When you’re giving the speech to an audience, they probably won’t be asking questions directly. Knowing what questions your friend asked, however, can give you insight into how they’re thinking.

After a few minutes, the answer was clear — he had been asked to give a speech on topics that, while he understood and could cover, weren’t really his sweet spot. They didn’t get him excited.

Most of us have attended conferences, meetings, speeches or any organization’s get-together and have been presented with a motivational speaker -- someone who will pump us up, get us excited and ...

A great speech isn't just about soaring rhetoric. It's about structure, timing, message, and other key components. Here's how to write and give a great speech the next time you're asked to do so.

Someone giving a speech for a Toastmasters competition has a different objective from someone presenting a slideshow on new company software, ...

In the last 30 years, Grenny has delivered more than 3,000 speeches. Until he got used to giving speeches, ... give someone a quote to read and ask them to help break down its relevance, ...

As someone who once wrote speeches for a few politicians, ... Giving a speech about democracy in downtown Philadelphia and bringing your own Marines is not something I recall ever seeing.

The class starts out with Joels playing a videotape of someone giving a speech-and committing about 30 basic public speaking blunders. Students then take a crack at pointing out the bloopers.

But the truth is, if I were given the choice between someone being allowed to speak to a packed house about how awful I am, and denying that person his right to give that speech, then I’d easily ...

After freezing up while giving that speech as a young man, he’d done what all of us can do–he put in the work and, over time, got better. From the book SAY IT WELL: Find Your Voice, Speak Your ...

The final night’s speech needed to give the audience at the convention what it wanted (above all, simply more Trump, in this case much more) while also diluting Trump’s image as a troublemaker.