Category Archives for "Delivery Strategies"

The Energy Shift – One of the Most Neglected Yet Valuable Tools a Speaker Can Use

One of the ways to keep your audience on a wonderful roller-coaster ride and have them experience your message is to use the Energy Shift. When your energy shifts, so does your audiences and they stay connected to you as you take them to a new place. See the video below for how Energy Shifts […]

The Speech Delivery Tool that Every Speaker Needs

How would you like to keep your audience on the edge of their seats wondering what you’re going to say next? How would you like to feel a deeper connection with your audiences than you ever have in the past? How would you like to move on with this lesson? Me too, so let’s jump […]

Tools to Bring Your Stories to Life through Your Characters – Video Post

Question: How do you breathe life into a story? Answer: Characters Question: How do you make your characters feel real? Answer: Through subtle differences in voice, posture, positioning, expressions and dialogue. Here is your video lesson on using characters to connect deeper and laugh harder with your audience. My Update Since Creating This Video Nowadays […]

3 Speaker Tools for Mastering Character Interaction In Your Stories

One of the most difficult challenges for many speakers is to master character interactions inside of their stories. This is because they haven’t quite figured out the proper and natural mix of narration and dialogue. In my experience, too many speakers use way too much narration. As a result, they end up retelling the story […]

The Crescendo: A Critical Piece Most Speakers Unfortunately Leave Out

Many speakers tell stories that have some ups and downs and maybe even good emotional twists and turns, but they don’t often reach a crescendo. Crescendos are so important because they are defining moments that bring the audience’s energy to its highest point. Without them, your audience can easily be deflated.   What’s a crescendo? […]

How the Inner Game of Public Speaking can Make or Break your Speech (3 Scenarios and Solutions)

There is an inner game of public speaking. What’s going on inside of your mind determines the effectiveness of what comes out of your mouth. Some speakers simply memorize and recite their words and consider that a success. It’s not. That’s a memorization contest. If your mind is focused on remembering what comes next, then […]

The Most Important Delivery Tool for Speakers to Connect Deeper than Ever Before

The best way to connect with your audience is to have each person feel like you’re speaking directly to him or her. You can use the following tool to make a deeper connection with your audience than you have ever felt before. Click the video for the tool that changed my speaking life and can change […]

Do NOT Forget to Step Out to Bring Your Audience In (a Lesson in Dialogue)

If you follow me at all, you know I believe that dialogue is the heart of your story and therefore the heart of your speech. It breathes life into your speech because… It automatically brings the audience into the present moment of your scene It lets your audience members hear what you heard and see […]

3 Sacrifices that will Strengthen Every Speech You Give

My mother was an English teacher. My wife is an English teacher. Therefore, I try my best to be grammatically correct. However, in public speaking, I do not believe you must use good grammar at all times. There are times when I sacrifice correct grammar for something that is more important when I am speaking. […]