Article by Doug Stevenson

1. Use your audience as a test group if you have a point to make about human behavior. Take a simple poll of the people in the room and use the immediate results to illustrate your point. Make it fun. I poll my audience about how they deal with change. Based on how many times they’ve moved, changed jobs and fallen in and out of love, they fall into one of three categories – the walkers, joggers or sprinters. Polls can be used in many ways. They create audience involvement and lift the energy in the room. Make them short and sweet, and simple to understand.

2. Give clear instructions. I’ve witnessed some embarrassing moments when a speaker had not planned or written out their instructions for a group exercise. The result was chaos. Write out your instructions and try them out loud, with a few friends, before you use them on an audience.

Read the rest of this entry

Article by Robert Vail

In order to achieve quality sound, speaker manufacturers must do more than simply assemble the required components, although they may only appear to be regular electronics. Speaker manufacturers must achieve the best balance of the elements such as amplification and crossover points to name but two, in order to achieve quality sound. It’s the quality of sound that sells all speakers. Usually, speaker manufacturers count heavily on their long history of manufacturing. Of Course, the longer one that manufacturer has been manufacturing speakers, the more developed their technology will be.

The prospective speaker manufacturer has to make a decision about what kind of speaker that they want to produce. They have to determine if they will manufacture car speakers, indoor/outdoor speakers or speakers for movie theaters. They also have to determine the method of distribution. For example, will they sell their speakers in their own stores, or produce and supply speakers to other stores. In addition, they have to determine who will supply them with components including voice coils, cone papers, and magnets, and for what time period.

Read the rest of this entry

Question by loveashley21: Which is a more profitable business idea a soul food restuarant, photography studio,or become a public speaker
Which is a more profitable business idea a soul food restuarant, photography studio,or become a public speaker

Best answer: Read the rest of this entry

Question by brickity hussein brack: When Clinton or her supporters say that Obama is nothing more than a good speaker, is it pure jealousy?
They have basically the same platform, roughly the same degree of experience, just different voices and thus different approaches to getting things done once in office. If you ask me, when Clinton accuses Obama of being stuck in the flowery language of campaign, and unable to switch to the prose of actual policy, it’s nothing more than jealousy stemming from the fact that she is such a train wreck of a public speaker.

Best answer: Read the rest of this entry

Question by tribes: Just how much more patriotic must the speaker become to earn your business?
You gotta love this, and more to come.

Best answer:

Answer by Bubba
Nice oufit.

Add your own answer in the comments!

Article by Marla Miller

In today’s tough economic times, it is more important than ever to have happy and competent employees. With major cutbacks, you have to do more with less–less money and less people–so investing wisely in your employees helps you to build teams that meet your business goals.

This has led businesses and corporations from around the country to invest in team building adventures, retreats and activities instead of sticking employees in training sessions or meetings. It is considered money well spent because these activities break down barriers, create a greater interaction and motivate employees to work smarter by working together to achieve a common goal.

Read the rest of this entry

Question by Uncle Benito: Isn’t it humorous, and more than a little hypocritical, that Dems are screaming to see the facts and figures..?
…of the Republican economic plan, considering that 1) their entire platform in 2008 seemed to have consisted of “Hope and Change”, and 2) their Speaker of the House told us we (and even more humorously, SHE) would have to wait until after the Obamacare bill was passed in order to find out what was included?

What is their sudden interest in specifics when they were MORE than happy to engage in policy making which can best be described as “making it up as we go”?

Read the rest of this entry

Abraham Lincoln was well recognized in his day for his sense of humor, and usually told funny stories to engage and earn the trust of his audience.Throughout the Civil War, he at times visited Washington area hospitals to lift the wounded soldiers’ spirits. Right after 1 such visit, a journalist entered a hospital to find infantrymen boisterously laughing and talking about the president. He discovered it curious to see injured men to be seemingly so healthy. “You should be extremely slightly wounded,” he said to the soldier.”Yes,” the soldier replied, “Extremely slightly. I have only lost 1 leg, and I’d be glad to lose the other, if I could hear some much more of ‘Old Abe’s’ stories.” What Honest Abe knew, and what much more individuals should learn, is that humor is an incredibly powerful tool that can make anybody happy and attentive even in the most attempting of circumstances.

When somebody engages you with humor, you genuinely want to listen, and soak up more of what they are saying. If humor can interact and encourage somebody subjected to Civil War era medicine, it can interact and inspire anyone. And that’s why hiring a motivational humorous speaker makes great sense! These days, Top Change Management Speakers use the massive power of comedy to make individuals laugh and improve private prospective.

Read the rest of this entry

Hello Ladies,

You can have better luck when looking for a job, trying for a promotion, or hoping to expand your business, with the use of a good luck charm. You might be able to have that big sale, earn that huge commission, or win that sales contest. Perhaps you can get that business loan, or have a cash windfall with the use of a good luck attracting charm or amulet, such as the popular Indian Medicine Bag!

Good Luck Charms have been around for thousands of years, and people have turned to them for a variety of reasons. The biggest leading people turn to good luck charms, is for money matters. Wanting or needing more money, is a common reason why people today, might turn to a good luck charm, even though they are always sold for entertainment purposes.

Read the rest of this entry

Having charisma is an important quality in any leadership position, and this is often overlooked by traditional leadership standards.  But having charisma is a very important quality to any successful leader, and will help open doors for you that would most likely be shut otherwise.  Charisma is a quality that all highly successful people must develop, or fine tune once in their lives, to maximize their success in leadership roles, as well as use it to gain a great advantage over their competition.  In many leadership classes and manuals, not much time is given to the subject of “charisma”, but with the right charisma and charm, you can get the cooperation and support of people in almost anything you do.

Charisma can be explained as an indefinable personal magnetism that helps draw people to you, and makes them want to cooperate with you and work with you to accomplish your dreams.  It is a kind of charm that goes over and above the status quo of leadership.  Charisma gets people excited.  It is almost like a personal magic that draws support and enthusiasm to you.  An experienced leader with a certain level of charisma has a great advantage over some of his counterparts who can’t seem to motivate and inspire his followers the same way a charismatic leader can.  Charisma helps to build confidence, and if your leader is confident and absolutely sure of himself, then that will be passed on to his employees and so on.

Read the rest of this entry