News About Public Speaking

This Jeremy Corbyn speech in Coventry today depends on a knowledge and understanding of the indefinite article. Because our membership of a customs union is going to be different to our membership of the customs union. Clear?

Test yourself this year with the Time To Market Christmas Quiz 2017 filled with questions from the Art of presentation blog.

Public speakers of all descriptions ask, “how long should your speech be?” Well, it really does depend on what your audience is prepared to accommodate. And, of course, how long you can physically stand up and speak. Because it takes a toll.

A Boris Johnson speech at the Conservative party conference firmly met all expectations for an energetic and uplifting event.

A recycled speech by the Environment Minister, Michael Gove, revealed familiar Brexit arguments at the Tory party conference in Manchester yesterday in a virtuoso performance.

Sometimes you just know what not to say in your speech. But then, there are others who seem blindly oblivious to the words they use in their speech. Fikile Mbalula, South Africa’s Police Minister has a firm grip on the matter in hand, yet seems oblivious to the reach of his words.

There’s always very good cause to use humour in the conference speech. But you have to use humour well, with plenty of speaker style and practised confidence.

Most political party conferences are marked by their conference leadership speech. Dramatic and rhetorical, they inspire the party faithful and speak to the rest of the country. Your main conference speech can achieve the same results.

What is a good speed for a speech? That’s the question we asked when we listened to slow and steady Keir Starmer’s Labour Party Conference 2017 speech.

The story this week is that the former Prime Minister, David Cameron, had to snatch some speech practice to ready himself to say the word “vagina” in his speech at the 2014 Girl Summit in Walworth.