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When you know how to overcome your public speaking anxiety then you are on course for public speaking success at your next conference, just like Theresa May.

As a conference speaker you really do need to be prepared for public speaking problems. Because they can happen and your audience will look to you for conference leadership.

An interminably long speech from Vladimir Putin just goes to show how to give a lengthy speech and still get your audience to love you. The answer seems to be multimedia. Or missiles, perhaps?

Knowing how to deal with hecklers during your speech is a great technique. Jacob Rees-Mogg showed off the technique at the 2017 Conservative Party Conference in Manchester, albeit the hecklers began their protest before he’d started speaking.

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.

Researchers have found that the aroma of Rosemary oil has a positive impact on our ability to remember things. That has to be good news for any public speaker wanting to know how to improve their memory before their speech.

When it comes to speech distractions we’ve probably encountered them all. Well, so we thought. Mobile phone speech interruptions are always common. And so are speech problems with hecklers or protesters. But, we’ve never heard of a speech distracted by a tie. Until now. The speaker was Aengus Ó Snodaigh, a member of Parliament in Ireland. And […]

A Transparency International annual lecture should have been an ideal platform for a Baroness Scotland speech to discuss a £338,000 refurbishment bill.

Having some dress sense and knowing how to choose the right clothes for a presentation doesn’t have to be hard. Fortunately there aren’t any rules that tell us what to wear, or indeed, what not to wear when we give a presentation.

Every now and again as a public speaker you can anticipate an interruption during your speech. And for Bill Clinton the same probably holds true. This week his own phone became the interruption during a speech in Iowa.