Top Tips

Discover essential techniques for delivering confident, engaging speeches, covering structure, delivery, audience connection, and handling nerves effectively.

Five Things to Avoid When Making a Speech

So, you’ve been asked to make that speech and you’ve said you’ll do it. Great, but before you even begin to gather together all your thoughts and stori...

How to End a Speech Memorably

People remember two parts of a speech more than any other: the opening and the ending. Everything in between tends to blur into a general impression of "that...

Top Tips for Dealing With Sensitive Subjects

It’s a very rare – and down-right unpleasant – human being who maliciously goes out of his or her way to give offence or cause deliberate upset to her...

Top Tips for Keeping Your Audience's Attention

At some time in our lives, most of us have had to sit through one of those interminably boring speeches where you can just feel your eyes glazing over and yo...

Top Tips for Nervous Speech Makers

Most people view the prospect of giving a speech as a fairly daunting one, so if you’re feeling a little nervous, don’t worry – you’re not alone! Eve...

Top Tips for Speaking at Happy Events

Of all the kinds of events at which anyone can be called upon to give a speech, happy ones really should be the easiest and the most fun to do. After all, th...

Top Tips for Speaking at Sad Events

Speaking at any sad event is always a difficult thing to do, whether it’s the memorial to someone who’s lived a long and full life, the funeral of a chil...

Top Tips for Writing a 'killer' Speech

There’s a fine distinction between a good speech and a great one – but in the end it largely comes down to one thing. A week, a month or even a year on,...