Are your leaders leading? Here’s how to know for sure
Executive communication and leadership guru Brent Filson gives 27 questions to consider.
Americans at their best
Speechwriters looking to capture American empathy and spiritual generosity will find lots of it in a new collection of condolence letters to Jackie Kennedy.
“Writing for the Ear,” taken to the extreme
Nobody should appreciate this old Victor Borge gag on “phonetic punctuation” more than speechwriters.
Trust Deficit: A Challenge We Must Face Even After Economy Grows Strong
Address by SUSAN C. KEATING, President and CEO, National Foundation for Credit Counseling. Delivered to the Belizean Grove social club, Miami, Fla., Jan. 28, 2010.
VIDEO: How body language works, and how to make it work for you
Top-flight speaking coach Tom Mucciolo offers his usual fascinating analysis of what our body language communicates (whether we know it or not)
We want to know: How (in the world) do you figure out where to place your speaker?
The possibilities aren’t quite endless, but for executive communication pros trying to match multiple speakers with hundreds of potential speaking platforms, they might as well be. How do other executive …
And the winner for best Oscar acceptance speech goes to …
… Sandra Bullock! Any arguments?
Congratulations to winners of the 2010 Cicero Speechwriting Awards
All speechwriters would do well to download for free and read These Vital Speeches: The Best of the 2010 Cicero Speechwriting Awards. This is the state of the art. (Do …
President Obama delivers a pretty good ‘Here’s the &#&!@ing deal’ speech on healthcare
In every consensus-driven organization from the corporate boardroom down to the most namby-pamby nonprofit, there does come a time when the leader needs to say: All right, I’ve heard from …
How to “after-market” a speech
When the applause dies, the job begins. A speechwriter speaks on speechwriting, then begins spreading her message beyond lecture hall.