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Several years ago, it occurred to leaders of the Professional Speechwriters Association that speechwriters’ clients didn’t necessarily understand what a successful collaboration looks like between speaker and speechwriter. So we …
Hey, I run the Executive Communication Council. It’s part of our charter, “To showcase to the business community and to society at large, what great leadership communication is, and the profound impact …
Every year at the Professional Speechwriters Association’s Speechwriting School, the faculty gets asked: How do I animate and effervesce my wooden, flat speaker? Bring in a speaking coach, we say. …
Because I run the Professional Speechwriters Association, people assume I must write speeches myself. I tell them that I actually hate writing speeches so much, I founded the PSA just to …
When I see a “behind the scenes” story about the making of a speech, I groan. As head of the Professional Speechwriters Association, I realize it’s my job to read …
A new year’s letter to members of the Professional Speechwriters Association. Figured everyone in the professional rhetoric business could use this, this year. —DM *** Dear PSA Member, Perhaps because …
Dear Executive Communication Colleague, Readers sometimes question the quotes I include in the Executive Communication Report newsletter, assuming I endorse the sentiments. I ask them to read the regular header carefully—especially …
Last summer our organization facilitated a founders’ meeting of the Higher Education Leadership Communication Council—a group of people who help higher-ed leaders communicate. Just in the nick of time, it seems. …
It was all those TED Talks that did it— that made it seem mandatory for every leader (and thus every leader’s speechwriter) to come up with a perfect “origin story.” …
In response to a Professional Speechwriters Association survey, a speechwriter identified a problem in the leadership communication business these days: “Excited utterances and spontaneous speeches being confused for actual exec …