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It’s said that stand-up comedy gigs are like one night stands: you go out on-stage and try to seduce strangers with your wit. When speaking to people you don’t know, you can present a new, impressive persona to to them, much like a date with a stranger. Need some confidence? You’ve already got it, by deciding that […]

Your relationship with an audience can be very similar to that of an adult with children, and here’s why: 1.) You have to lead, as the experienced voice of authority on your subject. However, the balance of power can easily shift to the audience if they don’t respect you and decide to disrupt things, much

My Dad is a retired Church of England vicar (this feels like a kind of electronic micro-sermon), and being brought up by a man of God, opposite a house of God, I learnt some pretty useful things regarding public speaking from my Dad’s sermons. Such as don’t swear. A church service is a fairly strict

Novice public speakers ask me what the key is to confidence, and the simple answer is that it’s a result of applying yourself to the various aspects involved, many of which I give advice about in other posts on this blog. In short, there is no simple answer, because there’s no easy solution, there’s no

I watched ‘Gambit’ last night, a movie with Colin Firth and Cameron Diaz, and the excellent Pip Torrens. One of the trailers before the film was for ‘Robot and Frank’, which looks very good. I know this because the trailer showed the initial scenario, the characters, snappy lines of dialogue, major plot developments, and, well… everything. Movie