Speaking & Confidence

This is a living collection of resources that I share with my Personal Effectiveness MBA class and

Coaching clients for developing public speaking, presentation skills, executive presence & confidence.

Please contact me here if you would like to discuss how you may go further in this topic one-to-one or as a group.

Please use the comments section at the foot of the page to suggest resources you have found useful on this topic and I'll add them for the benefit of others.

‘There is no lack of readers and listeners; it is for us to produce something worth being written and heard.’ — Pliny the Younger

Self-Assessment

Assessment: What’s Feeding Your Fear of Public Speaking?

Articles

How to speak in public

5 Tips that Will Make You a Better Storyteller

Let’s bring humour to work (no kidding)!

Narrative Genres in Error and Failure Stories: A Multimodal Study of F**kup Nights Videos

Storytelling in Business: How to Tell Engaging Stories

Workplace ‘impostor thoughts’ may have a genuine upside

Get Psyched: How Time and Situations Shape Our Communication

5 Communication Practices to Boost Teamwork, Productivity, and Morale - TLNT

PowerPoint® Presentation Flaws and Failures: A Psychological Analysis

The Science of Strong Business Writing

How A Position Of Power Can Change Your Voice

Our Addiction to Charismatic Leaders Needs to Stop

4 Key Steps to Preparing for a Business Presentation

7 Leadership Lessons Men Can Learn from Women

Exploring what an interruption is in conversation

This is how to tell a crisis recovery story (while leaving out the doomsday narrative)

Don’t Focus on the Most Expressive Face in the Audience

Gravitas Is a Quality You Can Develop

The Hidden Social Advantage

This is how tiny changes in words you hear impacts your thinking

How to Cure Your Dread of Public Speaking

How to Become an Authentic Speaker

When You Pitch an Idea, Gestures Matter More Than Words

Kinesthetic Speaker: Putting Action into Words

The Power of Talk: Who gets heard and why

How to Give a Killer Presentation

How to Manage Your Fear of Public Speaking

Matt Abrahams: Tips and Techniques for More Confident and Compelling Presentations

Clear writing mean clear thinking

What Do You Mean I Can't Write?

Necessary Art of Persuasion

Change the Way You Persuade

How to Pitch a Brilliant Idea

Learning Charisma

How to Stop Saying “Um,” “Ah,” and “You Know”

What's Your Story?

Want to provide better feedback, introduce people, or master small talk? Try this technique.

Be Better at Spontaneous Speaking

Telling a good innovation story

5 Ways to Project Confidence in Front of an Audience

Hit the Mark: Make Complex Ideas Understandable

6 Ways to Look More Confident During a Presentation

How Consultants Project Expertise and Learn at the Same Time

How to Tell Your Team That Organizational Change Is Coming

The dark side of charisma

The Science of Pep Talks

How to Identify and Tell Your Most Powerful Stories

Nancy Duarte: How to Get Others to Adopt Your Recommendation

Make the Most of Your Virtual Communications

The Body Language Mistakes You Don't Realize You're Making at Work, According to Experts

How to Blow a Presentation to the C-Suite

How to Get Others to Adopt Your Recommendation

To Give a Great Presentation, Distill Your Message to Just 15 Words

How I Overcame My Fear of Public Speaking

Six Steps to Communicating Strategic Priorities Effectively

Humour: 36 Signs You Pulled this Presentation Together at the Last Minute

Early Edutainment: The Behavioral Scientist’s Guide to Fairy Tales

Are you outspoken at work? How to use your voice — and not get fired

The Secret to Great Communication: Be Like Aristotle

To Overcome Your Insecurity, Recognize Where It Really Comes From

The Confidence Trick

The culture of overconfidence

Breathing Is the Key to Persuasive Public Speaking

Improve Your Public Speaking with a More Effective Mindset

4 Small but Powerful Mental Shifts to Become More Confident

Do you say "Sorry" too much ?

Tap into the power to persuade by using these 6 techniques of clear and compelling speech

These gestures will improve your next presentation

Stories Can Be Powerful Persuasive Tools. But It’s Important to Understand When They Can Backfire.

Choose Charts Everyone Understands | Nancy Duarte

Yes, there is a right way to write an email — here are some simple rules

How to Get Others to Adopt Your Recommendation | Nancy Duarte

To Overcome Your Fear of Public Speaking, Stop Thinking About Yourself

Five Common Communication Mistakes (And How to Fix Them)

How to Look and Sound Confident During a Presentation

10 principles for leadership presence

A Confidence Illusion: From Facade to Competency and Learning!

Irv Grousbeck: The Power of “I Don’t Know”

7 ways to be a better communicator — by tweaking your body language

Storytelling is a powerful communication tool — here’s how to use it, from TED

The skill you need now: presentation literacy

6 dos and don'ts for next-level slides, from a TED presentation expert

How to explain anything to anyone: 4 steps to clearer communication

Which of these habits is keeping you from being a great communicator?

Before your next presentation or speech, here's the first thing you must think about

Storytelling is a powerful communication tool

A Confidence Illusion: From Facade to Competency and Learning!

How to fight off your inner critic

Is There A Case for Lowering a Leader’s Confidence?

Something We Can All Agree On? Corporate Buzzwords Are the Worst.

Great Storytelling Connects Employees to Their Work

Books

I Have Something to Say

Speaking Up without Freaking Out

Confidence: Overcoming Low Self-Esteem, Insecurity, and Self-Doubt

The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking

The Right to Speak: Working with the Voice

Presence: How to Use Positive Energy for Success in Every Situation

The Charisma Myth: Master the Art of Personal Magnetism

Clear Leadership

The Introverted Leader: Building on Your Quiet Strength

Ultimate Presentations: Master the Art of Giving Fantastic Presentations and Wowing Employers

How to Handle a Question You Don’t Want to Answer

The Introvert's Guide to Great Presenting

How to Answer an Unanswerable Question

Audio

Recipes From the “Communication Kitchen

Executive Presence Isn’t One-Size-Fits-All. Here’s How to Develop Yours.

Podcast: Knock Your Next Business Presentation Out of the Park

Be confident. Not cocksure

It’s Not What You Say, It’s How You Say It: How to Communicate Power

Feelings First: How Emotion Shapes Our Communication, Decisions, and Experiences

Videos

Question Your Questions: How to Spark Creativity in Your Communication

Quick Think: How to Use Body Language When Confronting Objections

Public Speaking Without Fear

Richard Cox defines Executive Presence

Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are

Take Control of Your Nonverbal Communication

More Confident Compelling Presentations

Effective Body Language for Public Speaking

Body language, the power is in the palm of your hands

What the Pros Know About Public Speaking

Improve Your Leadership Presence

How to Tell a Story

How to speak so that people want to listen

Julian Treasure's Voice Exercises

How to Start a Speech

How to avoid death By PowerPoint

Audio: Power Cues - New Science on Influencing Others

Make the Most of Your Virtual Communications

3 Top Tips for Overcoming Nerves When Giving Business Presentations

Improve Your Presentation Skills by Avoiding These 3 Common Mistakes

Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader by Professor Herminia Ibarra

3 Steps to Better Presentation Visuals

How Apologies Kill Our Confidence

Speak like a leader

The 110 techniques of communication and public speaking

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. Maya Angelou

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