Public Speaking

“Attending a committee meeting and going to the toilet are in many ways similar. In both the places you go sit down, make a lot of noise and finally the matter is dropped.” I haven’t yet used [...]

Both of them in the picture above may not have anything to do with public speaking, but in India we celebrate ‘Guru Poornima’ today by expressing our gratitude to our teachers in various avatars, [...]

Speaking tip: BE BRIEF ! Like a preacher who was popular with his congregation explained his success as the result of a silent prayer which he offered each time he took the pulpit:  [...]

Communication is a dicey business. Unless what you think, say and what the others understand are aligned, communication can create embarassing sceanrios like it happened to an old mountain woman. [...]

Recently I used this anecdote to amplify my point about the need to be agile and move swiftly by anticipating customer needs in a session on ‘ Change Faster’ for a group of marketing [...]

I recently spoke to a group of Insurance sales professionals in Dubai. All high performing achievers. And strangers except their Head, who had invited me. It was important to connect and build [...]

Last Friday I was the Emcee at my Toastmasters club and opened with these lines.“When our President Jindow Joseph asked me to be the MC, I asked him ‘why me?’and he said [...]

I recently spoke to an audience at 12.45pm. Lunch buffet was being laid out in the adjacent room and with with spicy aroma wafting into the room, I HAD to do something to hook them and opened [...]

I spoke on “Unleash your Humor Quotient” at TEDx Dubai as the last speaker.Here is the video link http://vimeo.com/19594461 I welcome your feedback.

Doc Blakely, a Toastmaster and celebrity humorist gave a rousing start to his speech with ” a professional speaker should have three looks Grey hair for that distinguished lookA paunch for [...]