One of the hardest public speaking challenges is making a pre-planned speech sound conversational, relaxed and off-the-cuff. (Just listen to radio DJs and podcasters try to "casually" read an advert script, many of them fail to give this a natural feel). Many of my clients have a concern about sounding scripted. But the answer to achieving a sincere and in-the-moment delivery style is not to practise your speech or presentation less! We need the practice phase before we can enter the...

Communication, the speaking kind, has a tonne of variables. What should I do with my hands when giving a speech? How much eye contact should I give to my audience during a presentation? Is my voice confident enough when I am speaking in meetings? How do I keep the attention of my audience if my content is boring? It can be difficult to know which ones you should experiment with and which should be left well alone. This uncertainty gets amplified when it comes to 1:many communication....