by Tina Blake | Mar 20, 2019 | Speech-writing
Martin Luther King Jr’s famed “I have a dream” speech lasted just seventeen minutes. Most of Shakespeare’s well-known soliloquies – Hamlet or Macbeth – are just a few dozen lines long; and Abraham Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg address on the back of a napkin. In other...
by Tina Blake | Nov 7, 2017 | Public Speaking Tips
It’s been a long time since 2004, but some of us might still remember Howard Dean’s scream. At the time, Dean was one of the Democratic candidates for president. He was trying to communicate passion – but, speaking at an otherwise anonymous event, he tried too hard,...
by Tina Blake | Sep 26, 2016 | Public Speaking Tips, Speech-writing
When I write about “public speaking,” I necessarily put the emphasis on talking. Delivering a presentation to an audience certainly involves an awful lot of performance techniques: voice, gesture, audience interaction. Without these practical skills no speech will...
