Before speaking, take into account the following:

1. Age, gender and race of the audience.
2. The number of people listening to you.
3. Their reason for coming and their expectations.
4. The kind of occasion for which the speech is happening.

Shifting you...

• We normally do not practise before leading a Zoom Meeting or a presentation.
• We need to practise in front of the mirror even though it feels awkward, as it will help us sound authentic on the stage.
• Memorizing every word is not a great idea as it sounds robotic, but do ens...

People listen for their own wellbeing, not for others. They are focussed on their own happiness, most of the time. In his celebrated book Art Of Rhetoric, Aristotle lists out a few things that the audience cares about, regardless of what your topic is: their own health, ...

The ability to communicate is the most crucial skill we have.

In Ancient Greece, where educators and philosophers invented language theory, public speaking was a teachable and learnable skill. They didn’t diagnose a shy person suffering from ‘speech anxiety’ to be a ba...

For most of us, education has been a 15 to a 20-year experience reading, writing and solving problems on paper, due to our society increasingly becoming information and knowledge oriented.

We are unprepared to speak publicly, something which is a central activity in our lives. We need to...