10 Things to Help Those Shaky Hands When Public Speaking. I was so bad at shaking my hands uncontrollably when public speaking that my nickname became Shaking Stephens (as detailed in my talk on TED.com here). The shaking went through my hands, into my shoulders and...
How to nail panels? Let’s do a panel they say…won’t that be fun. The majority of the time it won’t. Panels are usually emotionally traumatising for everyone involved, unless you have comedians involved or a speaker using their techniques. As a...
Books talks can be fantastic or an emotionally traumatising experience for writers. You however control more of the elements than you think and a few changes can make a huge difference. Since I wrote my wee book I have done way too may events, especially in light of...
(Originally Published in Inc): 23 Tips From Comedians to Be Funnier in Your Next Presentation Former biologist Tim Lee takes the stage at TEDx for the second time this year. Lee’s medium of choice: the all too often mind-numbingly boring PowerPoint presentation,...
Your at an fancy event and and the host scans the room before a questioning gaze lands on you. Finger pointing expectantly in your direction she utters the words, “you…tell me a funny story.” All eyes focus on you as your mind races but finds...
Rubbish Content Delivered Beautifully Is Still Rubbish. If you take the stage confidently, move your arms around enthusiastically, make eye contact with everyone, smile, maintain and open and welcoming posture, power pose and walk off again without saying a single...
Why TED Talks Continue to Dazzle While Corporate Presentations Continue to Bore. TED has raised the bar for business talks to never before witnessed levels of information, enlightenment and entertainment. Many of their most popular talks are actually funnier than the...
Next month I’ll be leading a workshop on becoming a better and more engaging public speaker at the fantastic Leade.rs Conference in Paris. The man behind it Loic Le Meur (a great speaker himself) asked me to sum up what I feel makes a great speaker. There are...
Comedy Techniques From The Best TED Talks. There’s a good chance you don’t want to be a comedian. It’s pretty scary. I can tell you that first hand from a year plus doing it in researching my book. More likely is that you would like to do a TED talk , a TED...
Presidential Funny That You Can Replicate. If you are still on the fence about using humor in your talks take some reassurance from President Obama crushing it again on stage at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. It even got a write up in Rolling Stone. The...
