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...
Tim Urban knows that procrastination doesn’t make sense, but like many of us he’s never been able to shake his habit of waiting until the last minute to get things done. This year he stole the show at the TED mainstage event in Vancouver and delivered a...
1 Trick to Finish Your Next Talk in Style. You finish your talk and the presenter takes back the microphone. “Any questions for the speaker?” Awkward silence . . . “Anyone at all? Oh, you, sir, with your hand raised,” the host says with a...