Why We Don’t Send Technical Talent To Speak At Conferences And Should

The 20-Minute Rule for Great Public Speaking — On Attention Spans and Keeping Focus

Guest Post: Start With A Story

Karen Catlin, Advocate for Women in the Tech Industry

The root of the problem

About 1 week ago, I was watching my favorite series and there was a moment when psychologist asked his patient to think about the root of her problem. The main reason for that was — no one can solve his/her problem unless he or she understand the very first time when it appeared to…

Uh, like, you know

Four months ago, I decided I wanted to eliminate three words from my speech: Uh, like, and you know.

These words (and fillers like them) 1) make the speaker convinced they are actually saying something of substance, and 2) prevent the speaker from making the mental…

On speaking, emotions, and including others

This past weekend I had the great opportunity to give a talk at JSConf Last Call…

Lessons Learned from My First Year Public Speaking

Roughly a year ago I started my foray into paid…

Teaching Students About The Real World

What I learnt from returning to University and running short lectures for design students

About my day ! :)

Today our group defended the project of Microeconomics. We spoke about our project using PowerPoint presentation.📃 📑 📊 📈 📉 📄

In my speech I tried to use the tools that I mentioned in previous posts. I felt myself as confident as I can, however I don’t know if I…

Gremlins in the machine — stage tech will fail

In my role as a coach for other presenters I just ran…