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by Rob Cottingham
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  • Getting back on track

    May 5, 2023 · 8 min

    Getting carried off on a tangent in an interview or Q&A session can be risky. At best, you spend the time you wanted to use getting your message across on some other topic. At worst, you end up talking about sensitive, damaging topics that…

  • Why you need to rehearse — and how

    March 30, 2023 · 8 min

    Rehearsal doesn't kill spontaneity — it gives you the confidence that lets you be spontaneous. You don't just know the material: you know its emotional and literal meaning,nd you've made your big choices about how you're going to convey…

  • Ep. 73 No more boring speaker introductions!

    June 23, 2022 · 12 min

    Before a speaker steps up to the microphone, there's usually somebody who introduces them. And that introduction could be helping to set the stage and prime the audience. But too many introductions are just tedious recitals of a speaker's…

  • Dana Rubin is Speaking While Female

    March 1, 2022 · 26 min

    Pick up a collection of speeches or quotations from history, and chances are most of those voices belong to men. That's changing. More women are claiming their time at the microphone. And it turns out the oratory of the past was a lot…

  • Ep. 71 Get out of your lane

    October 18, 2021 · 10 min

    You've probably heard the expression "stay in your lane." And sometimes that's good advice — but right now, we're facing global emergencies on an unprecedented scale, and we need voices speaking out for truth, democracy, science and our…

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  • Find Your Red Thread with Tamsen Webster

    July 29, 2021 · 22 min

    There probably isn't a speechwriter or speaker alive today who hasn't heard the advice "Tell a story." But you want them to do more than listen. You want to tell the kind of story your audience will turn into their story. Crafting that…

  • Seven deadly sins of online presentation (part two)

    July 20, 2021 · 8 min

    Well over a year into remote presentations as the norm, people are getting pretty good at it... but some mistakes are still cropping up again and again. Last time, we looked at four of the seven deadly sins of online presentations. This…

  • Seven deadly sins of online presentations (part one)

    July 20, 2021 · 8 min

    Well over a year into remote presentations as the norm, people are getting pretty good at it... but some mistakes are still cropping up again and again. In this two-episode series, we'll meet the seven deadly sins of online presentations…

  • Avoiding plagiarism: Are your words really your own?

    June 25, 2021 · 7 min

    Sure, you and I would never take someone else's writing and pretend it was our own. But not all plagiarism is deliberate. It can be surprisingly easy to steal someone else's words by accident. Plagiarism scandals have caught up leaders…

  • Keep the "thought" in thought leadership

    June 4, 2021 · 11 min

    So many leadership communications mistakes come down to one thing: not having a clear goal and a roadmap to get there. That's especially true when it comes to areas where leaders aren't as familiar with the subject matter. This episode…

  • What we've learned from a year of remote presentations

    April 28, 2021 · 10 min

    Public speaking has changed a lot in the past year, since conference halls and auditoriums went dark and we traded stages and amplifiers for webcams and video. But those changes can help us be better speakers, when the time comes to return…

  • I now pronounce you... correctly

    March 16, 2021 · 5 min

    Mispronouncing someone's name from the stage is a lot more than a minor screwup. Here's why speakers should never go to the mic without knowing the correct pronunciation of every name they mention — and why speechwriters should never let…

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About the show

I've worked as a speechwriter, presentation coach and communication strategist—not to mention delivering my share of speeches. From speechwriting and speaking to traditional and social media, here's my best advice on how leaders can communicate to change how audiences see the world.