There are MANY, MANY RESOURCES for helping people become better speakers.

There are MANY, MANY RESOURCES 

for helping people become better speakers.

This blog contains some info I have tried to share with many young or beginning speakers since the early 1990s when I was the MENTOR coordinator for my TM 1779 Club in Athens and for the Georgia Speakers Association's Mentor Program (now NSA-Georgia Chapter).

Over the past 35 to 40 years the TED CONFERENCES have become a global phenomenon.

There are over 1,000 TED Talks or TEDx Talks on YouTube and other websites that can be watched and studied.

Many successful and moderately successful professional speakers have written books about SPEAKING.

The NSA - National Speakers Association website has many links to its members websites that include many from hundreds to over a 1,000 sample speech videos to study

Toastmasters, International also has links to many of its contest winners' speeches

plus their own individual websites.

The key for developing your own skills is to start a realistic, workable plan and schedule for your personal and professional development of

Speaking Skills

Platform Skills

Training Skills

Marketing Skills

Promotion Skills

Sales Skills

Client Development & Relationship Skills

Contact Skills

and much more

Here are two examples of the seemingly endless supply of resources to choose from

NSA Speakers such as

Jim Cathcart

Patricia Fripp

and 

many others have books webinars, podcasts, traveling workshops and seminars or intensive BOOT CAMPS and NSA puts on workshops for specialized topics related to speaking and the running of a speaking business in addition to its annual Convention and Winter Workshop.