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Speechwriting tips to help make sure you don’t send your audience to sleep

Dawn Kofie · February 26, 2017 · Leave a Comment

Speechwriting tips to help make sure you don’t send your audience to sleep

Have you ever listened to a speech so rambling and tedious that you felt a tidal wave of relief when it finally ended? Yup, me too. These speechwriting tips will make sure that you never subject anyone to anything that torturous. They’ll help you engage, entertain and delight your audiences. (Instead of making them feel […]

Filed Under: Writing Advice Tagged With: Dan Pink, motivation, speeches, speechwriting, TED Talks

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