TJ Walker

Public speaking tip of the day: if you want to dramatically improve your public speaking skills, learn how to be a better listener. The best speakers in the world are often the best listeners. They listen very carefully and search for question someone might give them before they speak in every little nuance. They mean…

Never tell a reporter that ‘it is off the record’. You can ask them to put something off the record but you cannot tell them to do so. You may see it happen in movies and TV shows but that is not how it happens in the real world. A reporter does not have to

If you work in a medium to large sized organization, how is it that the people inside the organization describe what the organization does for the rest of the world? If everyone says something a little differently, chances are that you have a problem. I work with a lot of national trade organizations and professional

Public speaking question of the day: this comes from one of my online students who says, “TJ, I a a second grade teacher. How do I handle giving a lecture when my students are doing rude things such as sleeping, walking up to get water without asking first, or dropping pencil boxes on purpose. I