As Air Force technical instructor teaching electronics technology in the fifties, my audience was given. As an Internet technology seminar leader in the nineties, the same was true. Today I speak about speaking and living wherever I am asked, whenever I can. Mainly I am improving this website and adding to my YouTube channel for those who are interested.

Whenever someone asks me to speak to their group I gather the details, agree on the topic, then ask them to complete this sentence stem:

When you finish I want the audience to be thinking and feeling...

Getting the meeting organizer to identify the program goal, I can design a program which will serve both their needs and wants, the former filling the content portion of a program and the latter, the enjoyment.

Speaking Success: The best speakers design and deliver programs on audience appropriate topics to fit both the setting and situation.

Caution: The only thing worse than not being asked to speak to a group is agreeing to speak on the wrong topic to the wrong group. Agony!