by Rob Cottingham | Sep 28, 2015 | Speechwriting
Sometimes, there’s just no fighting geography. And the truth is, there’s no faster or better feedback on how a speech you wrote goes over than to be in the audience when it does.That’s often hard, especially if the speech is in another city, or if your speechwriting... 
by Rob Cottingham | Sep 25, 2015 | Speechwriting
Being in the audience when a speaker delivers a speech you’ve written is great, for all kinds of reasons. But it does hold one big danger: being asked, “Did you write it?”See if you can spot where this conversation at a banquet table after a luncheon... 
by Rob Cottingham | Sep 16, 2015 | Speaking, Speechwriting
I recently saw a speech by someone clearly accustomed to the public spotlight and comfortable on the stage. She had an important message to deliver about a profound social injustice. She spoke with authority and confidence.And she spent nearly all twenty minutes of... by Rob Cottingham | Sep 14, 2015 | Everything Else
Everything froze for a moment as the full realization struck Commander Akal: the altimeter had been sabotaged. She didn’t have five hundred metres of room to play with; she had perhaps one hundred and twenty, and that number — like the landing craft — was... by Rob Cottingham | Sep 10, 2015 | Conferences and workshops
(Don’t blame them for the “CRM” cartoon — that one’s mine.)
