Protect Yourself from Identity Theft

Tips to help protect yourself from our nation's fastest growing crime. 

The Art of Evaluation

Handout to accompany the "Art of Evaluation" presentation DVD.

Prioritize Your Week

By listing the five most important things you need to accomplish each day, you will accomplish more each week than you ever thought possible.

Tips for Testifying

A short outline of tips to help anyone called to testify in court.

Daily Goal Achievement sheet

To achieve your goals, you need to work towards them every day.  Use this planning sheet from the "52 Week Goal Achievement Program" to keep yourself on track as you work towards your goals.

Approach Point Cross Examination Sheet

If you use the approach point method of cross-examination, these sheet will help you organize your cross. [PDF] [Word]

The Speech Idea Workshop

Think you don't have anything to say?  Wrong!  You've got dozens of speech ideas that can captivate audiences.  [Handout to accompany the "Speech Idea Workshop."]

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Audio

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3 Tips for Speech Evaluation

Want to improve your own speaking skills?  The teacher always learns more than the student - learn to effectively evaluate a speaker, and you'll be on the fast track to speaking success.

Selecting Your Topic

Wondering where your next speech will come from?  Need to generate some speech ideas?  Listen to these quick tips for generating new speech ideas.

Creating an Introduction

Don't blame the emcee   for the terrible introduction in this clip.  I wrote the worst introduction I could think of, and then wrote it on a napkin to make sure it was difficult to read, too.  You'll learn the importance of a well-crafted introduction, and also learn how to create a more powerful introduction for your next speech.

Six Tips for Improving Your Direct Examination

Recorded live at the National College of District Attorneys.  Six quick tips to make your direct examination come to life: Headlines, Suspense, Vantage Points, Reverse Leading, The Present Tense, Exit Lines