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Career & Business
How to Ask for the Raise Out Loud
Pitching Is Storytelling With a Deadline
Presentation Tips for Call Center Managers: Making the Case
Presentation Tips for Construction Managers: Toolbox Talks
Presentation Tips for Customer Service Managers
Presentation Tips for Cybersecurity Managers
Presentation Tips for Engineering Managers: Talking Upward
Presentation Tips for Event Managers: Pitch and Run of Show
Presentation Tips for Facilities Managers: Capital Requests
Presentation Tips for Hotel Managers: Briefing and Reporting
Presentation Tips for IT Operations Managers
Presentation Tips for Inventory Managers: Stock and Cash
Presentation Tips for Maintenance Managers: Planned Downtime
Presentation Tips for Office Managers: Announcing Changes
Presentation Tips for Operations Managers: The Weekly Review
Presentation Tips for Plant Managers: The Site Town Hall
Presentation Tips for Procurement Managers
Presentation Tips for Product Development Managers
Presentation Tips for Production Managers: The Daily Meeting
Presentation Tips for Project Managers: The Status Update
Presentation Tips for Property Managers: Owners and Tenants
Presentation Tips for Quality Assurance Managers
Presentation Tips for Quality Control Managers
Presentation Tips for Restaurant Managers: The Pre-Shift
Presentation Tips for Retail Operations Managers
Presentation Tips for Site Managers: Briefing the Site
Presentation Tips for Software Development Managers
Presentation Tips for Store Managers: Huddles and Visits
Presentation Tips for Warehouse Managers: The Shift Briefing
Public Speaking Tips for Accounting Managers
Public Speaking Tips for Office Managers: The Farewell
Public Speaking Tips for Operations Managers: On the Floor
Public Speaking Tips for Sales Managers: The Team Talk
Speaking Up Is a Career Skill, Not a Personality Trait
The Meeting Where You Said Nothing
The Room You're Not in Yet
Community & Practice
AI Speech Coach or Toastmasters? What Each One Is Good For
Exprea vs Yoodli: Which One Fits How You Want to Practise?
How to Give Feedback That Someone Can Use
Impromptu Rounds: Why Two Minutes Is Harder Than Twenty
Nobody Improves Alone
Online Public Speaking Clubs: Count Your Speaking Minutes
Poised Is Shutting Down: What to Use Instead
The Case for Speaking Badly in Public
What Is an AI Speech Coach, and What Can It Do?
What Speaker Battles Taught Us About Feedback
Yoodli Alternatives: AI Speech Coach Apps Compared (2026)
Data & Method
Clarity: the axis with a formula
Energy: our weakest number
Filler Words Are Not the Same Word in Every Language
How Exprea Scores a Speaker
Intellect: counting the words you did not repeat
It Was Never the Speaker
Structure: the axis with no instrument
The Forgetting Curve and Why Repetition Matters
Tonality: measured, then judged
What Toastmasters Gets Right About Feedback
What We Measure in a Talk (and What We Don’t)
What a Good Listener Does, According to the Research
What a Meeting Transcript Shows About How You Speak
Why pace is not an axis
Your Nerves Are Less Visible Than They Feel
Finding Your Voice
Attention is the skill under all the other skills
Confidence Is a Byproduct, Not a Prerequisite
Difficult Conversations for Introverts: How to Prepare
Speaking English at Work as a Second Language
The Expression Gap: A Ferrari in a Blocked Driveway
The Story You Keep Not Telling
What Are You Actually Trying to Say?
You Do Not Have to Sound Like a TED Talk
Your Accent Is Not the Problem
Measurements
Speaking Rate in Words per Minute, Explained
What 693 Practice Recordings Tell Us About How People Speak
What is a pause?
What is filler rate?
What is hedging rate?
What is pitch variation?
What is vocal energy?
Presence & Delivery
Eye Contact Is for the Room, Not the Camera
Gesture Is Not Decoration: It Changes What You Say
Nobody Notices Your Nerves as Much as You Think
Power Posing, and What Happens When Research Gets Retested
Which Gestures Travel, and Which Don’t
Speeches That Lasted
"I Have a Dream": The Repetition That Built a Speech
271 Words, No Recording
A Talk Is Remembered by Its Peak and Its End
Before He Says Why
The Dream Is Not the Peak
The Pauses That Weren’t His
The Sentence the Machine Missed
The Structure Behind "We Shall Fight on the Beaches"
Two Minutes, 272 Words: What the Gettysburg Address Did
Where Our Instrument Broke
Where to Put Your Best Point
Why a Story Out-Argues a Claim
The Craft
Before / After: how to show that something made a difference
Every Good Talk Is Secretly an Argument
Feature, Advantage, Benefit (FAB), Explained
Hook, Story, Point: Stories With a Reason
How to Improve Public Speaking, Step by Step
How to Practise a Presentation Alone
How to Sound Professional When You Speak
Local to Global: how to make one idea matter at every scale
Monroe’s Motivated Sequence: The Five Steps
PREP: how to answer anything in under a minute
Past, Present, Future: how to tell the story of a change
Problem, Solution, Benefit: Proposing a Change
Pros, Cons, Verdict: Fair, but Taking a Side
STAR: how to answer "tell me about a time when..."
Stop Explaining. Start Showing.
The First Fifteen Seconds Decide the Next Fifteen Minutes
The Pause Is the Point
The Rule of Three: how to make an argument people remember
What? So What? Now What? The update people can act on
Why Your Talk Falls Apart in the Middle
The Science of Persuasion
Cialdini's Six (and a Half) Levers of Influence
The 93% Myth: What Mehrabian Measured
The First Number Said Out Loud Anchors Everything After
The Three Appeals: Why Aristotle Still Wins Arguments
The Two Routes to Changing Someone’s Mind
The Studies
Can Charisma Be Taught? The Twelve Tactics
Deep Conversations, Small Talk and Well-Being
Deliberate Practice: The 1993 Study, Retested
Executives’ Voices on Earnings Calls, Measured
Falling Intonation, Confidence and Persuasion
First Offers as Anchors: Why the First Number Wins
Get Excited: Why “I Am Excited” Beats “Calm Down”
How Pitch Delivery Sways Business Angels
How Repeated Speaking Lowers Speaking Anxiety
How a Confident Voice Makes the Same Words Win
Is Public Speaking Really More Feared Than Death?
Is Speaking Anxiety Inborn? Beatty et al. (1998)
It Doesn’t Hurt to Ask (2017), and Its Correction
Language Style Matching and Who Stays Together
Loneliness and Mortality: A 148-Study Meta-Analysis
Public Speaking, the Most Common Social Fear
Self-Talk by Name Before a Speech
Seven Principles for Teaching Presentation Skills
Sounds Like a Winner: Voice Pitch and Leadership
Speaking Fear and Dropping Out of University
Speaking Fear and Grades: What the Study Found
The 36 Questions That Made Strangers Close
The Babble Hypothesis: Does the Talker Lead?
The Liking Gap: People Like You More Than You Think
The Power of Feedback: Hattie and Timperley (2007)
The Surprising Power of Weak Ties
Virtual Reality Therapy for Fear of Public Speaking
Vocal Fry in the Labor Market: The 2014 Study
What 947 Speed Dates Reveal About Why People Click
What Makes a Leader Seem Charismatic
What Negotiating Your Starting Salary Is Worth
What Salespeople’s Voices Reveal About Selling
When Feedback Backfires: Kluger and DeNisi (1996)
Why Explaining Out Loud Deepens Understanding
Why Faster Speakers Sound More Credible
Why Speaking First Reads as Competence
Why Talking to Strangers Beats What We Expect
You Look Calm: The Illusion of Transparency
Your Voice in a Job Interview Predicts the Verdict
Under Pressure
Behavioral Interview Questions for Call Center Managers
Behavioral Interview Questions for Compliance Managers
Behavioral Interview Questions for Construction Managers
Behavioral Interview Questions for Customer Service Managers
Behavioral Interview Questions for Engineering Managers
Behavioral Interview Questions for Event Managers
Behavioral Interview Questions for Facilities Managers
Behavioral Interview Questions for Hotel Managers
Behavioral Interview Questions for Human Resources Managers
Behavioral Interview Questions for IT Operations Managers
Behavioral Interview Questions for Legal Managers
Behavioral Interview Questions for Logistics Managers
Behavioral Interview Questions for Maintenance Managers
Behavioral Interview Questions for Plant Managers
Behavioral Interview Questions for Procurement Managers
Behavioral Interview Questions for Product Managers
Behavioral Interview Questions for Production Managers
Behavioral Interview Questions for Project Managers
Behavioral Interview Questions for Property Managers
Behavioral Interview Questions for Quality Control Managers
Behavioral Interview Questions for Restaurant Managers
Behavioral Interview Questions for Risk Managers
Behavioral Interview Questions for Site Managers
Behavioral Interview Questions for Store Managers
How to Answer a Question You Do Not Know the Answer To
Interviews Are Not Interrogations
Nerves before you speak, and the two things that help
Objection Handling: How to Answer Pushback Without a Fight
Quality Assurance Manager Interview Questions
Retail Operations Manager Interview Questions
Talent Acquisition Manager Interview Questions
The Cost of the Thing You Did Not Say
The Hostile Question Is Usually a Gift
What to Do When Your Mind Goes Blank
Voice & Pace
How Much Can a Listener Hold at Once?
How to Sound Good on Video Calls
Loudness Is a Delivery Choice, Not a Fixed Trait
The Curse of Knowledge Is Why Experts Explain Things Badly
The Pause Is Punctuation the Audience Can Hear
The Speech Pattern That Undercuts Your Argument
What "Um" Tells Your Audience
What Video Calls Do to a Speaking Voice That a Room Doesn’t
What a Monotone Voice Costs an Audience
What the breath does
Why Lower-Pitched Voices Sound Like Leaders
Why a Room That Likes You Argues With You Less
Why “140 Words a Minute” Is the Wrong Target
Series
How We Measure
Leaders
Speaking Frameworks
Communication and Confidence
Communication and Dating
Communication and Education
Communication and Health
Communication and Influence
Communication and Leadership
Communication and Social Life
Communication and Wealth
The Five Axes
Speakers
Harsh Suryavanshi
Lubaba, App Support Analyst
Noam Shemla, CPO at Exprea
Shivani Choudhary
Thai Miller