On Tuesday 1/28 I’ll be doing a free, live webcast (register here) about public speaking, hosted by O’Reilly Media.

NOTE: The webcast happened and you missed it. The slides and Q&A can be found here.

In Confessions of A Public Speaker I explained how to deal with 17 difficult speaking situations. In the webcast I’ll coach you through some of them, or the ones you ask for in comments:

• You’re being heckled
• Everyone is staring at their laptops / phones
• Your time slot gets cut from 45 to 10 minutes
• Everyone in the room hates you
• One guy won’t stop asking questions
• There is a rambling question that makes no sense
• You are asked an impossible question
• The microphone breaks
• Your laptop explodes
• There is a typo on your slide (nooooooo!)
• You’re late for you’re own talk
• You feel sick
• You’re running out of time
• You left your slides at home
• Your hosts are control freaks
• You have a wardrobe malfunction
• There are only 5 people in the audience

Would you like me to cover any of these in the webcast? Or are there other situations you want to learn to handle better?

Leave a comment and I’ll consider covering it in the webcast. Thanks.