The 5 Most Common Speaker Prep Mistakes

Nick Morgan
3 min readJan 13, 2022

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What are the mistakes that speakers make over and over again when preparing their speech content? Here are the 5 most common ones that I’ve seen during a lifetime of attending speeches, coaching speeches, and of course giving them (and making mistakes) myself.

When a speaker’s biggest fear is losing the audience’s attention, focusing on bells and whistles instead of storytelling. A sure sign…

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Nick Morgan

communications coach, author and speaker; fascinated by all things creative