11 places to learn public-speaking skills for free

AFGE Public speaking is a highly sought after skill  --  in fact, if you want to be an executive with your company, an author, a salesperson, a trainer or any other public-facing professional, you're probably going to need to get comfortable with public speaking. And yet public speaking is still the top phobia, affecting more people than fears of spiders, heights, darkness and even death. That's right, death. If you're one of those people who would rather curl up in a ball and simply die tha...