Nick Morgan’s Latest Blog Post
- TRUSTED COMMUNICATIONS ADVICE AND COMMENTARY
In this article, Nick Morgan makes a strong case for why good public speaking is essential to the business world. If your company is not practicing good, open corporate communications, it is going to take a lot to turn the problem around. Great public speaking can help to kick-start a communications Renaissance within your organization.
Four Steps to a Charismatic Presentation
It’s often said that charisma is something you either have or you don’t. But that’s simply wrong; charisma can be learned. Here, renowned communications coach Nick Morgan reveals 4 quick steps to releasing the charisma inside of you.
How To Give A Great Speech
Helen Coster, Forbes 08.16.10
Future public speakers of the world, take note. You don’t have to be a Silicon Valley billionaire to deliver a great speech. The best speeches include a clear, relevant message and a few great stories to illustrate it. Forget fancy PowerPoint presentations and loads of data. Instead, keep your speech simple. Focus on one theme, and eliminate everything else. Read the full article.
ARTICLES BY NICK MORGAN
IN FORBES
How To Win An Argument Without Words
Leadership often involves negotiating very tough deals, or handling strong objections, or getting a reluctant team to agree to some difficult course of action. To accomplish such things, we employ all the verbal means at our disposal, yet most of us give little thought to our nonverbal actions while these verbal activities are going on. In this Forbes article, Nick Morgan provides three basic steps for winning the nonverbal argument when emotions are running high. More…
Almost Everyone Gets PR Wrong
Executives usually think about public relations as if it were a matter of keeping score. You get good points for favorable press mentions; you lose points for bad ones. But these executives miss a deeper, two-fold problem because of a basic misunderstanding of how public awareness of a brand or a company or an institution actually works. More…
Leadership Is All About Emotional Persuasion
The communicating a leader does is all, essentially, persuasion. That’s what leaders do. They persuade people to work together, to achieve more than they ever thought they could, to reach for apparently impossible goals, to put personal interests aside (at least temporarily) in favor of some larger group purpose. In this article, Nick Morgan explains why a leader’s job is to change minds, and they can push followers to make new decisions. More…
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In his book Trust Me: Four Steps to Authenticity and Charisma Nick Morgan shows how anyone can be an effective speaker by presenting an image of authenticity and respect for their audience, whether in a group presentation or a one-on-one conversation.
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Speaker Critiques
Are you looking for a speaker for your next event? Do you wonder whether or not that famous speaker is as good as the hype? Do you want to learn from the best?
Communications coach Nick Morgan analyzes some of the world’s most prominent speakers and provides his honest critiques based both on live performances and on videos of their talks that have been posted online.
- Shai Agassi
- Jill Bolte Taylor
- Stewart Brand
- Richard Branson
- Marcus Buckingham
- Ram Charan
- Robin Chase
- Jim Collins
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Jared Diamond
- Susan Ershler
- Steve Farber
- Seth Godin
- Marshall Goldsmith
- Gary Hamel
- Chip and Dan Heath
- Sally Hogshead
- Steve Jobs
- Bjarke Ingels
- Guy Kawasaki
- Philip Kotler
- Paul Krugman
- Charlene Li
- David Meerman Scott
- Nicholas Negroponte
- Jamie Oliver
- Tom Peters
- Daniel Pink
- Michael Porter
- Virginia Postrel
- Samantha Power
- C K Prahalad
- Sir Ken Robinson
- Tim Sanders
- Keith Schacht and Zach Kaplan
- Eric Schmidt
- Clifford Stoll
- James Surowiecki
- Gary Vaynerchuk
- Jack Welch
- Benjamin Zander
Useful Links
- Vital Speeches of the Day provides examples of effective speeches. The speeches serve not only as models of rhetoric, but also as a knowledge bank of expert analysis of important public concerns.
- Guy Kawasaki’s Alltop site features Nick’s public speaking advice and commentary amongst their comprehensive list of the top 100 public speaking blogs.
- Nick is a regular contributor to the Harvard Business Publishing blog. Find all his articles here.
About Public Words
At Public Words we’re passionate about helping people tell their stories. We can help with all aspects of your communications. We can work with you to prepare for a significant event, like an important speech or a conference. We can help you refine your ideas, write books and articles, and navigate the publishing process. If you are a speaker, we’ll work with you to develop speeches that move audiences to action. We’ll help you master your delivery so that you are authentic and charismatic. We’ll work with you to market yourself to speaker bureaus, associations and organizations.
Find out more about what we do.
Nick is a communications coach, writer and speaker. He has worked with leaders around the world to design conferences and prepare keynote speeches.
Nikki is a designer and marketing specialist who helps clients re-think the way they present themselves to the world.
