What Is a Narrative Reversal and Why Does It Matter?
Another in an occasional series on storytelling When I ask my mid-career executives in the Harvard Professional Education and Development ...
How to Learn (or Teach) Something New
What’s the best way to learn or to teach something new? A few recent studies suggest some surprising twists on ...
Are You on a Vacation or a Holiday?
A recent study got me thinking about the use of language to indicate connection. The study shows that we are ...
What Do We See When We See Our Opponents?
It’s commonplace for political observers to decry the polarization that afflicts our political scene here in the United States. I ...
Are You Afraid to Speak Your Mind?
Are Americans afraid to speak their minds? According to a recent study, the ‘land of the free and the home ...
What makes a good introduction?
A good introduction is essential to get a speaker off to a good start. The tendency for event hosts to ...
Speakers, Do You Know Your Audience?
When we think about our audiences as speakers, we think about their demographics, or the industry they are in, or ...
In Defense of Freezing
Those of us in the speaking world talk variously about stage fright, or nerves, or adrenaline, but when we’re getting ...
How’s Your Poker Face?
The benefits of a poker face are widely extolled in poker but also in life. Poker faces help in cards, ...
A Counter-Intuitive Way to Deal with Stage Fright
I was instructing the mid-career executives on “Persuasion and Influence” recently at Harvard’s Division of Continuing Education, and I was ...
