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 ...
To End All Wars
This is the second of an occasional series on storytelling. As I headed off to college at 17, I was ...
How Good Are We at Detecting Liars?
How good are we at reading each other’s body language? This is an essential question for communication, since we convey ...
Speakers Need to Pick the Right Colors!
Speakers can use the emerging science of color to enhances effects during their speeches and produce stronger impressions on their ...
5 Keys to Good Storytelling
The first of several posts on storytelling. I’ve been writing, coaching, and teaching about storytelling for over 25 years, and ...
How Our Brains Trick Us When We Try to Communicate
Two ongoing developments in neuroscience push us to realize that our lived experience of the world is not really what’s ...
