What Makes a Speech Successful?
What is the best possible time to deliver a speech? ...
What Do We See When We See Our Opponents?
It’s commonplace for political observers to decry the polarization that ...
Are You Afraid to Speak Your Mind?
Are Americans afraid to speak their minds? According to a ...
What makes a good introduction?
A good introduction is essential to get a speaker off ...
Speakers, Do You Know Your Audience?
When we think about our audiences as speakers, we think ...
In Defense of Freezing
Those of us in the speaking world talk variously about ...
How’s Your Poker Face?
The benefits of a poker face are widely extolled in ...
A Counter-Intuitive Way to Deal with Stage Fright
I was instructing the mid-career executives on “Persuasion and Influence” ...
To End All Wars
This is the second of an occasional series on storytelling. ...
How Good Are We at Detecting Liars?
How good are we at reading each other’s body language? ...