What’s Your Motivational Speech?
Every time you speak, you’re not just informing — you’re persuading, nudging, inspiring – changing the audience, changing the world. ...
How to Cure an Audience’s Loneliness
Something like a third of humanity reports feeling lonely in the last week, globally, as has been widely reported, probably ...
The 15 Forces that Motivate Us Humans
Humans are beautifully, gorgeously complex, and that means that communicating with them is perennially challenging. But every now and then ...
Slow Brains and Fast Tigers
One of the mysteries of the brain is why our conscious minds are so slow. We process on the order ...
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 ...
Keynote Speakers – Don’t Neglect Q and A!
If you are a keynote speaker, you may often be asked to spend the last 15 minutes or so of ...
Is Empathy Important for Leaders or Speakers?
In the speaking business we spend a lot of time telling stories designed to elicit empathy in our audiences. Teachers ...
Empathy Is up to Us
Empathy is up to us. And it’s on the decline. We have reason to be worried, certainly here in the ...
What About the 10,000-hour Rule — Is It Still a Thing?
You’re probably familiar with the so-called 10,000-hour rule, the idea that what it takes – and all it takes – ...
How to Rehearse a Speech
You’ve got the speech booked, and it’s an important one. Of course, they’re all important, or you wouldn’t say ‘yes’, ...
