Should You Want Your Audience to Like You?
How important is it for audiences to like their speakers? Most speakers won’t admit it, but a big part of ...
If Virtual Communication Is so Important, Why Do I Feel so Bad Using It?
For most people, moving into the digital world to communicate means experiencing significant loss of clarity, ease, and depth. You ...
What’s Wrong with Virtual Communication, Part 2
Virtual relationships are more fragile and easily disrupted because they all lack the unconscious connections our face-to-face interactions automatically convey. ...
What’s Wrong with Virtual Communication, Part 1
We are all unwitting participants in a massive social experiment that began slowly after World War II and gathered speed ...
The Grateful Speaker
Public speaking is a privilege. Especially if you’re lucky enough to be able to pursue it as a full-time occupation, ...
The Other Skill Speakers Need to Succeed
Giving a speech is a high-adrenaline, people-oriented, immediate-gratification event. The ranks of professional speakers tend to be filled with extroverts, ...
How to Understand Your Audience
When I’m working with clients, we always start, not with them, but with their audience. Sometimes clients find this a ...
You Are Already a Body Language Expert
There’s a good deal of nonsense written about body language. The idea most often expressed is that experts in the ...
The Five Ways to an Audience’s Heart
The Ancient Greeks and Romans thought hard about the purposes of public speaking. In fact, one story has it that ...
Memory, Lighting, and Public Speaking
What are we to make of a recent study that showed some memory loss and impaired learning in lab rats ...
