The Other Skill Speakers Need to Succeed

Nick Morgan2018-03-29T04:00:24-05:00March 29, 2018|Audience Interaction, Community Building, Speaker Marketing|

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

Nick Morgan2018-03-08T04:00:03-05:00March 8, 2018|Audience Interaction, Content/Writing, eBooks (Electronic), Emotion|

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

Nick Morgan2018-02-27T04:00:05-05:00February 27, 2018|Audience Interaction, Body Language, Non-Verbal Communication|

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

Nick Morgan2018-02-20T04:00:28-05:00February 20, 2018|Audience Interaction, Content/Writing, Successful Speakers|

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

Nick Morgan2018-02-15T04:00:08-05:00February 15, 2018|Audience Interaction, Neuroscience, Successful Speakers|

What are we to make of a recent study that showed some memory loss and impaired learning in lab rats ...

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Five Quick Ways to Strengthen Your Speech

Nick Morgan2018-01-23T04:00:01-05:00January 23, 2018|Audience Interaction, Content/Writing, Successful Speakers|

Are you working on a speech or presentation that just seems to lack that little bit extra that will make ...

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I’m losing the battle against PowerPoint

Nick Morgan2018-01-16T04:00:38-05:00January 16, 2018|Audience Interaction, Neuroscience, Visual Aids and Props|

I’ve been blogging for 11 years.  Almost that entire time, I’ve been waging a campaign against slides.  I’m losing.  A ...

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Seven Lazy Hacks to Improve Your Public Speaking

Nick Morgan2018-01-11T04:00:25-05:00January 11, 2018|Audience Interaction, Authenticity, Successful Speakers|

Who among us isn’t always trying to improve our public speaking?  And who among us wouldn’t secretly love to learn ...

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How to Handle Q and A, Part 2

Nick Morgan2017-11-21T04:00:32-05:00November 21, 2017|Audience Interaction, Listening, Non-Verbal Communication|

This is the second article of two on how to handle Q and A. In the first of these two ...

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How to Handle Q and A, Part 1

Nick Morgan2019-03-02T05:30:22-05:00November 16, 2017|Audience Interaction, Listening, Non-Verbal Communication|

Why go to all the trouble of preparing a speech when you can just take questions?  I’ve been asked that ...