Is Stress Bad for Speakers?
Is stress bad for humans? The popular view is that stress is bad, but the neurological research shows a more ...
How Are You Going to Add Music to Your Public Speaking?
A high percentage of the population is moved by music, from pop to classical, from global to Baroque. I’ve heard ...
Don’t Coddle Your Audience!
We coddle our audiences too much. The only reason to give a speech is to change the world. To change ...
How Does Your Voice Measure Up?
One of the most neglected areas of potential improvement for speakers and executives who want to up their game is ...
What About That Hybrid Workplace?
As the pandemic has worked its dreary, disastrous way with us over the past couple of years, the talk in ...
In Praise of Contagion
Contagion is good. At least, in an emotional sense, in audiences, and most of the time. As public speakers, we ...
How to Use A Key Learning Technique to Make Speeches Better
The “spacing effect,” first discovered by psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus in the late 1800s, shows that we learn new material best ...
What to Do When the Worst Happens?
What do you do if you lose your place in your speech, and you search in vain for a seeming ...
How Good Are Hybrid Events, Really?
I recently participated – virtually – in a hybrid conference. I was very curious, of course, to see how it ...
My 14-Year Anniversary Blog Post, or, Why You Need to Rehearse Your Zoom Presentations
I have been blogging for 14 years. That’s extraordinary, if I do say so, not the least because no one ...
