How to Craft a Crowd-pleasing Speech
How do we decide what we like in a speech, as a member of the audience? The question is an ...
How to Change Someone’s Mind
How do you change someone’s mind? Your first reaction, in this polarized era, might understandably be ‘you don’t’. Especially on ...
Anxiety and the Zen of Public Speaking
This is my third and final piece of this series on the anxiety of public speaking. Adrenaline can cause speakers ...
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 ...
