What’s happened to our attention spans during the pandemic?
Attention spans are widely misapplied, misused, and misunderstood. The classic attention span research established that college students could pay attention ...
Is the Pandemic Too Serious for Humor?
Tammy Miller is a Past International Director and Accredited Speaker of Toastmasters International and a member of the PA Auctioneers ...
Make Every Conversation Count with Riaz Meghji
Before Riaz Meghji became a thought leader, speaker, and author of Every Conversation Counts, he was the host, for 17 ...
Making Video Conferences Work for You
This post is part of a continuing, occasional series about making virtual communications better. I’ve been talking to many organizations ...
Three Keys to Beginning a Successful Virtual Speech
I’m getting constant questions about how to make the virtual speaking experience as good as the face-to-face. The quick answer, ...
What It’s Like to Speak English as a Second Language
Paul Stevens and I started a conversation about virtual communications during the pandemic and it soon led to other issues ...
What Are Your Primals? Research Suggests a New Way to Think about Audiences
While we’ve been busy navigating the coronavirus pandemic and all the daily challenges that has brought, a group of psychologists, ...
Memory, Virtual Speaking, and Covid-19
I’ve been thinking and researching about memory lately, because I’m curious to see how our learning abilities (of which memory ...
Deep Zoom Lessons to Make Your Virtual Life Better
We’ve all gotten to know video conferencing a whole lot better lately, and for most of us that means spending ...
What does happiness have to do with public speaking?
Is it important to be happy? A couple of recent studies suggest that focusing on one’s happiness may not be ...
