What’s the Difference Between Acting and Speaking?
A recent question by pal John Keating reminded me that I had been meaning to do a blog post on ...
Emotion, Human Connection, and the Virtual World
Recently I was reviewing some research on popular TED talks that found that the most successful speakers used more hand ...
When Are the Right Times for Silence in Public Speaking?
We are drowning in a tsunami of online communications. From Twitter to Facebook to Instagram to LinkedIn, and a host ...
9 Ways to Interact with an Audience
I often get asked, as a proponent of audience interaction in speeches, how to do exactly that in ways that ...
Why Executives Need to Become Intentional Communicators
For executives with a public-facing role, the game has changed. You can’t rely on common sense or instinct or winging ...
Why You Need an Owl
One of the surprising discoveries I made while researching my new book, Can You Hear Me?, due out from Harvard ...
More Fear of Public Speaking
The fear of public speaking is real and lodges somewhere on a scale of annoying-to-debilitating for most people. I’ve posted ...
How to Give a Great Introduction 2018
We were reviewing the stats on this blog recently, and one of the surprising numbers is that the blog post ...
How to Connect with an Audience Fast
Speakers, like executives, salespeople, managers, trainers, consultants, advisors, engineers – the whole information society, in fact – are terribly afraid ...
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 ...
