The Power Of Jon Stewart’s Testimony to Congress
Every now and then a speech comes along that both defines the era and transcends it. Comedian Jon Stewart’s recent ...
What’s the Single Most Important Key to a Successful Speech?
What makes for a successful speech? The truth is that it’s a complex mixture of art and science, intellect and ...
Finding Your Voice — Part Two
This post is the second of two on finding your voice. It seems like every other person I meet either ...
Finding Your Voice – Part One
This is the first of two posts on finding your voice as a speaker. When I was at a low ...
How Good a Speaker Is Joe Biden?
Thanks to the persuasive powers of David Meerman Scott, I decided to take a work day to attend a Vice-President ...
Hostile Audiences
I’ve occasionally posted on the curiously angry state of the current world – the Eeyore Zeitgeist we live in now. ...
Talking to Teens and Other Challenges
According to some new research, our sensitivity to negative expressions and threats varies with age. We’re most sensitive as teens, ...
Are you even listening? How to Spot a Fake Listener!
As a nation, and a world, we’ve all pretty much stopped listening to one another. We’ve separated into tribes, and ...
What Is Charisma?
What is charisma? Sooner or later almost everyone I coach asks me that question. And it immediately leads to the next […]
Dealing with Hostility as a Speaker
One of the interesting by-products of our world becoming more virtual over the past decade is that behavior which would […]
