A Simple Body Language Trick to Increase Your Audience’s Trust in You

Nick Morgan2015-07-30T14:13:09-05:00July 30, 2015|Audience Interaction, Body Language, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication|

I’ve written occasionally about the power of mirroring to create trust in human interaction. The reason is relatively straightforward – ...

How to Increase the Persuasiveness of Your Speaking

Nick Morgan2015-07-28T16:58:50-05:00July 28, 2015|Audience Interaction, Body Language, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication|

I was struck recently by a set of research studies that reinforced the importance of touch in persuasion. Touching people ...

Why Can’t I Leave my Body Language to Chance?

Nick Morgan2015-07-21T07:00:51-05:00July 21, 2015|Body Language, Charisma, Emotion, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication|

Regular readers of this blog (and my book Power Cues) will know that I’m an advocate for a version of ...

How to Warm Up for a Presentation

Nick Morgan2015-07-16T07:00:14-05:00July 16, 2015|Audience Interaction, Body Language, Fear of Public Speaking, Non-Verbal Communication, Rehearsal|

Today’s the day. You have a presentation to give. It’s your biggest audience yet. The organizers tell you there could ...

Why You Should Become Intentional

Nick Morgan2015-07-09T07:00:51-05:00July 9, 2015|Authenticity, Body Language, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication|

Sometimes when I work with clients, there’s a moment when the full implications of what I’m asking from them in ...

Why the Conscious Mind Is Mostly Illusion, and What that Means for Speakers

Nick Morgan2015-06-30T10:56:47-05:00June 30, 2015|Body Language, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication|

A new theory, just published in the journal Behaviour and Brain Sciences (Morsella et al., 2015), reaffirms what I argued in ...

What Sepp Blatter Did Right

Nick Morgan2015-06-04T07:00:45-05:00June 4, 2015|Body Language, Current Affairs, Emotion, Non-Verbal Communication, Speech Writing, Storytelling, When Things Go Wrong|

The FIFA president gave a fascinating resignation speech after 17 years in the job, thanks to the recent indictments on ...

Finding Your Voice

Nick Morgan2015-05-21T07:00:16-05:00May 21, 2015|Authenticity, Body Language, Charisma, Content/Writing|

A recent study of CEO’s voices – and they were all male – found that the ones with lower voices ...

What Was That CEO Thinking?

Nick Morgan2015-05-12T07:00:25-05:00May 12, 2015|Authenticity, Body Language, Charisma, Content/Writing, Current Affairs, Emotion, Non-Verbal Communication, Speaker Critiques, Speech Writing, Storytelling, When Things Go Wrong|

What’s up with the McDonald’s CEO? Steve Easterbrook, the McDonald’s CEO, delivered a video statement to the business community and McDonald’s ...

Can You Present Well Sitting Down?

Nick Morgan2015-04-30T07:00:30-05:00April 30, 2015|Audience Interaction, Authenticity, Body Language, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication|

One question I get asked regularly is about sitting down to present. If there are only a few people in ...