Please Help by Communicating with Others in this Anxious Time
There’s a lot of anxiety going around right now with the pandemic, and the dislocation of normal life, schedules, and ...
Why do we misunderstand each other more than ever before?
For this week's post, here's a brief video delving into the communications challenges we all face in the half-real, half-virtual ...
Can your Ideas Be Translated into other Languages?
Have you ever wondered whether the meanings of concepts behind words are similar from one culture to another? In other ...
Karen Gross, Singer-Speechwriter
Regular readers of this blog will know that I believe the essence of successful speaking resides in the voice. Without ...
It Matters What Story a Politician Is Telling You
I was struck recently by an implication of storytelling that explains a good deal of the current attitude towards various ...
What is your digital footprint?
Public speakers today, like many another knowledge worker, live and die by the amount of attention they can win in ...
Takeaways from Round Two of the Democratic Debates
We’ve endured the second round of Democratic presidential debates, this time hosted by CNN. By now, the folly of the ...
You Think You Have Too Much Email? Wait Until Your Workplace Adds Slack!
The promise of word processing and email was that they were going to bring us friction-free communication and asynchronous convenience. ...
How Empathetic Are You? The Empathy Quiz Gives Some Clues
I’ve been speaking in Washington DC recently at a variety of government venues, talking about the ideas and research in ...
When Body Language Is, and Isn’t, Effective
The most important thing to understand about body language is that we humans don't care about it. Now, of course, ...
