Nine Steps to a Great Presentation

Nick Morgan2015-10-27T12:13:58-05:00October 27, 2015|Audience Interaction, Content/Writing, Listening, Speech Writing|

A presentation is performance art – meaning that you need both great content and a great delivery to hit the proverbial ...

How to Prepare for a Speech You’re Worried About

Nick Morgan2015-10-22T14:30:29-05:00October 22, 2015|Audience Interaction, Body Language, Content/Writing, Fear of Public Speaking, Non-Verbal Communication|

I’ve just come from three speeches in three days. Before that, it had been just over a month. Speeches seem ...

What Happens When Speeches Go Wrong?

Nick Morgan2015-10-20T13:04:20-05:00October 20, 2015|Audience Interaction, Authenticity, Content/Writing, Event Planning and Management, Successful Speakers, When Things Go Wrong|

When speeches go wrong, most often it’s the speaker who gets the blame. But a better way of thinking about ...

A Good Use of PowerPoint

Nick Morgan2015-10-08T07:00:29-05:00October 8, 2015|Content/Writing, Visual Aids and Props|

Readers of this blog will know I’m not a big fan of slideware for speakers. This position is so heretical ...

The Dirty Secret of Public Speaking – and What to Do About It

Nick Morgan2015-09-17T07:00:02-05:00September 17, 2015|Audience Interaction, Content/Writing, Neuroscience, Speech Writing|

One of the dirty secrets of public speaking is that audiences don’t remember much of what you say. I’ve seen ...

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Eight Ways to Begin a Speech

Nick Morgan2015-07-14T10:03:05-05:00July 14, 2015|Content/Writing, Emotion, Speech Writing, Storytelling|

The most difficult moments of a speech are those seemingly endless seconds of stage time while you get to your ...

What We Can Learn from President Obama’s Eulogy for Reverend Pinckney

Nick Morgan2015-07-02T11:37:32-05:00July 2, 2015|Authenticity, Charisma, Content/Writing, Current Affairs, Emotion, Speaker Critiques|

The public speaking world has been abuzz for the past week about a standout speech delivered by President Obama in ...

Five Common Rookie Storytelling Mistakes

Nick Morgan2015-06-18T07:00:05-05:00June 18, 2015|Content/Writing, Speech Writing, Storytelling|

In honor of this week’s launch of our new online course, Presentation Prep: 10 Steps to Persuasive Storytelling, I’m devoting ...

Authenticity, Artifice, and Presentation Prep

Nick Morgan2015-06-16T07:00:54-05:00June 16, 2015|Authenticity, Content/Writing, Speech Writing, Storytelling|

We live in an era when the demand for authenticity trumps a number of qualities that our society (and others) ...

What’s Wrong With Acronyms?

Nick Morgan2015-06-11T07:00:02-05:00June 11, 2015|Content/Writing, Speech Writing, Storytelling|

Just because it’s possible to sum up the key takeaways in your presentation in one of those annoying acronyms doesn’t ...