What Do Your Audiences Remember?
How can you, a keynote speaker or perhaps a more humble everyday presenter, increase what your audience retains of your ...
What Is the Difference Between Good and Bad Storytelling?
Good storytelling begins in pain. At the core of every great story is conflict, and that means that someone is ...
How to Talk about Change
How should speakers, writers, and other communicators talk about change most effectively? Not the way we’ve been doing it. Not ...
Trying to learn something? Beware the digital!
Two recent studies about retention and memory suggest that we should not rely wholly on digital means for learning and ...
Analyzing the Rhetoric and Delivery of President Biden’s First SOTU
President Theodore Roosevelt famously called the U. S. presidency a ‘bully pulpit,” by which he meant a wonderful platform from ...
How to Use A Key Learning Technique to Make Speeches Better
The “spacing effect,” first discovered by psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus in the late 1800s, shows that we learn new material best ...
The 5 Most Common Speaker Prep Mistakes
What are the mistakes that speakers make over and over again when preparing their speech content? Here are the 5 ...
New Year’s Resolutions for Speakers, 2022
Having just crawled through the wreckage of a year in which our hopes for a return to normalcy – even ...
My 14-Year Anniversary Blog Post, or, Why You Need to Rehearse Your Zoom Presentations
I have been blogging for 14 years. That’s extraordinary, if I do say so, not the least because no one ...
A New Alternative to Slide-deck Preparation
When I ask people what they do to prepare a speech or presentation, the most common answer is, ‘pull a ...
