How to Change Minds with a Speech
What’s the best way to prepare people for change? This question is one that we speakers often ask ourselves, more ...
Memory, Virtual Speaking, and Covid-19
I’ve been thinking and researching about memory lately, because I’m curious to see how our learning abilities (of which memory ...
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 ...
What Are the Chapters in a Change Journey?
At a recent conference, I was asked to talk about change – on short notice. The forcing function turned out ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 Can You Make a Technical Subject Interesting?
How can academics and specialist in arcane forms of knowledge take their subject matter and present it to general audiences ...
Why Is Most Public Speaking So Awful?
A few years back on this blog I asked myself the question, why is so much public speaking – especially ...
