What to Do When the Worst Happens?
What do you do if you lose your place in your speech, and you search in vain for a seeming ...
How Have Communications Changed Since 9/11?
OK, I’m not even going to comment on how it’s possible that it has been 20 years since 9/11. The ...
The Problem with Virtual Communication
Long before the pandemic, I was a technophile. I always latched onto the latest tech, and believed that being up-to-date ...
Future of Meetings, Updated
Back in November I took a shot at predicting the future of meetings – how virtual they would be once ...
How Speakers Self-Sabotage
Over the years I’ve watched some great speakers thrive and others with similar talents never get very far out of ...
Kintsugi and Public Speaking
The Japanese concept of Kintsugi at a deep level is similar to our idea of not letting the perfect be ...
How’s Your Empathy Holding Up?
Public Words has been running an empathy quiz for the past 2 years, and we now have 2,000 responses. So ...
What’s happened to our attention spans during the pandemic?
Attention spans are widely misapplied, misused, and misunderstood. The classic attention span research established that college students could pay attention ...
Is the Pandemic Too Serious for Humor?
Tammy Miller is a Past International Director and Accredited Speaker of Toastmasters International and a member of the PA Auctioneers ...
Why You Need to Gesture on Zoom
What are gestures really for? When we speak, most of us wave our hands around in ways that we don’t ...
