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 ...
Are You Betting on You?
I’m thrilled that my good friend Laurie Ruettimann has a new book out this month, Betting on You: How to ...
Can You Improve Your Speaking Voice?
Q and A with Debra Cancro, CEO VoiceVibes As a speaker coach, I spend a lot of time listening to ...
Making Video Conferences Work for You
This post is part of a continuing, occasional series about making virtual communications better. I’ve been talking to many organizations ...
The Future of Meetings, Predicted
What’s going to happen to virtual events when the pandemic is over? This question has become more and more urgent ...
Why Leaders Want to Go Back to the Office
How are companies faring, 8 months into the pandemic, with the resultant huge increase in teleworking, video conferencing, and remote ...
The Future of Democracy Is in Your Hands — Vote!
I first published a version of this blog in 2016. Sadly, it seems even more true today. The human impulse, ...
Three Ways to Make Video Conferencing More Bearable
I’m seeing a lot of stress in the faces of executives and knowledge workers I talk to on video conferences ...
Body Language Takeaways from the First Debate of the Fall, 2020
Let’s dispense with the obvious first: this deeply dispiriting exchange was neither a debate nor a conversation nor even a ...
