Is Empathy Important for Leaders or Speakers?
In the speaking business we spend a lot of time telling stories designed to elicit empathy in our audiences. Teachers ...
Bullying and Body Language
A couple of studies show that the effects of bullying on children are both long-term and significant. Significant, because bullying ...
Is Positive Thinking a Mistake?
Two studies published last year cast a bit of shade on the power of positive thinking and of avoiding negative ...
Update on Stage Fright for 2024
Over the years, I’ve often recommended using positive mantras to help you deal with stage fright of all kinds and ...
Is Small Talk a Waste of Time?
Why do we humans make small talk? We spend a lot of time worrying about how to chit-chat amusingly, or ...
How to Interact with Audiences, Part Five
This is the fifth of a six-part series. One of the consistent surprises for me in the keynote speaking world ...
How to Interact with Audiences, Part 2
The second of six posts on how to interact with audiences. One of the consistent surprises for me in the ...
Healing Humans Requires the Communal Touch
I posted earlier this year about how a recent study showed that a single conversation a day with another human ...
How to Calm Your Stage Fright
What causes your body to jump into an adrenaline response? For most of us, snakes, spiders, and other creepy crawly ...
Are You Optimizing Your Voice?
I'm pleased to include a post by a new member of the PW team, Jessica Cooper, who is an accomplished voice coach ...
