How to Conquer Your Unconscious Fears

Nick Morgan2015-02-24T12:36:08-05:00February 24, 2015|Audience Interaction, Authenticity, Body Language, Emotion, Fear of Public Speaking, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication, When Things Go Wrong|

This is the final post in a series on putting your unconscious mind to work for you, rather than leaving ...

How to train your brain for peak performance

Nick Morgan2015-02-19T07:00:14-05:00February 19, 2015|Emotion, Fear of Public Speaking, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication, When Things Go Wrong|

So if we’ve got at least three brains and two of the three are busy sabotaging us at key moments ...

Martin Luther King and the Rule of Three

Nick Morgan2015-02-12T07:00:09-05:00February 12, 2015|Charisma, Content/Writing, Emotion, Speech Writing, Successful Speakers|

I’ve been thinking about Martin Luther King as a speaker again recently, because of the holiday, of course, but also ...

Are You Leaving Your Impact To Chance?

Nick Morgan2015-02-10T07:00:47-05:00February 10, 2015|Body Language, Emotion, Fear of Public Speaking, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication, Successful Speakers|

One thing that is not part of our commonsense understanding of how our minds work is the importance of the ...

Five New Ways To Deal With Stage Fright

Nick Morgan2015-01-22T07:00:51-05:00January 22, 2015|Audience Interaction, Emotion, Fear of Public Speaking, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication, When Things Go Wrong|

What else can you do with speech anxiety besides worry? Readers of this blog will know that I’ve given you ...

Authenticity or Charisma?

Nick Morgan2015-01-08T07:00:59-05:00January 8, 2015|Authenticity, Body Language, Charisma, Emotion, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication|

Somewhere between the twentieth and the twenty-first centuries, the general public became tired of hype and decided that it wanted ...

High Voice? Low Voice? What Works in Front of an Audience?

Nick Morgan2014-12-11T07:00:31-05:00December 11, 2014|Charisma, Emotion, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication, Successful Speakers|

I’ve been posting a good deal recently on research having to do with the voice. And a number of readers ...

Why Your Speaking Voice Matters

Nick Morgan2014-12-02T07:00:32-05:00December 2, 2014|Body Language, Charisma, Emotion, Neuroscience|

Here’s a quick question for American readers fresh from a Thanksgiving family gathering – or indeed anyone who has gathered ...

Are Mirror Neurons a Myth?

Nick Morgan2014-11-20T07:00:39-05:00November 20, 2014|Emotion, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication|

For my second piece on neuro-myths, I’m tackling head-on the biggest, hottest development in neuroscience, according to some observers, in ...

What John Lewis Can Teach Speakers About Storytelling and Emotion

Nick Morgan2014-11-13T07:00:39-05:00November 13, 2014|Content/Writing, Current Affairs, Emotion, Storytelling|

Speakers often struggle with how to get the emotion they know they need to move audiences into a speech. Perhaps ...