The Real Purpose of Eye Contact
Among the many common misunderstandings about body language is a very basic one: the real purpose of eye contact. We ...
Listen, People!
If you are over forty and reading this blog post, you are beginning to experience –however subtly – the symptoms ...
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 ...
Is Pausing Dangerous for Public Speaking?
I’ve written a number of times about the power of the pause in public speaking – pausing before you start ...
What’s wrong with filler words, exactly?
Are, like, filler or weasel words, you know, on the rise? What do the following words have in common: basically, ...
What It’s Like to Speak English as a Second Language
Paul Stevens and I started a conversation about virtual communications during the pandemic and it soon led to other issues ...
How to Ace the Q and A
I’ve seen many speakers give a great speech only to lose the audience through fumbles during the Q and A. ...
What Can a Symphony Orchestra Conductor Teach Us About Public Speaking?
Having just moved to a new town, I suddenly appreciate anew Einstein’s most brilliant thinking. It wasn’t the General Theory ...
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 ...
True Listening: How can you tell when you’re being listened to?
In my last post I decried the epidemic of fake listening that rages through our society, brought on by the ...
