How to Learn (or Teach) Something New
What’s the best way to learn or to teach something new? A few recent studies suggest some surprising twists on ...
In Defense of Freezing
Those of us in the speaking world talk variously about stage fright, or nerves, or adrenaline, but when we’re getting ...
How Good Are We at Detecting Liars?
How good are we at reading each other’s body language? This is an essential question for communication, since we convey ...
How Our Brains Trick Us When We Try to Communicate
Two ongoing developments in neuroscience push us to realize that our lived experience of the world is not really what’s ...
Which is more important – authenticity or charisma?
Which is more important to you – authenticity or charisma? Do you perhaps yearn for charisma and settle for authenticity? ...
What Should You Do About Filler Words and Sounds?
In this blog post I’m delighted to talk to teammate Jessica Cooper, who helps both speakers and singers develop strong, ...
How Assertive Are You?
I probably should not admit to this character flaw in a blog post where other people may read it, but ...
JOQ S3 E13: Nick chats with neuroscience speaker Graham Lutz about the importance of making mistakes
In this episode of JOQ Nick and graham have a fun but important conversation about why we need ...
Does Grammar Matter?
Does grammar matter? And did you have a teacher in your youth who insisted on drumming the rules of good ...
Things I’ve Learned This Year
It's getting to the end of 2023, which was a momentous one for me in a number of ways, both ...
