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Why Learn About Body Language? Here’s One Reason.

Nick Morgan2017-04-20T04:00:43-05:00April 20, 2017|Audience Interaction, Body Language, Emotion, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication|

Why do we bother with the hard and imprecise work of trying to understand body language?  After all, we’re already ...

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We Are All Motivational Speakers

Nick Morgan2019-03-02T06:01:44-05:00April 18, 2017|Audience Interaction, Content/Writing, Emotion, Neuroscience, Speech Writing, Successful Speakers|

Motivational speakers have something of a bad name in some circles, but the truth is that every speaking event has ...

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What Should Speakers Wear?

Nick Morgan2017-04-11T02:23:18-05:00April 11, 2017|Audience Interaction, Authenticity, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication, Successful Speakers|

What should speakers wear?  I’ve posted on this fiendishly difficult question in the past and it seemed time to do ...

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What’s the Most Important Moment for a Speaker?

Nick Morgan2019-03-02T06:04:52-05:00April 4, 2017|Body Language, Current Affairs, Emotion, Fear of Public Speaking, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication, Successful Speakers|

What’s the key moment in the life of the speaker?  Is it the standing ovation? The off-script excitement of a ...

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Three Ways for Speakers to Cope with Stress

Nick Morgan2019-03-02T06:05:42-05:00March 30, 2017|Audience Interaction, Emotion, Fear of Public Speaking, Neuroscience, Successful Speakers|

Continuing with my theme of the past few blog posts on the nature of the speaking business and what it ...

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Getting Your Voice Right on Stage

Nick Morgan2019-03-02T06:07:18-05:00March 14, 2017|Body Language, Charisma, Emotion, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication, Successful Speakers|

The first time I saw a video of myself giving a speech, somewhere way back in the late 80s or ...

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What We Think We Know About Lying Is Wrong

Nick Morgan2017-03-07T04:00:44-05:00March 7, 2017|Audience Interaction, Authenticity, Body Language, Emotion, Fear of Public Speaking, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication|

A recent study has overturned what we think we know about lying.  Most of us have a pet theory about ...

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Can Political Beliefs Be Changed, or the Cultural Divide Repaired?

Nick Morgan2017-02-23T04:00:20-05:00February 23, 2017|Content/Writing, Current Affairs, Emotion, Neuroscience, Speech Writing, Successful Speakers, Videos|

The proverbial visitor from Mars – especially one who was here for a return visit -- might be pardoned for ...

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Why Speakers Should be Helping Audiences Forget What They Know

Nick Morgan2019-03-02T06:09:54-05:00February 21, 2017|Audience Interaction, Content/Writing, Current Affairs, Neuroscience, Speech Writing|

There’s a particularly tedious kind of speaker that ostentatiously tries to teach his audience something by having the audience repeatedly ...

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What the *#@&! Should Speakers Swear?

Nick Morgan2017-02-16T04:00:03-05:00February 16, 2017|Audience Interaction, Authenticity, Community Building, Content/Writing, Current Affairs, Neuroscience, Speaker Critiques, Speaker Marketing, Successful Speakers, When Things Go Wrong|

Should a speaker swear on stage?  Is it ever appropriate, and if so when? These questions used to have an ...