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Can You Handle Your Adrenaline? Can Your Audience?

Nick Morgan2019-03-02T08:27:24-05:00August 4, 2016|Audience Interaction, Body Language, Emotion, Fear of Public Speaking, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication, When Things Go Wrong|

Most speakers get to know their adrenaline fight-or-flight response very, very well. To be sure, I’ve met a few speakers ...

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How to Use Improv to Make Your Work Day Better

Nick Morgan2019-03-02T08:29:55-05:00July 28, 2016|Audience Interaction, Book Reviews, Current Affairs, Listening, Neuroscience, Successful Speakers|

Recently, I had the pleasure of engaging in a Q and A with Cathy Salit, head of Performance of a ...

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Five Public Speaking Lessons from Donald Trump’s Thursday Night Acceptance Speech

Nick Morgan2019-03-02T08:31:32-05:00July 23, 2016|Authenticity, Body Language, Charisma, Content/Writing, Current Affairs, Emotion, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication, Speaker Critiques|

Donald Trump is one of those figures that politics churns up from time to time about whom few are half-hearted ...

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How To Talk to Audiences so that They Remember What You Say

Nick Morgan2019-03-02T08:52:40-05:00July 7, 2016|Audience Interaction, Content/Writing, Neuroscience, Speech Writing, Storytelling, Successful Speakers|

Some recent research on memory and retention has important implications for public speakers everywhere who care about their audiences actually ...

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Amy Cuddy on Presence

Nick Morgan2019-03-02T08:56:18-05:00June 21, 2016|Authenticity, Body Language, Book Reviews, Books, Books (Print), Charisma, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication|

Amy Cuddy’s wonderful book, Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to your Biggest Challenges, published in 2015, begins with a story ...

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Beware the Unconscious Dialogue You’re Having with your Audience

Nick Morgan2019-03-02T08:57:38-05:00June 14, 2016|Audience Interaction, Authenticity, Body Language, Emotion, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication|

What really happens when people try to communicate with one another? Specifically, when one person gets up in front of ...

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The Surprising Way Metaphors Will Strengthen Your Speeches

Nick Morgan2019-03-02T08:58:48-05:00June 9, 2016|Content/Writing, Neuroscience, Speech Writing, Successful Speakers|

The human mind – especially the unconscious human mind – is still mostly a mystery to us, its owner. Neuroscience ...

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Audiences Don’t Remember What They Hear – Here’s How to Fix That Problem

Nick Morgan2019-03-02T09:01:25-05:00May 31, 2016|Audience Interaction, Content/Writing, Neuroscience, Successful Speakers|

Regular readers of this blog will know that the statistics of remembering are unkind to public speakers everywhere. The research ...

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The Think Method Actually Works!

Nick Morgan2019-03-02T09:01:54-05:00May 24, 2016|Emotion, Fear of Public Speaking, Neuroscience|

Among my favorite psychological studies recently is one that shows that imagining exercise is almost as good as actually doing ...

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Hypothyroidism, Intelligence, and Baggy Eyelids

Nick Morgan2019-03-02T09:02:53-05:00May 19, 2016|Audience Interaction, Authenticity, Charisma, Emotion, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication|

I am hypothyroid. It’s a curious disease that means my thyroid doesn’t make enough of the hormones that the thyroid ...