The Little Trick That Will Make Your Audiences Trust You

Nick Morgan2015-08-20T07:00:23-05:00August 20, 2015|Audience Interaction, Body Language, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication|

I am happy to report good news for speakers. A recent study in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin offers ...

Beware Perfectionism in Public Speaking

Nick Morgan2015-08-13T14:58:57-05:00August 13, 2015|Audience Interaction, Authenticity, Emotion, Event Planning and Management, Neuroscience, When Things Go Wrong|

I saw a study recently in the journal Personality and Social Psychology Review (I read these things so you don’t ...

How To Boost Your Memory – And Your Audience’s

Nick Morgan2015-08-04T07:00:14-05:00August 4, 2015|Audience Interaction, Body Language, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication, Successful Speakers|

First the bad news. Yoga does not significantly boost your memory. Very good for you in many ways – I ...

A Simple Body Language Trick to Increase Your Audience’s Trust in You

Nick Morgan2015-07-30T14:13:09-05:00July 30, 2015|Audience Interaction, Body Language, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication|

I’ve written occasionally about the power of mirroring to create trust in human interaction. The reason is relatively straightforward – ...

How to Increase the Persuasiveness of Your Speaking

Nick Morgan2015-07-28T16:58:50-05:00July 28, 2015|Audience Interaction, Body Language, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication|

I was struck recently by a set of research studies that reinforced the importance of touch in persuasion. Touching people ...

Why Can’t I Leave my Body Language to Chance?

Nick Morgan2015-07-21T07:00:51-05:00July 21, 2015|Body Language, Charisma, Emotion, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication|

Regular readers of this blog (and my book Power Cues) will know that I’m an advocate for a version of ...

Why You Should Become Intentional

Nick Morgan2015-07-09T07:00:51-05:00July 9, 2015|Authenticity, Body Language, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication|

Sometimes when I work with clients, there’s a moment when the full implications of what I’m asking from them in ...

Why the Conscious Mind Is Mostly Illusion, and What that Means for Speakers

Nick Morgan2015-06-30T10:56:47-05:00June 30, 2015|Body Language, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication|

A new theory, just published in the journal Behaviour and Brain Sciences (Morsella et al., 2015), reaffirms what I argued in ...

Speakers Need to Beware of the Air They Breathe

Nick Morgan2015-06-25T07:00:01-05:00June 25, 2015|Neuroscience, Successful Speakers, Tools and Resources|

Speakers, beware! The very air you breathe could be sabotaging your presentations. A recent study found that dry air – ...

How To Change The World

Nick Morgan2015-05-26T07:00:20-05:00May 26, 2015|Content/Writing, Neuroscience, Speech Writing, Storytelling|

When Joseph Campbell (The Hero with a Thousand Faces) introduced the Quest and following your bliss to the world and ...