How’s Your Poker Face?
The benefits of a poker face are widely extolled in poker but also in life. Poker faces help in cards, ...
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 ...
Healing Humans Requires the Communal Touch
I posted earlier this year about how a recent study showed that a single conversation a day with another human ...
Presenting to the Executive Team? Here’s What to Think About – Part 1
During the pandemic, I worked with mid-level executives across a variety of industries who had to navigate a particularly difficult ...
Are there any reliable body language ‘tells’?
There’s a lot of misinformation about body language sloshing around in the information ocean that is the Internet. Perhaps the ...
Are you good at spotting a lie?
How good are you a spotting a liar? Most people think they are above average, but the research clearly shows ...
What’s Your Speaker Persona?
One of my favorite activities to work on with speakers is developing their persona. Speakers rarely get to that point ...
Analyzing the Rhetoric and Delivery of President Biden’s First SOTU
President Theodore Roosevelt famously called the U. S. presidency a ‘bully pulpit,” by which he meant a wonderful platform from ...
Returning to the Workplace? Time to Check Your Unconscious Biases!
Now that many organizations here in the US are going back to the workplace, even as some are deciding that ...
A Neuroscientific Revolution?
Thomas Kuhn, in his book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, argued that science proceeds in fits and starts. Scientists believe ...
