What Is a Narrative Reversal and Why Does It Matter?
Another in an occasional series on storytelling When I ask my mid-career executives in the Harvard Professional Education and Development ...
How to Structure a Speech or Presentation
Regular readers of this blog will know that I am a proponent of the Ancient Greeks’ way of thinking about ...
How Long Do You Have to Prepare a Presentation?
What do you do first if you have 6 weeks to prepare a presentation (or speech), 6 days to prepare ...
How to Write an Unforgettable Speech
Speeches are like flowers, or sonnets, for the most part – a moment’s monument. With a few exceptions, they are ...
Are there three kinds of intelligence, and should we speak to them?
I’ve got bad news for fans of the so-called learning styles – visual, auditory, kinesthetic or tactile. They have been ...
The 5 Most Common Speaker Prep Mistakes
What are the mistakes that speakers make over and over again when preparing their speech content? Here are the 5 ...
Use Anchoring to Strengthen Your Arguments
Anchoring bias is one of those psychological constructs that is very familiar to psychologists but less widely talked about by ...
The Learning Paradox for Speakers
The human brain is a much more powerful learning machine than we think. A recent study (Buch et al., 2021) ...
Is Storytelling Dangerous?
What is the role of storytelling in our world today? Stories are what people hang on to in order to ...
Find Your Red Thread, with Tamsen Webster
Tamsen Webster is my favorite other speaking coach. I love how Tamsen’s work focuses on making the idea behind the ...
