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Public Words are delighted to join with the world and celebrate World Speech Day 2021.  

Nick Morgan2021-03-29T15:20:42-05:00March 15, 2021|Public Words, Speech Writing, Successful Speakers, Uncategorized|

Simon Gibson launched World Speech Day in 2015.  As founder, he says of the origin of the organization, “I am ...

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The low hanging fruit of public speaking, and yet no one does it?

Nick Morgan2020-02-26T11:10:34-05:00February 26, 2020|Audience Interaction, Authenticity, Speech Writing, Successful Speakers, Tools and Resources|

I regularly get asked by speakers, meeting planners, speaker bureau folks – just about everyone in the speaking business, in ...

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What Are the Chapters in a Change Journey?

Nick Morgan2019-10-22T17:27:05-05:00October 22, 2019|Content/Writing, Speech Writing, Storytelling|

At a recent conference, I was asked to talk about change – on short notice. The forcing function turned out ...

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What Is a Keynote Speech?

Nick Morgan2019-08-19T07:05:20-05:00August 20, 2019|Event Planning and Management, Public Words, Speech Writing|

What is a keynote speech?  That’s not a trick question.  I ask because keynote speeches take so many forms it ...

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How Can You Make a Technical Subject Interesting?

Nick Morgan2019-04-23T03:31:04-05:00April 25, 2019|Content/Writing, Speech Writing, Storytelling|

How can academics and specialist in arcane forms of knowledge take their subject matter and present it to general audiences ...

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Why Is Most Public Speaking So Awful?

Nick Morgan2019-04-11T14:05:59-05:00April 11, 2019|Content/Writing, Listening, Speech Writing|

A few years back on this blog I asked myself the question, why is so much public speaking – especially ...

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King and Connecting with an Audience

Nick Morgan2019-03-02T04:54:20-05:00February 5, 2019|Communications, Speech Writing, Storytelling|

What makes a great speech?  Every year around this time in the US we honor Martin Luther King, Jr, for […]

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The Problem With PowerPoint

Nick Morgan2019-03-02T05:04:28-05:00January 8, 2019|Branding, Communications, Speaker Marketing, Speech Writing, Successful Speakers|

One of the unintended consequences of the increased competition of the last few years in the public speaking world is ...

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My New Year’s Resolutions for 2019

Nick Morgan2019-01-03T04:43:08-05:00January 3, 2019|Public Words, Social Media, Speaker Critiques, Speech Writing, Successful Speakers, When Things Go Wrong|

Happy New Year 2019!  If you thought last year was wild, weird and, well, pretty awful, then obviously you were ...

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How to Structure a Great Speech

Nick Morgan2018-12-13T05:08:48-05:00December 13, 2018|Content/Writing, Speech Writing, Storytelling, Successful Speakers, Uncategorized|

How do you structure a great speech? Here’s a quick way to think about a speech structure that works in many ...