What’s the Most Important Personality Trait for a Speaker?
What’s the most important trait for a speaker? Extroversion? Confidence? Charisma? I’m going to suggest something that may surprise you. ...
Max Martin, Number One Song Hits, and Public Speaking
There’s only one songwriting team who has written more Number One Billboard hits over more years than Max Martin: John ...
Five Body Language Takeaways from President Trump’s Address to Congress
President Kennedy began his famous inaugural address with a line about a torch: Let the word go forth from this ...
Five Ways to Ensure Presentation Success
Clients often ask me, “How can I raise my game?” or “How can I take my speaking to the next ...
Can Political Beliefs Be Changed, or the Cultural Divide Repaired?
The proverbial visitor from Mars – especially one who was here for a return visit -- might be pardoned for ...
Why Speakers Should be Helping Audiences Forget What They Know
There’s a particularly tedious kind of speaker that ostentatiously tries to teach his audience something by having the audience repeatedly ...
What James Bond Can Teach Us About Public Speaking
Sometimes New Year’s resolutions have unintended consequences. I started a new exercise program – with the usual results, which is ...
No Excuses for Not Being at the Top of Your Game
Today I'm cross-posting with David Meerman Scott, speaker extraordinaire, who was kind enough to share his experiences when he had ...
An Analysis of President Trump’s Inaugural Address
What was uppermost in the mind of Mr. Trump on the day of his swearing-in? Apparently, our new president deeply ...
President Obama’s Final Address – What Did He Say and How Did He Say It?
My blog posts this week are all about presidential oratory. First, in this episode, I’ll be analyzing President Obama’s farewell ...
