Two New Business Stories for Corporate Communicators

Nick Morgan2018-03-15T04:00:41-05:00March 15, 2018|Content/Writing, Current Affairs, Storytelling|

According the most recent Gallup numbers I could find, American businesses rank about equally with Congress in trust, well below the ...

Is Storytelling Important?

Nick Morgan2018-02-22T04:00:32-05:00February 22, 2018|Content/Writing, Current Affairs, Storytelling|

How important is storytelling?  Is it essential in some way to the human endeavor, or is it simply nice to ...

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Real Storytelling – A Few Secrets

Nick Morgan2018-02-01T04:00:49-05:00February 1, 2018|Content/Writing, Emotion, Storytelling|

Most speakers pay lip service to storytelling, but what they really do is relay pieces of stories, anecdotes, or name-dropping ...

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What’s Missing from Virtual Communication (part 2)?

Nick Morgan2017-11-30T04:00:31-05:00November 30, 2017|Content/Writing, Neuroscience, Storytelling|

My Grandma, when she was alive, loved to talk about her first trip to Europe as a young ingénue.  It ...

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What’s Missing in Virtual Communications?

Nick Morgan2019-03-02T05:28:57-05:00November 28, 2017|Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication, Storytelling|

We humans learned to communicate when we dressed in skins, fought with clubs, and talked in grunts.  The human community ...

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Three quick tips for improving your connection with your audience

Nick Morgan2019-03-02T05:41:26-05:00October 26, 2017|Audience Interaction, Authenticity, Community Building, Content/Writing, Listening, Platform, Social Media, Speaker Marketing, Speech Writing, Storytelling|

I posted the last time on the importance of the voice for an empathetic connection with your audience.  Of course, ...

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Counter-intuitive speaking lessons from the road

Nick Morgan2019-03-02T05:50:20-05:00September 21, 2017|Body Language, Community Building, Current Affairs, Rehearsal, Storytelling, Successful Speakers|

I was inspired by some recent client stories of successes and failures to create a short list of counter-intuitive speaking ...

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The Five Rings, Strategy, and Public Speaking

Nick Morgan2017-07-04T14:07:18-05:00July 4, 2017|Audience Interaction, Authenticity, Storytelling, Successful Speakers|

I’ve been reading and re-reading the basic Asian books of wisdom over the years in the hopes of acquiring a ...

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Speakers and Their Hair — How Should You Style Yourself?

Nick Morgan2017-06-29T04:00:52-05:00June 29, 2017|Audience Interaction, Authenticity, Content/Writing, Event Planning and Management, Speech Writing, Storytelling, Successful Speakers|

After all those principles, here’s a look at an arguably lighter issue:  speaker hairstyles. Here’s the problem for the modern ...

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Principles of Public Speaking – the Final Seven

Nick Morgan2017-06-27T04:00:28-05:00June 27, 2017|Audience Interaction, Authenticity, Content/Writing, Current Affairs, Emotion, Event Planning and Management, Neuroscience, Speech Writing, Storytelling, Successful Speakers|

With this blog post, I’m concluding a series of public speaking principles that are a summation of what I’ve learned ...