What Should You Do About Filler Words and Sounds?
In this blog post I’m delighted to talk to teammate Jessica Cooper, who helps both speakers and singers develop strong, ...
How to Deal with Failure
Anyone who speaks, either professionally or for one’s job, experiences a failure of the attempted communication at least occasionally. The ...
How Long Do Emotions Last?
Every now and then I run across a neuroscientific study that makes me think in a new way, because it ...
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 ...
Five Common Speaker Delivery Mistakes
In a previous post, I talked about 5 common errors that speakers make when focusing on the content of their ...
What to Do When the Worst Happens?
What do you do if you lose your place in your speech, and you search in vain for a seeming ...
How to Reduce the Anxiety of Public Speaking
Anxiety and stress go with public speaking for all but a lucky few, and readers of this blog will ...
Kintsugi and Public Speaking
The Japanese concept of Kintsugi at a deep level is similar to our idea of not letting the perfect be ...
Communication in the time of Coronavirus
These are deeply unsettling times. We’re in the midst of a public health crisis and yet for most of us ...
How Helpful Is Failure Really?
Failure is fashionable. At least to judge from the public speaking world, where it is a popular topic and where ...
