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Can You Handle Your Adrenaline? Can Your Audience?

Nick Morgan2019-03-02T08:27:24-05:00August 4, 2016|Audience Interaction, Body Language, Emotion, Fear of Public Speaking, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication, When Things Go Wrong|

Most speakers get to know their adrenaline fight-or-flight response very, very well. To be sure, I’ve met a few speakers ...

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Ah – Is Umming a Bad Thing?

Nick Morgan2019-03-02T09:04:26-05:00May 10, 2016|Audience Interaction, Authenticity, Current Affairs, Emotion, Fear of Public Speaking, When Things Go Wrong|

I once had to follow a speech by the famous sexologist Doctor Ruth. In fact, I was in her audience, ...

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When Is It OK for a Speaker to Yell at an Audience?

Nick Morgan2019-03-02T09:06:26-05:00April 28, 2016|Audience Interaction, Authenticity, Current Affairs, Speaker Critiques, When Things Go Wrong|

When is it OK for a speaker to upbraid an audience? A frequent reader of this blog sent me this ...

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A Speaker’s — and Audience’s — Bill of Rights

Nick Morgan2019-03-02T09:12:10-05:00April 14, 2016|Audience Interaction, Authenticity, Current Affairs, Event Planning and Management, Listening, Speaker Critiques, Successful Speakers, When Things Go Wrong|

We don’t have a speaker’s bill of rights, or an audience’s for that matter. But one day recently, after witnessing ...

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My Top 10 Public Speaking Peeves

Nick Morgan2019-03-02T09:14:30-05:00April 5, 2016|Audience Interaction, Body Language, Charisma, Content/Writing, Non-Verbal Communication, Speech Writing, Storytelling, Successful Speakers, When Things Go Wrong|

I often post blogs on how to create and give great presentations. Occasionally, I talk about what not to do. ...

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Public Speaking Professionalism, Performance, and the Beatles

Nick Morgan2019-03-02T09:22:46-05:00March 1, 2016|Audience Interaction, Authenticity, Charisma, Non-Verbal Communication, Rehearsal, Successful Speakers, When Things Go Wrong|

How much should you rehearse your speech? What does it mean to be a professional speaker? I often hear from ...

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The 10 Commandments of Presentations, Updated

Nick Morgan2015-12-22T07:00:01-05:00December 22, 2015|Audience Interaction, Authenticity, Content/Writing, Humor, Non-Verbal Communication, Speech Writing, Storytelling, Successful Speakers, When Things Go Wrong|

For my last blog post of 2015, I'm inspired to update a post I did a few years back. I.Thou ...

What Happens When Speeches Go Wrong?

Nick Morgan2015-10-20T13:04:20-05:00October 20, 2015|Audience Interaction, Authenticity, Content/Writing, Event Planning and Management, Successful Speakers, When Things Go Wrong|

When speeches go wrong, most often it’s the speaker who gets the blame. But a better way of thinking about ...

What’s Holding You Back?

Nick Morgan2015-10-06T07:00:13-05:00October 6, 2015|Authenticity, Emotion, Fear of Public Speaking, Neuroscience, When Things Go Wrong|

I started thinking last week about the fears that hold executives back from performing with all their moxie when giving ...

What Health Care Executives Fear

Nick Morgan2015-10-01T07:00:35-05:00October 1, 2015|Authenticity, Emotion, Fear of Public Speaking, Rehearsal, When Things Go Wrong|

I had the pleasure recently of working with a small number of health care executives on their public personas and ...