Manning, the Broncos, and Adrenaline: What Went Wrong? Lessons for Speakers
Watching the first few calamitous minutes of the Super Bowl -- calamitous, at least, for Peyton Manning and the Broncos ...
Your Worst Speaking Fear Realized: The Michael Bay Meltdown
Famed movie director Michael Bay had a simple chore to handle at the CES show currently underway in Las Vegas. ...
Is It Good News To Find Out You’re Following A Bad Speaker?
I posted earlier about a terrible speaker experience at a conference I attended recently. It was an American who gave ...
How to Give a Terrible Speech
I recently attended a conference on matters high tech in the UK. Good conference overall, but one speaker was so ...
The 2 Body Language Mistakes You Make Every Day
We normally don’t think at all – at least, in the casual sense of the word “think” – about where ...
7 Speaking Disasters You Will Experience and What to Do About Them
If you give speeches more than once a year, you will experience speaking catastrophes. Here are 7 that have all ...
5 Ways to Avoid Looking Like an Idiot as a Public Speaker
I let the doctor talk me into a flu shot during my annual physical this week, and I’ve had a ...
How to Fix What’s Wrong with Virtual Meetings
In an earlier blog, I identified 5 problems with online meetings. What can you do to put the life back ...
What’s worse than a verbal tic?
A few weeks back I did a blog post on verbal tics and how to cure them. But just as ...
Bad Rules Never Seem to Die: the 5 Worst Ideas in Public Speaking
I first published this blog post 3 years ago, and I’m sorry to say I still see people following these ...
