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How to Interact with Audiences – Part 1.

Nick Morgan2023-10-17T11:32:41-05:00October 17, 2023|Audience Interaction, Event Planning and Management, Successful Speakers|

One of the consistent surprises for me in the keynote speaking world has been the reluctance of speakers to engage ...

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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 ...

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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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Audiences Don’t Remember What They Hear – Here’s How to Fix That Problem

Nick Morgan2019-03-02T09:01:25-05:00May 31, 2016|Audience Interaction, Content/Writing, Neuroscience, Successful Speakers|

Regular readers of this blog will know that the statistics of remembering are unkind to public speakers everywhere. The research ...

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How Many Questions Should You Ask an Audience?

publicwords2015-12-09T15:11:24-05:00December 9, 2015|Audience Interaction, Authenticity, Listening, Public Words, Successful Speakers|

A recent question from reader and creator of the great blog and book about inquiry, A More Beautiful Question, Warren Berger, had to ...

How Many Questions Should You Ask an Audience?

Nick Morgan2015-11-24T07:00:10-05:00November 24, 2015|Audience Interaction, Authenticity, Listening, Successful Speakers|

A recent question from reader and creator of the great blog and book about inquiry, A More Beautiful Question, Warren Berger, ...

The Scariest Public Speaking Moments Ever

Nick Morgan2014-10-30T07:00:22-05:00October 30, 2014|Audience Interaction, Event Planning and Management, Fear of Public Speaking, When Things Go Wrong|

It’s Halloween – or almost, depending on when you’re reading this – in the US, and it’s a big deal ...

How to Get a Standing Ovation

Nick Morgan2013-07-18T07:00:25-05:00July 18, 2013|Emotion, Speech Writing|

Be honest.  If you’re a speaker, you crave one.  Everyone else gets one, why shouldn’t you?  And those invitations to ...

5 Stupid Speaker Tricks

Nick Morgan2012-02-17T14:06:47-05:00February 17, 2012|Audience Interaction, Visual Aids and Props, When Things Go Wrong|

Speakers do stupid things, like any other group of people.  The problem is that they subject whole audiences to boredom ...

The first time

Nick Morgan2010-08-25T18:47:27-05:00August 25, 2010|Fear of Public Speaking, Rehearsal, When Things Go Wrong|

The first time you give a speech is exciting, unnerving, and inevitably filled with an awkward moment or two.  In ...