How’s Your Poker Face?
The benefits of a poker face are widely extolled in poker but also in life. Poker faces help in cards, ...
What’s the Use of Body Language?
Popular depictions of body language often focus on the ability to decode lying, or scanning someone to detect defensiveness, or ...
Bullying and Body Language
A couple of studies show that the effects of bullying on children are both long-term and significant. Significant, because bullying ...
How to Rehearse a Speech
You’ve got the speech booked, and it’s an important one. Of course, they’re all important, or you wouldn’t say ‘yes’, ...
First, Let’s Kill All the Meetings
It’s a truism that people in organizations of all kinds suffer from too many meetings. As we wind down 2023, ...
Presenting to the Executive Team? Here’s What to Think About – Part 1
During the pandemic, I worked with mid-level executives across a variety of industries who had to navigate a particularly difficult ...
5 Ways to Handle a Hostile Audience
What if your audience is hostile? How do you handle it? It’s a sad commentary of the times that this ...
Now That the Pandemic Is Officially Over…
Human communication is difficult at best. We don’t hear each other perfectly in a noisy, fast-paced world, we don’t listen ...
The Real Purpose of Eye Contact
Among the many common misunderstandings about body language is a very basic one: the real purpose of eye contact. We ...
Why One Conversation a Day Is Essential for Us Humans
With a hat tip, or maybe a dedication would be a better word, to my dear friend Riaz Meghji. I ...
