What’s the Most Important Personality Trait for a Speaker?
What’s the most important trait for a speaker? Extroversion? Confidence? Charisma? I’m going to suggest something that may surprise you. ...
Video Conferencing Dos and Don’ts
Recently, I had the chance to chat with Michael Frendo, Executive Vice President, Worldwide Engineering for Polycom, about a subject ...
Leadership Is Communication
Most of us assume that we are primarily conscious beings with an intellect that plans, weighs objectives and options, and ...
Blarney, Benghazi, and Binders: Takeaways from the Second Presidential Debate
The debate rematch saw a familiar Governor Romney matched up against a newly invigorated President Obama. There was a lot ...
How to decode other people’s body language
We are all unconscious experts in reading other people’s intentions toward us. We evolved these skills in the woolly mammoth ...
Choreographing your speech
One of the great questions for regular public speakers is, what will the room look like when I get there? ...
Body Language Quick Takes 4 – How to tell when you’re disconnected
We’re living through a disconnected era in our nanosecond-based, 24/7, ADD, mostly virtual world. Our colleagues and fellow workers nod ...
Body Language Quick Takes 3 – Are You Connected?
How do you tell – in body language terms – when you’re connected with someone? A conversation between two connected ...
How to connect better with the people around you
For podcast #6 in the series based on my book Trust Me: Four Steps to Authenticity and Charisma, I talk ...
What goes wrong when you try to communicate?
I spoke last week to an Air Force Special Ops team, and to a pharmaceutical company, about persuasive communications. Today, ...
