Speakers’ Resolutions for a Successful 2025
If you’re having trouble setting your public speaking goals and resolutions for 2025, here are three to get started on ...
Are You Using Your Muscle Memory?
To be able to deliver a speech successfully, most professional speakers would agree that you need to internalize it, to ...
What If I told You That You Could. . . .?
It’s that time of year when many of us naturally start to think about making new year’s resolutions, to lose ...
Thinking Hurts — Here’s One Thing to Do about It
It hurts to think. A huge research project that studied 5,000 people in 29 countries found that we would rather ...
How to Learn (or Teach) Something New
What’s the best way to learn or to teach something new? A few recent studies suggest some surprising twists on ...
Are You on a Vacation or a Holiday?
A recent study got me thinking about the use of language to indicate connection. The study shows that we are ...
What Do We See When We See Our Opponents?
It’s commonplace for political observers to decry the polarization that afflicts our political scene here in the United States. I ...
Are You Afraid to Speak Your Mind?
Are Americans afraid to speak their minds? According to a recent study, the ‘land of the free and the home ...
Speakers, Do You Know Your Audience?
When we think about our audiences as speakers, we think about their demographics, or the industry they are in, or ...
In Defense of Freezing
Those of us in the speaking world talk variously about stage fright, or nerves, or adrenaline, but when we’re getting ...
