Is Empathy Important for Leaders or Speakers?
In the speaking business we spend a lot of time telling stories designed to elicit empathy in our audiences. Teachers ...
Empathy Is up to Us
Empathy is up to us. And it’s on the decline. We have reason to be worried, certainly here in the ...
How Empathetic Are We? Has the Pandemic Turned Us into Trolls?
If, like me, you’re a little worried about the state of humanity post-pandemic, then our Empathy Quiz will be of ...
Do you know how to be empathetic?
Listening to my good friend and fellow speaker Martin G. Moore deliver a splendid speech on leadership recently, I was ...
What Audiences Want from Their Speakers: Personas, Part 2
In my last post, I talked about the importance of determining what kind of persona you wished to put forward ...
How’s Your Empathy Holding Up?
Public Words has been running an empathy quiz for the past 2 years, and we now have 2,000 responses. So ...
Make Every Conversation Count with Riaz Meghji
Before Riaz Meghji became a thought leader, speaker, and author of Every Conversation Counts, he was the host, for 17 ...
How Empathetic Are You? The Empathy Quiz Gives Some Clues
I’ve been speaking in Washington DC recently at a variety of government venues, talking about the ideas and research in ...
Human Empathy and the Virtual World, Part Two
This is the second of two articles adapted from my new book, Can You Hear Me?, due out from Harvard ...
Human Empathy and the Virtual World, Part One
I’ve been posting recently about the perils of our life today, living as we do half-face-to-face, half virtually, adapting the ...
