The Dirty Secret of Public Speaking – and What to Do About It
One of the dirty secrets of public speaking is that audiences don’t remember much of what you say. I’ve seen ...
How to help your audience remember what you say
Our memories are not as good as even the most pessimistic of us fear they are, alas. That has disturbing implications ...
Storytelling, Framing, and Memory
We expect powerful people to give us the overview, the high-level view. Specifically, a recent study found, we rate people ...
Why Visualization Matters for Speakers
A recent study by cognitive neuroscientists at the University of Oslo found that imagining a series of images produced the ...
Why You Need to Tell Us Stories, Not Dump Information on Us
Everyone seems to get these days that storytelling is important, because we’re awash in data and information and can’t remember ...
Why Go to the Trouble of Telling Stories?
People often ask me about storytelling in speeches – why should they go to the trouble to come up with ...
Your Brain, Memory and Grid Cells
A husband-and-wife team of brain researchers has discovered a kind of brain cell that goes a long way to explaining ...
What is the role of emotion in public speaking?
What is the role of emotion in public speaking? We have all seen speeches that seared their audiences with emotion ...
Two Things Charles Dickens Can Teach Us About Successful Presentations
Charles Dickens is 200 today, and in his honor, this blog will explore a little-known side of the great novelist: ...
Public Speaking and the Holidays
The paid public speaking business is a notoriously seasonal one, with peaks in the spring and fall, and valleys in ...
