How to Increase the Persuasiveness of Your Speaking

Nick Morgan2015-07-28T16:58:50-05:00July 28, 2015|Audience Interaction, Body Language, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication|

I was struck recently by a set of research studies that reinforced the importance of touch in persuasion. Touching people ...

Why Can’t I Leave my Body Language to Chance?

Nick Morgan2015-07-21T07:00:51-05:00July 21, 2015|Body Language, Charisma, Emotion, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication|

Regular readers of this blog (and my book Power Cues) will know that I’m an advocate for a version of ...

Why the Conscious Mind Is Mostly Illusion, and What that Means for Speakers

Nick Morgan2015-06-30T10:56:47-05:00June 30, 2015|Body Language, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication|

A new theory, just published in the journal Behaviour and Brain Sciences (Morsella et al., 2015), reaffirms what I argued in ...

Speakers Need to Beware of the Air They Breathe

Nick Morgan2015-06-25T07:00:01-05:00June 25, 2015|Neuroscience, Successful Speakers, Tools and Resources|

Speakers, beware! The very air you breathe could be sabotaging your presentations. A recent study found that dry air – ...

Intentional Communicating

Nick Morgan2015-04-21T07:00:12-05:00April 21, 2015|Audience Interaction, Authenticity, Body Language, Charisma, Emotion, Fear of Public Speaking, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication|

I found myself recently talking to a group of Harvard students at the end of a daylong conference, trying to ...

What a story is and is not – part 2

Nick Morgan2015-04-16T11:22:42-05:00April 16, 2015|Content/Writing, Neuroscience, Speech Writing, Storytelling|

This is the second of a two-part post on storytelling — what it is and is not. As I said last ...

What Storytelling Is Not

Nick Morgan2015-04-14T18:47:13-05:00April 14, 2015|Content/Writing, Neuroscience, Speech Writing, Storytelling|

This is the first of a two-part post on storytelling — what it is and is not. Connecting with another ...

What is the life cycle of a business relationship?

Nick Morgan2015-04-02T14:42:21-05:00April 2, 2015|Content/Writing, Current Affairs, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication|

What is the life cycle of a business relationship? And how does neuroscience help us understand it, if at all? ...

How to Prepare a Presentation

Nick Morgan2015-02-26T15:49:32-05:00February 26, 2015|Audience Interaction, Body Language, Content/Writing, Event Planning and Management, Fear of Public Speaking, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication, Rehearsal, Speech Writing|

How do you prepare for an upcoming presentation? Let’s say it’s an important one, so you’re not going to wing ...

How to Conquer Your Unconscious Fears

Nick Morgan2015-02-24T12:36:08-05:00February 24, 2015|Audience Interaction, Authenticity, Body Language, Emotion, Fear of Public Speaking, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication, When Things Go Wrong|

This is the final post in a series on putting your unconscious mind to work for you, rather than leaving ...