How to Change Minds with a Speech
What’s the best way to prepare people for change? This question is one that we speakers often ask ourselves, more ...
How to Use Memory to Help with Stage Fright
We know from a good deal of research on memory how unreliable it is, partly because retrieving a memory is ...
Memory, Virtual Speaking, and Covid-19
I’ve been thinking and researching about memory lately, because I’m curious to see how our learning abilities (of which memory ...
What to Do About the Fear of Public Speaking
In what is arguably one of the best half-dozen science fiction books of all time, Dune, its author Frank Herbert ...
Why do we misunderstand each other more than ever before?
For this week's post, here's a brief video delving into the communications challenges we all face in the half-real, half-virtual ...
Information Is Addictive – and That’s Good News for Speakers
My good friend Mitch Joel and I share a trait: we’re both infovores. An infovore is someone who “indulges in ...
Is Anger Addictive? Is It Worse Online?
Can we actually become addicted to anger? I’ve posted a number of times about how we seem to be living ...
The Can You Hear Me? Book Tour Comes to London
Harvard Business Press and Havas Media recently teamed up to sponsor my book talk on Can You Hear Me? in ...
What Speakers Need to Know About the Brain
Fall is officially here and it’s time to put away the pails, shovels and sunscreen and get back to work. ...
Coping with the Stress of Public Speaking
It’s no secret that public speaking is stressful for most people. Helping people cope with that stress is something I ...
