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How’s Your Poker Face?

Nick Morgan2024-08-27T13:17:14-05:00August 27, 2024|Body Language, Emotion, Non-Verbal Communication|

The benefits of a poker face are widely extolled in poker but also in life. Poker faces help in cards, ...

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The Pandemic Epidemic of Loneliness

Nick Morgan2021-11-08T07:52:36-05:00August 31, 2021|Audience Interaction, Body Language, Emotion|

A good deal has been written about the increase in negative mental health indicators during the pandemic.  Drug abuse, mental ...

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Why Public Speaking Stars Need to Be Good Collaborators

Nick Morgan2020-08-10T11:01:32-05:00August 11, 2020|Community Building, Current Affairs, Successful Speakers|

One of the surprises for many people early on in their professional speaking careers is how collaborative it is – ...

Why Speakers Need to Be Open and What That Really Means

Nick Morgan2018-03-22T04:00:09-05:00March 22, 2018|Body Language, Community Building, Fear of Public Speaking|

I talk about openness with clients all the time.  Why is it so important, and what does it achieve?  And ...

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What’s the Most Important Personality Trait for a Speaker?

Nick Morgan2019-03-02T06:04:24-05:00April 6, 2017|Audience Interaction, Authenticity, Content/Writing, Current Affairs, Listening, Speech Writing, Storytelling, Successful Speakers|

What’s the most important trait for a speaker?  Extroversion?  Confidence? Charisma? I’m going to suggest something that may surprise you.  ...

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A Speaker’s — and Audience’s — Bill of Rights

Nick Morgan2019-03-02T09:12:10-05:00April 14, 2016|Audience Interaction, Authenticity, Current Affairs, Event Planning and Management, Listening, Speaker Critiques, Successful Speakers, When Things Go Wrong|

We don’t have a speaker’s bill of rights, or an audience’s for that matter. But one day recently, after witnessing ...

Five Tips For Effective Communicating

Nick Morgan2015-04-23T07:00:43-05:00April 23, 2015|Audience Interaction, Body Language, Charisma, Content/Writing, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication, Speech Writing, Storytelling|

I spent a day recently working with a team of people who belong to a part of the government that ...

Making Business Relationships Work

Nick Morgan2015-04-09T07:00:22-05:00April 9, 2015|Audience Interaction, Body Language, Emotion, Listening, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication|

In two previous posts I discussed some preliminary work I’ve been doing on the life cycle of a business relationship. I ...

How to Communicate Early in a Business Relationship

Nick Morgan2015-04-07T11:33:51-05:00April 7, 2015|Authenticity, Body Language, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication|

In a previous post I discussed some preliminary work I’ve been doing on the life cycle of a business relationship. ...

Where Do You Rate on Five Speaker Success Factors?

Nick Morgan2013-07-16T18:03:24-05:00July 16, 2013|Body Language, Non-Verbal Communication, Successful Speakers|

It’s usual in the world of psychology to refer to 5 personality traits (or continua) as determining most of the ...