What makes a good introduction?
A good introduction is essential to get a speaker off to a good start. The tendency for event hosts to ...
Speakers, Do You Know Your Audience?
When we think about our audiences as speakers, we think about their demographics, or the industry they are in, or ...
In Defense of Freezing
Those of us in the speaking world talk variously about stage fright, or nerves, or adrenaline, but when we’re getting ...
A Counter-Intuitive Way to Deal with Stage Fright
I was instructing the mid-career executives on “Persuasion and Influence” recently at Harvard’s Division of Continuing Education, and I was ...
Speakers Need Community!
In this post I want to address directly a tribe of people that don’t always know they are part of ...
How to Rehearse a Speech
You’ve got the speech booked, and it’s an important one. Of course, they’re all important, or you wouldn’t say ‘yes’, ...
Nick chats with inspirational speaker Trish Kendall about her recent TEDx experience
Trish Kendall inspirational speaker on the subject of enduring success. She believes that true success, enduring success, is ...
Nick speaks with researcher Stephen Turban about doing stand up comedy in Vietnamese
Nick speaks with an old friend Stephen Turban who is running a company in Vietnam....and doing stand up ...
Nick talks to Jim Schleckser about his second book Professional Drinking
Jim Schleckser founded the CEO project and is also a certified sommelier. In this epidode of JOQ Nick ...
Nick and fellow coach Richard Newman discuss the boundaries of virtual communications
Nick Talks to fellow coach Richard Newman about the importance of face to face communications and the boundaries ...
