In Praise of Listening
For my final podcast based on Trust Me: Four Steps to Authenticity and Charisma, I talk about the 4th step ...
Finding passion in your voice and gestures
For this penultimate podcast in the series, I talk about how to use your voice and gestures to generate passion. ...
Should you write an ebook
We've been getting lots of questions about eBooks so we decided to dedicate our first Public Words newsletter to the ...
The Secret of Good Storytelling
The secret of good storytelling in presentations, or anywhere else for that matter, is not to make up a new ...
Why you must rehearse: To avoid a public speaking disaster like this one
A few years back, we worked with the CEO of a company on a speech assignment that promised to be ...
Win by Telling Great Stories with Peter Guber
Peter Guber has written a masterful additional to the storytelling library shelf with his book, Tell To Win. In the ...
Guy Kawasaki’s Enchantment: What’s In It For Public Speakers?
Guy Kawasaki enchants with Enchantment. It’s a lovely word, but of course Guy wants it to mean more than just ...
If You Must Use Power Point, Here’s How To Do It – 5 Tips From Hans Rosling
One of the modern masters of data – and specifically data presented to an audience on a slide – is ...
What goes wrong when you try to communicate?
I spoke last week to an Air Force Special Ops team, and to a pharmaceutical company, about persuasive communications. Today, ...
What Happens When You “Wing” A Speech? Ask Tony Hsieh
In his NY Times Bestseller, Delivering Happiness, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh advises public speakers to “wing it.” I am driven ...
