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Keynote Speakers – Don’t Neglect Q and A!

Nick Morgan2024-06-11T12:29:49-05:00June 11, 2024|Audience Interaction, Event Planning and Management, Successful Speakers|

If you are a keynote speaker, you may often be asked to spend the last 15 minutes or so of ...

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Is Pausing Dangerous for Public Speaking?

Nick Morgan2021-03-29T15:18:59-05:00March 30, 2021|Audience Interaction, Listening, Successful Speakers|

I’ve written a number of times about the power of the pause in public speaking – pausing before you start ...

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How to Ace the Q and A

Nick Morgan2019-08-06T00:29:08-05:00August 6, 2019|Audience Interaction, Body Language, Listening|

I’ve seen many speakers give a great speech only to lose the audience through fumbles during the Q and A.  ...

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How to Handle Q and A, Part 2

Nick Morgan2017-11-21T04:00:32-05:00November 21, 2017|Audience Interaction, Listening, Non-Verbal Communication|

This is the second article of two on how to handle Q and A. In the first of these two ...

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How to Handle Q and A, Part 1

Nick Morgan2019-03-02T05:30:22-05:00November 16, 2017|Audience Interaction, Listening, Non-Verbal Communication|

Why go to all the trouble of preparing a speech when you can just take questions?  I’ve been asked that ...

Phil Simon’s Message Has Been Received

Nick Morgan2015-03-03T07:00:56-05:00March 3, 2015|Book Reviews|

I’ve known Phil Simon for a while now as a speaker and author on management, and so when he told ...

The Scariest Public Speaking Moments Ever

Nick Morgan2014-10-30T07:00:22-05:00October 30, 2014|Audience Interaction, Event Planning and Management, Fear of Public Speaking, When Things Go Wrong|

It’s Halloween – or almost, depending on when you’re reading this – in the US, and it’s a big deal ...

How to handle hecklers and loudmouths

Nick Morgan2014-08-05T13:54:39-05:00August 5, 2014|Audience Interaction, Listening, When Things Go Wrong|

We’ve all been there as a speaker, watching (and listening) with a fast-sinking heart as some loudmouth begins asking a ...

How to Succeed at Q n A and Other Mysteries

Nick Morgan2013-07-30T07:00:16-05:00July 30, 2013|Audience Interaction, Podcasts|

Ben Decker is the CEO of Decker Communications, a fellow communications company on the West Coast.  We crossed paths years ...

Bad Rules Never Seem to Die: the 5 Worst Ideas in Public Speaking

Nick Morgan2012-08-21T11:26:39-05:00August 21, 2012|Visual Aids and Props, When Things Go Wrong|

I first published this blog post 3 years ago, and I’m sorry to say I still see people following these ...