Why Speakers Need to Reign in Their Unconscious Minds

Nick Morgan2014-04-24T07:00:10-05:00April 24, 2014|Authenticity, Body Language, Charisma, Emotion, Fear of Public Speaking, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication|

As I discussed last time, the reality is that your conscious mind is beset by essentially random directives from your ...

What to Do with Your Stage Fright

Nick Morgan2014-02-25T07:00:05-05:00February 25, 2014|Fear of Public Speaking, Non-Verbal Communication|

A recent study from Harvard Business School of 400 participants found that if you tell yourself to get excited when ...

How’s Your Imagination as a Public Speaker?

Nick Morgan2014-02-20T07:00:51-05:00February 20, 2014|Book Reviews, Current Affairs, Fear of Public Speaking, Non-Verbal Communication, Tools and Resources, When Things Go Wrong|

Anyone who is seriously interested in peak performance issues in high-adrenaline endeavors like public speaking, sports competition, or leadership, needs ...

How to Recover from Disaster: Super Bowl, Part 2

Nick Morgan2014-02-06T13:23:29-05:00February 6, 2014|Current Affairs, When Things Go Wrong|

I blogged last time about the role of adrenaline in performance and the negative effects of too much adrenaline as ...

Manning, the Broncos, and Adrenaline: What Went Wrong? Lessons for Speakers

Nick Morgan2014-02-04T15:01:29-05:00February 4, 2014|Body Language, Current Affairs, Emotion, Fear of Public Speaking, Non-Verbal Communication, When Things Go Wrong|

Watching the first few calamitous minutes of the Super Bowl -- calamitous, at least, for Peyton Manning and the Broncos ...

Your Worst Speaking Fear Realized: The Michael Bay Meltdown

Nick Morgan2014-01-07T15:46:23-05:00January 7, 2014|Current Affairs, When Things Go Wrong|

Famed movie director Michael Bay had a simple chore to handle at the CES show currently underway in Las Vegas.  ...

I Have Seen the Future of Public Speaking and It Is…

Nick Morgan2013-12-17T07:00:10-05:00December 17, 2013|Current Affairs, Visual Aids and Props|

...Google Glass. Seriously.  I had the chance recently to try out Google’s new gadget.   The nice folks who were making ...

RADA, Richard Quest and Curing the Fear of Public Speaking

Nick Morgan2013-08-29T08:00:23-05:00August 29, 2013|Fear of Public Speaking|

Richard Quest, familiar to CNN fans as that raspy-voiced commentator on business, the English, and the Royal Baby, is terrified ...

A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Ease the Fear of Public Speaking

Nick Morgan2013-07-25T16:01:45-05:00July 25, 2013|Fear of Public Speaking, Podcasts|

For my post today, I'm putting up a recent conversation I had with Dr. Andrew Hill, a neuroscientist and expert ...

Stage Fright? Here’s What to Do

Nick Morgan2013-06-25T17:04:48-05:00June 25, 2013|Fear of Public Speaking|

Peak performance requires peak functioning, both mental and physical.  To accomplish that, a little adrenaline helps.  Yet most of us ...