Are You on a Vacation or a Holiday?
A recent study got me thinking about the use of language to indicate connection. The study shows that we are ...
How’s Your Poker Face?
The benefits of a poker face are widely extolled in poker but also in life. Poker faces help in cards, ...
The Real Purpose of Eye Contact
Among the many common misunderstandings about body language is a very basic one: the real purpose of eye contact. We ...
What’s Your Speaker Persona?
One of my favorite activities to work on with speakers is developing their persona. Speakers rarely get to that point ...
How Your Voice Will Help You Succeed or Fail as a Speaker
What do audiences want? They want a speaker to succeed, because that means their time has been well spent. When ...
Why do we misunderstand each other more than ever before?
For this week's post, here's a brief video delving into the communications challenges we all face in the half-real, half-virtual ...
When Body Language Is, and Isn’t, Effective
The most important thing to understand about body language is that we humans don't care about it. Now, of course, ...
Talking to Teens and Other Challenges
According to some new research, our sensitivity to negative expressions and threats varies with age. We’re most sensitive as teens, ...
Working Online in Business: Guidelines for Success (Part 1)
Last week I started posting about how to use social networking in a business setting. This week, I’m continuing that ...
The Problem with Online Feedback, Part 2
Last time I talked about the differences between explicit and implicit feedback, how implicit feedback is missing from the virtual ...
