How Good Are We at Detecting Liars?
How good are we at reading each other’s body language? This is an essential question for communication, since we convey ...
Why One Conversation a Day Is Essential for Us Humans
With a hat tip, or maybe a dedication would be a better word, to my dear friend Riaz Meghji. I ...
Returning to the Workplace? Time to Check Your Unconscious Biases!
Now that many organizations here in the US are going back to the workplace, even as some are deciding that ...
Speakers, How Do You Feel About Your Body?
When you stand up to speak in front of an audience, what, besides the inevitable stage fright, do you experience? ...
Human Empathy and the Virtual World, Part Two
This is the second of two articles adapted from my new book, Can You Hear Me?, due out from Harvard ...
You Are Already a Body Language Expert
There’s a good deal of nonsense written about body language. The idea most often expressed is that experts in the ...
What About Second Impressions?
I posted last time about first impressions and the unconscious biases we all have. And how it’s therefore important to ...
Why We Need Conferences
Picture a worker in a cubicle. Gray walls, gray chair, gray computer. Gray hum of background noise all around. When ...
Body Language for Valentine’s Day
As most of us who are old enough to vote have learned, words and body language don’t always synch up. ...
How to Reprogram Your Brain and Gut for Excellence
The human body is an assemblage of systems that have a surprising degree of autonomy from one another, and that ...
