The Little Trick That Will Make Your Audiences Trust You

Nick Morgan2015-08-20T07:00:23-05:00August 20, 2015|Audience Interaction, Body Language, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication|

I am happy to report good news for speakers. A recent study in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin offers ...

Beware Perfectionism in Public Speaking

Nick Morgan2015-08-13T14:58:57-05:00August 13, 2015|Audience Interaction, Authenticity, Emotion, Event Planning and Management, Neuroscience, When Things Go Wrong|

I saw a study recently in the journal Personality and Social Psychology Review (I read these things so you don’t ...

How To Boost Your Memory – And Your Audience’s

Nick Morgan2015-08-04T07:00:14-05:00August 4, 2015|Audience Interaction, Body Language, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication, Successful Speakers|

First the bad news. Yoga does not significantly boost your memory. Very good for you in many ways – I ...

A Simple Body Language Trick to Increase Your Audience’s Trust in You

Nick Morgan2015-07-30T14:13:09-05:00July 30, 2015|Audience Interaction, Body Language, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication|

I’ve written occasionally about the power of mirroring to create trust in human interaction. The reason is relatively straightforward – ...

How to Increase the Persuasiveness of Your Speaking

Nick Morgan2015-07-28T16:58:50-05:00July 28, 2015|Audience Interaction, Body Language, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication|

I was struck recently by a set of research studies that reinforced the importance of touch in persuasion. Touching people ...

How to Warm Up for a Presentation

Nick Morgan2015-07-16T07:00:14-05:00July 16, 2015|Audience Interaction, Body Language, Fear of Public Speaking, Non-Verbal Communication, Rehearsal|

Today’s the day. You have a presentation to give. It’s your biggest audience yet. The organizers tell you there could ...

What’s the secret to learning?

Nick Morgan2015-05-05T07:00:12-05:00May 5, 2015|Audience Interaction, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication, Storytelling, Tools and Resources, Videos|

What’s the secret to effective learning? That’s a question that educators, teachers, professors, researchers, and the Armed Forces have been ...

Can You Present Well Sitting Down?

Nick Morgan2015-04-30T07:00:30-05:00April 30, 2015|Audience Interaction, Authenticity, Body Language, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication|

One question I get asked regularly is about sitting down to present. If there are only a few people in ...

Five Tips For Effective Communicating

Nick Morgan2015-04-23T07:00:43-05:00April 23, 2015|Audience Interaction, Body Language, Charisma, Content/Writing, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication, Speech Writing, Storytelling|

I spent a day recently working with a team of people who belong to a part of the government that ...

Intentional Communicating

Nick Morgan2015-04-21T07:00:12-05:00April 21, 2015|Audience Interaction, Authenticity, Body Language, Charisma, Emotion, Fear of Public Speaking, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication|

I found myself recently talking to a group of Harvard students at the end of a daylong conference, trying to ...