What Speakers Need to Know About the Brain
Fall is officially here and it’s time to put away the pails, shovels and sunscreen and get back to work. ...
When Are the Right Times for Silence in Public Speaking?
We are drowning in a tsunami of online communications. From Twitter to Facebook to Instagram to LinkedIn, and a host ...
Human Empathy and the Virtual World, Part One
I’ve been posting recently about the perils of our life today, living as we do half-face-to-face, half virtually, adapting the ...
Why Executives Need to Become Intentional Communicators
For executives with a public-facing role, the game has changed. You can’t rely on common sense or instinct or winging ...
The Difficulty with Online Beginnings
This post is adapted from my forthcoming book, Can You Hear Me?, to be published by Harvard in October. Recently, ...
Why You Need an Owl
One of the surprising discoveries I made while researching my new book, Can You Hear Me?, due out from Harvard ...
More Fear of Public Speaking
The fear of public speaking is real and lodges somewhere on a scale of annoying-to-debilitating for most people. I’ve posted ...
Amazing Human Tricks and Public Speaking
By now, if you’ve wasted even a small amount of time on the Internet when you should be doing more ...
The Problem with Online Feedback
In an earlier blog post I talked about the difference between implicit and explicit feedback. Implicit feedback is what you ...
How to Connect with an Audience Fast
Speakers, like executives, salespeople, managers, trainers, consultants, advisors, engineers – the whole information society, in fact – are terribly afraid ...
