What Happens When Speeches Go Wrong?

Nick Morgan2015-10-20T13:04:20-05:00October 20, 2015|Audience Interaction, Authenticity, Content/Writing, Event Planning and Management, Successful Speakers, When Things Go Wrong|

When speeches go wrong, most often it’s the speaker who gets the blame. But a better way of thinking about ...

A Good Use of PowerPoint

Nick Morgan2015-10-08T07:00:29-05:00October 8, 2015|Content/Writing, Visual Aids and Props|

Readers of this blog will know I’m not a big fan of slideware for speakers. This position is so heretical ...

The Dirty Secret of Public Speaking – and What to Do About It

Nick Morgan2015-09-17T07:00:02-05:00September 17, 2015|Audience Interaction, Content/Writing, Neuroscience, Speech Writing|

One of the dirty secrets of public speaking is that audiences don’t remember much of what you say. I’ve seen ...

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Eight Ways to Begin a Speech

Nick Morgan2015-07-14T10:03:05-05:00July 14, 2015|Content/Writing, Emotion, Speech Writing, Storytelling|

The most difficult moments of a speech are those seemingly endless seconds of stage time while you get to your ...

What We Can Learn from President Obama’s Eulogy for Reverend Pinckney

Nick Morgan2015-07-02T11:37:32-05:00July 2, 2015|Authenticity, Charisma, Content/Writing, Current Affairs, Emotion, Speaker Critiques|

The public speaking world has been abuzz for the past week about a standout speech delivered by President Obama in ...

Five Common Rookie Storytelling Mistakes

Nick Morgan2015-06-18T07:00:05-05:00June 18, 2015|Content/Writing, Speech Writing, Storytelling|

In honor of this week’s launch of our new online course, Presentation Prep: 10 Steps to Persuasive Storytelling, I’m devoting ...

Authenticity, Artifice, and Presentation Prep

Nick Morgan2015-06-16T07:00:54-05:00June 16, 2015|Authenticity, Content/Writing, Speech Writing, Storytelling|

We live in an era when the demand for authenticity trumps a number of qualities that our society (and others) ...

What’s Wrong With Acronyms?

Nick Morgan2015-06-11T07:00:02-05:00June 11, 2015|Content/Writing, Speech Writing, Storytelling|

Just because it’s possible to sum up the key takeaways in your presentation in one of those annoying acronyms doesn’t ...

How Much Should You Customize Your Speech?

Nick Morgan2015-06-09T07:00:06-05:00June 9, 2015|Content/Writing, Speech Writing, Storytelling|

Chris Brogan recently wrote in a blog post about his struggles with writing a new presentation for every occasion versus ...

How To Get People To Pay Attention To You

Nick Morgan2015-06-02T07:00:37-05:00June 2, 2015|Content/Writing, Speech Writing, Storytelling|

We all know that the industrialized world is awash in information today; many have observed that this information overload puts ...