The Public Speaker’s To-Do List for 2015

Nick Morgan2015-01-06T07:00:10-05:00January 6, 2015|Audience Interaction, Charisma, Community Building, Content/Writing, Platform, Social Media, Speaker Marketing|

Happy New Year. Is this the year you break out as a speaker, at a level that matches your ambition? ...

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How Do You Close A Speech?

Nick Morgan2019-05-01T08:59:07-05:00December 16, 2014|Audience Interaction, Content/Writing, Event Planning and Management, Speech Writing|

How should you close a speech? I recently had a query from a fellow coach who specializes in working with ...

What John Lewis Can Teach Speakers About Storytelling and Emotion

Nick Morgan2014-11-13T07:00:39-05:00November 13, 2014|Content/Writing, Current Affairs, Emotion, Storytelling|

Speakers often struggle with how to get the emotion they know they need to move audiences into a speech. Perhaps ...

On Being Brief

Nick Morgan2014-11-06T07:00:28-05:00November 6, 2014|Book Reviews, Books, Content/Writing, eBooks (Electronic), Storytelling|

Attention spans are shrinking. ADD and ADHD is on the rise – they say. People are overloaded with information. Keynote ...

The Difference Between Liberal and Conservative Audiences

Nick Morgan2014-10-16T07:00:38-05:00October 16, 2014|Audience Interaction, Content/Writing, Speech Writing, Storytelling|

Most countries have a political spectrum that divides along conservative v liberal lines. In the US, it’s the Republicans v ...

The Toughest Speaking Gig of All

Nick Morgan2014-10-07T20:26:13-05:00October 7, 2014|Content/Writing, Speech Writing, Storytelling|

I usually write about the challenges of professional and executive speaking, but there’s one speaking gig that presents difficulties even ...

When You Have to Deliver the Bad News….

Nick Morgan2014-09-25T07:00:13-05:00September 25, 2014|Content/Writing, Speech Writing, Storytelling, When Things Go Wrong|

Speakers sometimes have to deliver bad news. It’s not a pleasant prospect for most of us; we prefer to keep ...

A Few Things I’ve Learned About the Speaking Business

Nick Morgan2014-09-23T07:00:28-05:00September 23, 2014|Audience Interaction, Content/Writing, Event Planning and Management, Platform, Speaker Marketing, Successful Speakers|

It may be presumptuous of me to reflect on nearly 30 years in the speaking business and offer a few ...

It’s the Little Stressors That Will Kill You

Nick Morgan2014-09-18T07:00:34-05:00September 18, 2014|Authenticity, Content/Writing, Event Planning and Management, Neuroscience, Rehearsal, Storytelling|

Recently I was busy in an airplane-hangar-sized room helping a couple of speakers get ready to speak to an audience of ...

Which Is Better – PowerPoint or a FlipChart?

Nick Morgan2014-09-11T07:00:34-05:00September 11, 2014|Content/Writing, Speech Writing, Tech Tips, Tools and Resources, Visual Aids and Props|

Regular readers of this blog will know that I’m not a fan of PowerPoint (or any other slide software) – ...