9 Ways to Interact with an Audience
I often get asked, as a proponent of audience interaction in speeches, how to do exactly that in ways that ...
How to Give a Virtual Introdution
Last week, I updated a post from 2011 that has been perennially popular, on giving an in-person introduction for a ...
If Virtual Communication Is so Important, Why Do I Feel so Bad Using It?
For most people, moving into the digital world to communicate means experiencing significant loss of clarity, ease, and depth. You ...
Two New Business Stories for Corporate Communicators
According the most recent Gallup numbers I could find, American businesses rank about equally with Congress in trust, well below the ...
How to Understand Your Audience
When I’m working with clients, we always start, not with them, but with their audience. Sometimes clients find this a ...
Three Surprising Public Speaking Mistakes
There are some approaches to public speaking that seem, on the face of it, to make sense. But when you ...
Is Storytelling Important?
How important is storytelling? Is it essential in some way to the human endeavor, or is it simply nice to ...
The Five Ways to an Audience’s Heart
The Ancient Greeks and Romans thought hard about the purposes of public speaking. In fact, one story has it that ...
Real Storytelling – A Few Secrets
Most speakers pay lip service to storytelling, but what they really do is relay pieces of stories, anecdotes, or name-dropping ...
Five Ways to Strengthen Your Public Speaking Career
If you’re a speaking pro, you will have noticed that the competition is getting tougher every year. If you speak ...
