Why Communicate Face to Face?

Nick Morgan2015-11-12T07:00:07-05:00November 12, 2015|Body Language, Emotion, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication|

Audiences complain about it. Public speakers both fear and crave it. Companies spend a lot of money on it, and ...

What’s Holding You Back?

Nick Morgan2015-10-06T07:00:13-05:00October 6, 2015|Authenticity, Emotion, Fear of Public Speaking, Neuroscience, When Things Go Wrong|

I started thinking last week about the fears that hold executives back from performing with all their moxie when giving ...

What Health Care Executives Fear

Nick Morgan2015-10-01T07:00:35-05:00October 1, 2015|Authenticity, Emotion, Fear of Public Speaking, Rehearsal, When Things Go Wrong|

I had the pleasure recently of working with a small number of health care executives on their public personas and ...

The Dangers of Last-Minute Changes to a Presentation

Nick Morgan2015-09-08T13:57:31-05:00September 8, 2015|Audience Interaction, Emotion, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication, Successful Speakers, When Things Go Wrong|

Public speaking means – for most people – stress and a sudden flurry of decision-making under stress. The conference organizer ...

When Should You Be Authentic?

Nick Morgan2015-09-03T18:41:19-05:00September 3, 2015|Authenticity, Body Language, Charisma, Emotion, Storytelling|

My dad died a week ago. He had a long and honorable life, and had suffered a year’s illness before ...

We Humans Are Social Beings – and Why That Matters for Speakers

Nick Morgan2015-09-01T23:27:10-05:00September 1, 2015|Body Language, Charisma, Community Building, Emotion, Listening, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication|

We humans are social beings; we share mirror neurons that allow us to match each other’s emotions unconsciously and immediately. ...

Do We Share Emotions – And Does That Matter?

Nick Morgan2015-08-27T07:00:41-05:00August 27, 2015|Audience Interaction, Emotion, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication|

An old philosophical debate asks the question, how do we know that our emotions are commensurate with one another? Meaning, ...

Dealing with the Fear of Public Speaking

Nick Morgan2015-08-18T07:00:19-05:00August 18, 2015|Current Affairs, Emotion, Fear of Public Speaking|

Most of us have heard about a study that claims public speaking is our number one fear. Jerry Seinfeld even made ...

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 ...

Five Quick Body Language Lessons from the First Republican Debate

publicwords2015-08-11T14:41:10-05:00August 11, 2015|Body Language, Current Affairs, Emotion, Fear of Public Speaking, Non-Verbal Communication, Speaker Critiques|

I was going to watch the first Republican debate anyway, but when CNN’s Gary Tuchman called and wanted me to ...