Is Overconfidence Harmful to Speakers?
Quick question: which is better for a public speaker – to be overconfident, or to underrate yourself? Understand that both ...
The Most Reverend Michael Curry Takes Us to School
Some speeches don't need extensive analysis, explanation, or commentary. They are best just experienced. The Most Reverend Michael Curry of ...
Virtual Communication Is Flawed in Some Key Ways, Part 2
This is the second of two posts on some of the problems that arise with virtual communications. Communicating in the ...
Virtual Communication Is Flawed in Some Key Ways, Part 1
Communicating in the virtual world creates some built-in hazards for us humans because we originally evolved to communicate face to ...
The Communication Problem at the Heart of Our Digital Era, Part 2
Every single human voice has a slightly different mix of its basic pitch, undertones and overtones. Added together and they ...
The Communication Problem at the Heart of Our Digital Era, Part 1
We live half our lives in the virtual world, half in the real, so that many of our communications are ...
More Public Speaking Fear – and What to Do About It
I’ve been remiss as a blogger not to have talked about one of my favorite fellow toilers in the craft ...
What to Do about Speaking Fear when Nothing Else Works
I had a question from a reader recently about what to do when all my usual prescriptions (see here, here, and ...
What’s Wrong with Virtual Communication, Part 1
We are all unwitting participants in a massive social experiment that began slowly after World War II and gathered speed ...
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 ...
