How to train your brain for peak performance

Nick Morgan2015-02-19T07:00:14-05:00February 19, 2015|Emotion, Fear of Public Speaking, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication, When Things Go Wrong|

So if we’ve got at least three brains and two of the three are busy sabotaging us at key moments ...

How Your Unconscious Mind Determines Your Communications

Nick Morgan2015-02-17T07:00:48-05:00February 17, 2015|Body Language, Fear of Public Speaking, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication, When Things Go Wrong|

I posted recently on the dangers of leaving your body language to chance. I’m going to continue on this subject ...

Are You Leaving Your Impact To Chance?

Nick Morgan2015-02-10T07:00:47-05:00February 10, 2015|Body Language, Emotion, Fear of Public Speaking, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication, Successful Speakers|

One thing that is not part of our commonsense understanding of how our minds work is the importance of the ...

How to help your audience remember what you say

Nick Morgan2015-02-05T07:00:34-05:00February 5, 2015|Audience Interaction, Content/Writing, Neuroscience, Speech Writing, Storytelling, Successful Speakers|

Our memories are not as good as even the most pessimistic of us fear they are, alas. That has disturbing implications ...

Five New Ways To Deal With Stage Fright

Nick Morgan2015-01-22T07:00:51-05:00January 22, 2015|Audience Interaction, Emotion, Fear of Public Speaking, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication, When Things Go Wrong|

What else can you do with speech anxiety besides worry? Readers of this blog will know that I’ve given you ...

What Will Corporate Storytelling Look Like in 2015?

Nick Morgan2015-01-20T07:00:12-05:00January 20, 2015|Authenticity, Branding, Community Building, Neuroscience, Storytelling|

I’m not going to make communications predictions this year, because my crystal ball is cloudy, and 2015 in any case ...

Authenticity or Charisma?

Nick Morgan2015-01-08T07:00:59-05:00January 8, 2015|Authenticity, Body Language, Charisma, Emotion, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication|

Somewhere between the twentieth and the twenty-first centuries, the general public became tired of hype and decided that it wanted ...

Speakers Need to Think About Their Branding

Nick Morgan2014-12-18T07:00:15-05:00December 18, 2014|Authenticity, Branding, Community Building, Neuroscience, Platform, Speaker Marketing, Successful Speakers|

Susan Fiske, Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs at Princeton University, studies the psychology of branding, consumers, and the motivation ...

High Voice? Low Voice? What Works in Front of an Audience?

Nick Morgan2014-12-11T07:00:31-05:00December 11, 2014|Charisma, Emotion, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication, Successful Speakers|

I’ve been posting a good deal recently on research having to do with the voice. And a number of readers ...

How to Turn Your Speaking Flaws Into Strengths

Nick Morgan2014-12-09T20:27:48-05:00December 9, 2014|Audience Interaction, Authenticity, Humor, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication|

This is an era of great psychological studies. Psychologists have bravely jumped in to quantify things they previously thought were ...