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Use Anchoring to Strengthen Your Arguments

Nick Morgan2021-11-01T11:12:03-05:00September 21, 2021|Neuroscience, Speech Writing, Successful Speakers|

Anchoring bias is one of those psychological constructs that is very familiar to psychologists but less widely talked about by ...

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The Learning Paradox for Speakers

Nick Morgan2021-06-23T04:41:48-05:00June 23, 2021|Neuroscience, Speech Writing, Storytelling|

The human brain is a much more powerful learning machine than we think.  A recent study (Buch et al., 2021) ...

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Is Storytelling Dangerous?

Nick Morgan2021-06-14T08:01:10-05:00June 15, 2021|Content/Writing, Speech Writing, Storytelling|

What is the role of storytelling in our world today?  Stories are what people hang on to in order to ...

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Find Your Red Thread, with Tamsen Webster

Nick Morgan2021-05-19T07:27:49-05:00May 18, 2021|Books (Print), Content/Writing, Speech Writing|

Tamsen Webster is my favorite other speaking coach.  I love how Tamsen’s work focuses on making the idea behind the ...

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Public Words are delighted to join with the world and celebrate World Speech Day 2021.  

Nick Morgan2021-03-29T15:20:42-05:00March 15, 2021|Public Words, Speech Writing, Successful Speakers, Uncategorized|

Simon Gibson launched World Speech Day in 2015.  As founder, he says of the origin of the organization, “I am ...

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The low hanging fruit of public speaking, and yet no one does it?

Nick Morgan2020-02-26T11:10:34-05:00February 26, 2020|Audience Interaction, Authenticity, Speech Writing, Successful Speakers, Tools and Resources|

I regularly get asked by speakers, meeting planners, speaker bureau folks – just about everyone in the speaking business, in ...

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What Are the Chapters in a Change Journey?

Nick Morgan2019-10-22T17:27:05-05:00October 22, 2019|Content/Writing, Speech Writing, Storytelling|

At a recent conference, I was asked to talk about change – on short notice. The forcing function turned out ...

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What Is a Keynote Speech?

Nick Morgan2019-08-19T07:05:20-05:00August 20, 2019|Event Planning and Management, Public Words, Speech Writing|

What is a keynote speech?  That’s not a trick question.  I ask because keynote speeches take so many forms it ...

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How Can You Make a Technical Subject Interesting?

Nick Morgan2019-04-23T03:31:04-05:00April 25, 2019|Content/Writing, Speech Writing, Storytelling|

How can academics and specialist in arcane forms of knowledge take their subject matter and present it to general audiences ...

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Why Is Most Public Speaking So Awful?

Nick Morgan2019-04-11T14:05:59-05:00April 11, 2019|Content/Writing, Listening, Speech Writing|

A few years back on this blog I asked myself the question, why is so much public speaking – especially ...