What Happens When Speeches Go Wrong?

Nick Morgan2015-10-20T13:04:20-05:00October 20, 2015|Audience Interaction, Authenticity, Content/Writing, Event Planning and Management, Successful Speakers, When Things Go Wrong|

When speeches go wrong, most often it’s the speaker who gets the blame. But a better way of thinking about ...

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 ...

How to Prepare for Public Speaking Disaster

Nick Morgan2015-09-24T10:46:52-05:00September 24, 2015|Audience Interaction, Current Affairs, Event Planning and Management, When Things Go Wrong|

What do you do when the show can’t go on? Last week was supposed to be a good week for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Beware the Latest Speaker Scam

Nick Morgan2015-08-06T07:00:12-05:00August 6, 2015|Current Affairs, When Things Go Wrong|

A few years ago I became aware of a speaker scam that was making the rounds, preying on eager speakers ...

Why I’m a Coach

Nick Morgan2015-07-07T07:00:56-05:00July 7, 2015|Authenticity, Storytelling, When Things Go Wrong|

Few people dream as children of becoming a coach when they grow up. The clichés run to more glamorous, limelight-stealing ...

What Sepp Blatter Did Right

Nick Morgan2015-06-04T07:00:45-05:00June 4, 2015|Body Language, Current Affairs, Emotion, Non-Verbal Communication, Speech Writing, Storytelling, When Things Go Wrong|

The FIFA president gave a fascinating resignation speech after 17 years in the job, thanks to the recent indictments on ...

The Journey to Mastery

Nick Morgan2015-05-28T07:00:49-05:00May 28, 2015|Content/Writing, Successful Speakers, When Things Go Wrong|

I was originally going to call my book Power Cues: The Subtle Science of Leading Groups, Persuading Others, and Maximizing ...