How Your Unconscious Mind Betrays You – and What You Can Do about It

Nick Morgan2014-07-31T07:00:06-05:00July 31, 2014|Audience Interaction, Fear of Public Speaking, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication, When Things Go Wrong|

Back in the cave person era, by all accounts, we evolved this exquisite mechanism, the fight or flight response, to ...

How’s Your Imagination as a Public Speaker?

Nick Morgan2014-02-20T07:00:51-05:00February 20, 2014|Book Reviews, Current Affairs, Fear of Public Speaking, Non-Verbal Communication, Tools and Resources, When Things Go Wrong|

Anyone who is seriously interested in peak performance issues in high-adrenaline endeavors like public speaking, sports competition, or leadership, needs ...

How to Recover from Disaster: Super Bowl, Part 2

Nick Morgan2014-02-06T13:23:29-05:00February 6, 2014|Current Affairs, When Things Go Wrong|

I blogged last time about the role of adrenaline in performance and the negative effects of too much adrenaline as ...

Manning, the Broncos, and Adrenaline: What Went Wrong? Lessons for Speakers

Nick Morgan2014-02-04T15:01:29-05:00February 4, 2014|Body Language, Current Affairs, Emotion, Fear of Public Speaking, Non-Verbal Communication, When Things Go Wrong|

Watching the first few calamitous minutes of the Super Bowl -- calamitous, at least, for Peyton Manning and the Broncos ...

Your Worst Speaking Fear Realized: The Michael Bay Meltdown

Nick Morgan2014-01-07T15:46:23-05:00January 7, 2014|Current Affairs, When Things Go Wrong|

Famed movie director Michael Bay had a simple chore to handle at the CES show currently underway in Las Vegas.  ...

Is It Good News To Find Out You’re Following A Bad Speaker?

Nick Morgan2013-11-12T12:51:29-05:00November 12, 2013|Event Planning and Management, When Things Go Wrong|

I posted earlier about a terrible speaker experience at a conference I attended recently.  It was an American who gave ...

How to Give a Terrible Speech

Nick Morgan2013-11-07T07:00:32-05:00November 7, 2013|Event Planning and Management, Featured Posts, Speech Writing, When Things Go Wrong|

I recently attended a conference on matters high tech in the UK.  Good conference overall, but one speaker was so ...

The 2 Body Language Mistakes You Make Every Day

Nick Morgan2013-05-02T15:44:30-05:00May 2, 2013|Body Language, When Things Go Wrong|

We normally don’t think at all – at least, in the casual sense of the word “think” – about where ...

7 Speaking Disasters You Will Experience and What to Do About Them

Nick Morgan2013-03-14T08:00:46-05:00March 14, 2013|When Things Go Wrong|

If you give speeches more than once a year, you will experience speaking catastrophes.  Here are 7 that have all ...

5 Ways to Avoid Looking Like an Idiot as a Public Speaker

Nick Morgan2012-11-15T09:46:43-05:00November 15, 2012|Humor, Videos, When Things Go Wrong|

I let the doctor talk me into a flu shot during my annual physical this week, and I’ve had a ...