What to do when the missiles are incoming

Nick Morgan2010-10-15T15:34:51-05:00October 15, 2010|Speech Writing, When Things Go Wrong|

One of the hazards of speaking in public is that some percentage of the audience will not agree with you.  ...

What to do when a speech goes horribly wrong – 5 tips

Nick Morgan2010-10-12T15:58:52-05:00October 12, 2010|Humor, Visual Aids and Props, When Things Go Wrong|

Technology will fail you.  Audiences will go cold – or fail to show up.  You’ll forget to say something important.  ...

Public Speaking and the Audience: We’ve Got a Problem

Nick Morgan2010-08-26T15:32:18-05:00August 26, 2010|Audience Interaction, Visual Aids and Props, When Things Go Wrong|

Most public speaking—especially business speeches and presentations—has never entirely caught up with its audience’s changed expectations. Our ordinary speaking styles ...

The first time

Nick Morgan2010-08-25T18:47:27-05:00August 25, 2010|Fear of Public Speaking, Rehearsal, When Things Go Wrong|

The first time you give a speech is exciting, unnerving, and inevitably filled with an awkward moment or two.  In ...

Steve Jobs’ Inauthentic Press Conference

Nick Morgan2010-07-20T13:34:10-05:00July 20, 2010|Authenticity, Speaker Critiques, When Things Go Wrong|

For my blog today I'm linking to a piece I did for HBR.org on Steve Jobs' Friday press conference.  The ...

A speaker scam?

Nick Morgan2010-06-22T13:42:29-05:00June 22, 2010|Current Affairs, Event Planning and Management, Speaker Marketing, When Things Go Wrong|

A good friend of ours at Public Words, a successful public speaker, recently received a speaking inquiry from a prestigious ...

Does public speaking terrify you? Here’s what to do about it.

Nick Morgan2010-06-09T13:39:01-05:00June 9, 2010|Body Language, Fear of Public Speaking, Neuroscience, When Things Go Wrong|

I get asked a great deal about anxiety, fear, nerves, nervousness, butterflies, panic attacks, terror – about public speaking.  A ...

Every communication is two conversations – ignore the second at your peril.

Nick Morgan2010-05-05T07:14:55-05:00May 5, 2010|Body Language, Neuroscience, When Things Go Wrong|

Every face-to-face communication is two conversations, the content and the body language.  Most of us spend a great deal of ...

How does a sure-fire, no-miss, grade-A speech go horribly wrong? The anatomy of a terrible speech.

Nick Morgan2010-04-21T15:22:41-05:00April 21, 2010|Speaker Critiques, When Things Go Wrong|

Mena Trott, together with her husband, founded Six Apart, the company that created TypePad, the blogging platform this blog and ...

The Top 10 List of Speakers Audience Abuse

Nick Morgan2010-04-14T11:53:01-05:00April 14, 2010|Audience Interaction, Visual Aids and Props, When Things Go Wrong|

Based on actual events.  Don’t try these on your audiences.  Please feel free to nominate the worst cases of audience ...