How to Understand Your Audience
When I’m working with clients, we always start, not with them, but with their audience. Sometimes clients find this a ...
Why Your Voice Is Important
I’ve often posted on the importance of the voice to public speaking (here, here, and here, among many), and to ...
Why Speakers Need to Take Charge of Their Posture
I saw a study recently that confirmed something important about how people enter a room, shake a hand in greeting, ...
How to Handle the Post-Speech Come-down
A recent study sheds light on an important aspect of the speaker’s life – the post-speech end of the adrenaline ...
Three Ways for Speakers to Cope with Stress
Continuing with my theme of the past few blog posts on the nature of the speaking business and what it ...
How To Be More Charismatic – Lady Gaga, the Super Bowl, and Neuroscience
One thing that my clients and potential clients almost never ask me -- at first -- is how to become ...
Do Your Gut Feelings Help You as a Speaker?
The story goes that when George Soros, the hedge fund bazillionaire, was still a fund manager, he would monitor his ...
Your Stress Is Contagious.
The second of two articles about the adrenaline response. We suspected it. The research and speculation about mirror neurons predicted ...
Why You Need to Be an Intentional Communicator
Most of us think we’re intentional about our communications, but we’re actually not – at least, not very often. The ...
Can You Handle Your Adrenaline? Can Your Audience?
Most speakers get to know their adrenaline fight-or-flight response very, very well. To be sure, I’ve met a few speakers ...
