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 ...

How To Boost Your Memory – And Your Audience’s

Nick Morgan2015-08-04T07:00:14-05:00August 4, 2015|Audience Interaction, Body Language, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication, Successful Speakers|

First the bad news. Yoga does not significantly boost your memory. Very good for you in many ways – I ...

How to Increase the Persuasiveness of Your Speaking

Nick Morgan2015-07-28T16:58:50-05:00July 28, 2015|Audience Interaction, Body Language, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication|

I was struck recently by a set of research studies that reinforced the importance of touch in persuasion. Touching people ...

How to Give an Impromptu Speech

Nick Morgan2015-01-27T07:00:13-05:00January 27, 2015|Audience Interaction, Content/Writing, Speech Writing, Storytelling|

A client and friend asked me the other day about impromptu speeches. His question, basically, was, to give consistently good ...

The Three Most Important Times to Pause in a Presentation

Nick Morgan2015-01-13T07:00:33-05:00January 13, 2015|Audience Interaction, Authenticity, Listening, Non-Verbal Communication|

We were having dinner with friends recently, and one of them took the opportunity to get a little free advice. ...

Perfectionism and Public Speaking

Nick Morgan2014-10-14T07:00:41-05:00October 14, 2014|Audience Interaction, Authenticity, Emotion, Event Planning and Management, Fear of Public Speaking, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication, When Things Go Wrong|

Is it good to be a perfectionist? Perfectionists would say yes, of course; it leads to better results in work ...

When You Have to Deliver the Bad News….

Nick Morgan2014-09-25T07:00:13-05:00September 25, 2014|Content/Writing, Speech Writing, Storytelling, When Things Go Wrong|

Speakers sometimes have to deliver bad news. It’s not a pleasant prospect for most of us; we prefer to keep ...

Don’t Let Your Audiences Be Passive!

Nick Morgan2014-07-24T07:00:35-05:00July 24, 2014|Audience Interaction, Non-Verbal Communication|

People don’t like to be passive.  They don’t like to sit still and do nothing.  They’d even rather shock themselves ...

How to Deal with Stress: More Tips for Speakers

Nick Morgan2014-05-29T07:00:44-05:00May 29, 2014|Emotion, Fear of Public Speaking, Non-Verbal Communication|

In a blog post last week, I discussed a recent study that showed that we leak our stress levels to ...

Should You Approach Your Audience When Giving a Talk – Or Walk Away?

Nick Morgan2014-05-27T07:00:16-05:00May 27, 2014|Audience Interaction, Body Language, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication|

A recent research result was reported in the media as indicating that there may be something called “approach aversion” that ...