Listen, People!
If you are over forty and reading this blog post, you are beginning to experience –however subtly – the symptoms ...
The Pandemic Epidemic of Loneliness
A good deal has been written about the increase in negative mental health indicators during the pandemic. Drug abuse, mental ...
How’s Your Empathy Holding Up?
Public Words has been running an empathy quiz for the past 2 years, and we now have 2,000 responses. So ...
Emotion, Human Connection, and the Virtual World
Recently I was reviewing some research on popular TED talks that found that the most successful speakers used more hand ...
How to Connect with an Audience Fast
Speakers, like executives, salespeople, managers, trainers, consultants, advisors, engineers – the whole information society, in fact – are terribly afraid ...
Why Do We Have Eyebrows?
When you’re talking anthropogeny, it can be hard to tease out cause and effect. Did we humans evolve a bigger ...
What’s the Most Important Personality Trait for a Speaker?
What’s the most important trait for a speaker? Extroversion? Confidence? Charisma? I’m going to suggest something that may surprise you. ...
Video Conferencing Dos and Don’ts
Recently, I had the chance to chat with Michael Frendo, Executive Vice President, Worldwide Engineering for Polycom, about a subject ...
Leadership Is Communication
Most of us assume that we are primarily conscious beings with an intellect that plans, weighs objectives and options, and ...
Blarney, Benghazi, and Binders: Takeaways from the Second Presidential Debate
The debate rematch saw a familiar Governor Romney matched up against a newly invigorated President Obama. There was a lot ...
