How Your Voice Will Help You Succeed or Fail as a Speaker
What do audiences want? They want a speaker to succeed, because that means their time has been well spent. When ...
When Body Language Is, and Isn’t, Effective
The most important thing to understand about body language is that we humans don't care about it. Now, of course, ...
How Our Virtual World Has Changed the Communication of Selling – Part Three
This is the third installment in a three-part series adapted from my recent book, Can You Hear Me” How to […]
Who Won The Third (and Angriest) Presidential Debate?
The third and final presidential debate was the angriest, beginning with the opening, as the two candidates walked on. The ...
Making Business Relationships Work
In two previous posts I discussed some preliminary work I’ve been doing on the life cycle of a business relationship. I ...
What is the life cycle of a business relationship?
What is the life cycle of a business relationship? And how does neuroscience help us understand it, if at all? ...
Trust Matters for Speakers. Here’s Why.
There are a few times in life when we take a leap, a leap of faith, a leap of trust. ...
What Does Your Audience Want?
So often speakers preparing a speech start with their passion, their expertise, or their response to an invitation. But what ...
The single biggest mistake most public speakers make most often
Let’s imagine for a moment that you’re ill and you go to the doctor. You get into the examination room, ...
Can you inspire an audience with a negative message?
Can a speaker inspire an audience with a negative message? The short answer is ‘no’, but of course you’re thinking ...
