Why Executives Need to Become Intentional Communicators
For executives with a public-facing role, the game has changed. You can’t rely on common sense or instinct or winging ...
Amazing Human Tricks and Public Speaking
By now, if you’ve wasted even a small amount of time on the Internet when you should be doing more ...
The Problem with Online Feedback
In an earlier blog post I talked about the difference between implicit and explicit feedback. Implicit feedback is what you ...
How to Give a Great Introduction 2018
We were reviewing the stats on this blog recently, and one of the surprising numbers is that the blog post ...
The Virtual World Is an Emotional Desert
When humans communicate face-to-face, we do so with little conscious effort, most of the time. Even when language is a ...
Virtual Communication Is Flawed in Some Key Ways, Part 2
This is the second of two posts on some of the problems that arise with virtual communications. Communicating in the ...
Body Language Basics, Part 5 — A Handy Checklist
I'm finishing out the year with a back-to-basics 5-post review of the fundamentals of body language. In this era of ...
What’s Missing from Virtual Communication (part 2)?
My Grandma, when she was alive, loved to talk about her first trip to Europe as a young ingénue. It ...
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 ...
Is it OK to use Emojis?
One of the great dangers of email, that staple of modern business life, is the misunderstanding that comes from your ...
