Three ways the relationship with your audience starts before you walk on stage
Most speakers think that their job begins when they get on stage and open their mouths to utter their first ...
The 3-minute storytelling lesson you won’t forget
I was working recently with a team of executives on storytelling and delivery, and in one of the exercises I ...
The Fourth Step to Brain Mastery
The fourth step to brain mastery comes straight out of science fiction. In his classic sci-fi novel Dune, Frank Herbert ...
The Third Step to Brain Mastery
The third step in brain mastery involves learning how to read the body language of others around you. There is ...
The Second Step to Brain Mastery
The second step to brain mastery and powerful communication follows directly on from the first. Now that you’ve taken inventory ...
How to master your gestures to become a more effective communicator
Every communication is two conversations. The first conversation is the one you’re aware of — the content. The second conversation ...
The role of emotion in public speaking
Emotion – is it a good thing or a bad thing? For many years, people struggled to keep it out ...
What is the role of emotion in public speaking?
What is the role of emotion in public speaking? We have all seen speeches that seared their audiences with emotion ...
Seven ways to rehearse a speech
Rehearsal is a practice more honored in the breach than the occurrence, and it should be the other way around. ...
How to decode other people’s body language
We are all unconscious experts in reading other people’s intentions toward us. We evolved these skills in the woolly mammoth ...
