How to Change Minds with a Speech
What’s the best way to prepare people for change? This question is one that we speakers often ask ourselves, more ...
How to Use Memory to Help with Stage Fright
We know from a good deal of research on memory how unreliable it is, partly because retrieving a memory is ...
Memory, Virtual Speaking, and Covid-19
I’ve been thinking and researching about memory lately, because I’m curious to see how our learning abilities (of which memory ...
When Do Facts Beat Stories?
Speakers make or break their speeches – and careers – based on the strength of their stories and their command ...
What Speakers Need to Know About the Brain
Fall is officially here and it’s time to put away the pails, shovels and sunscreen and get back to work. ...
Coping with the Stress of Public Speaking
It’s no secret that public speaking is stressful for most people. Helping people cope with that stress is something I ...
The Meaning of ALL CAPS
When you talk to someone face-to-face, your unconscious mind automatically absorbs the emotional state of the person in front of ...
Memory, Lighting, and Public Speaking
What are we to make of a recent study that showed some memory loss and impaired learning in lab rats ...
Neuroscience Sees Red – Insights for Public Speakers
A pair of studies I caught up with recently (here and here) explored the very human reactions of men and ...
Why Speakers Should be Helping Audiences Forget What They Know
There’s a particularly tedious kind of speaker that ostentatiously tries to teach his audience something by having the audience repeatedly ...
