Audience Participation and Rodrigo y Gabriela
Last week I was off on another busman’s holiday. I learned at the last minute that Rodrigo y Gabriela were ...
How Can You Make a Technical Subject Interesting?
How can academics and specialist in arcane forms of knowledge take their subject matter and present it to general audiences ...
How Empathetic Are You? The Empathy Quiz Gives Some Clues
I’ve been speaking in Washington DC recently at a variety of government venues, talking about the ideas and research in ...
What Can a Symphony Orchestra Conductor Teach Us About Public Speaking?
Having just moved to a new town, I suddenly appreciate anew Einstein’s most brilliant thinking. It wasn’t the General Theory ...
Why Is Most Public Speaking So Awful?
A few years back on this blog I asked myself the question, why is so much public speaking – especially ...
Acting and Neuroscience
I’ve been thinking about acting and speaking this week, and so naturally a study talking about the neuroscience of acting ...
What Actors and Cabaret Singers Can Teach Public Speakers
What is the difference between what actors do and what speakers do? I talked about this question last fall in ...
Hostile Audiences
I’ve occasionally posted on the curiously angry state of the current world – the Eeyore Zeitgeist we live in now. ...
Speakers, How Do You Feel About Your Body?
When you stand up to speak in front of an audience, what, besides the inevitable stage fright, do you experience? ...
What To Do After a Speech
Do you believe that giving a speech is an honor or a gift? Should the audience be grateful that you’ve […]
