Storytelling, Framing, and Memory
We expect powerful people to give us the overview, the high-level view. Specifically, a recent study found, we rate people ...
Seven Ways to Enchant an Audience
How can you go beyond the usual efforts to create a successful presentation – and enchant the audience? What are ...
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 ...
Five Tips For Public Speaking Success
I’ve seen a lot of speeches recently, coached and written a good number more for clients, and given a few ...
The World’s Second Most Famous Brain and What It Teaches Public Speakers
In 1953, an epileptic had brain surgery to try to relieve the seizures he was experiencing that were making his ...
The FacebookIs10 Movie and Your Audience
I'm pleased to welcome Public Words writer Sarah Morgan as a guest blogger for this posting. How many Facebook ...
How Do You Create Intimacy as a Speaker?
I wrote last week about how speakers need to move deeper into authenticity to achieve intimacy with their audiences. I ...
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 ...
Carmen Agra Deedy Reveals the Secret to Great Storytelling
If you want to master great storytelling, you have to learn 3 essential lessons. All of them are contained in ...
Why You Need to Tell Us Stories, Not Dump Information on Us
Everyone seems to get these days that storytelling is important, because we’re awash in data and information and can’t remember ...
