How to Interact with Audiences, Part 2
The second of six posts on how to interact with audiences. One of the consistent surprises for me in the keynote speaking world has been the reluctance of speakers to engage in significant audience...
View ArticleHow to Interact with Audiences, Part Three
The third of six posts on how to interact with audiences. One of the consistent surprises for me in the keynote speaking world has been the reluctance of speakers to engage in significant audience...
View ArticleHow to Interact with Audiences, Part Four
This is the fourth post in a series of six. One of the consistent surprises for me in the keynote speaking world has been the reluctance of speakers to engage in significant audience interaction,...
View ArticleHow to Interact with Audiences, Part Five
This is the fifth of a six-part series. One of the consistent surprises for me in the keynote speaking world has been the reluctance of speakers to engage in significant audience interaction, despite...
View ArticleHow to Interact with Audiences, Part 6
The last of a six-part series One of the consistent surprises for me in the keynote speaking world has been the reluctance of speakers to engage in significant audience interaction, despite the real...
View ArticleFirst, Let’s Kill All the Meetings
It’s a truism that people in organizations of all kinds suffer from too many meetings. As we wind down 2023, a year that seemed to me to go by in a blur of meetings and a very elastic sense of time –...
View Article5 Simple Principles for Better Speaking in 2024
Welcome to 2024. To me, the 2020s were supposed to be the stuff of science fiction, a world beyond what I expected to know. I should be taking regular shuttles to the moon, now, to help the President...
View ArticleHow to Rehearse a Speech
You’ve got the speech booked, and it’s an important one. Of course, they’re all important, or you wouldn’t say ‘yes’, but this one is special. It’s the audience, the venue, the occasion – they are...
View ArticleWhat About the 10,000-hour Rule — Is It Still a Thing?
You’re probably familiar with the so-called 10,000-hour rule, the idea that what it takes – and all it takes – to master something, like golf or public speaking is to spend 10,000 hours practicing....
View ArticleEmpathy Is up to Us
Empathy is up to us. And it’s on the decline. We have reason to be worried, certainly here in the United States, and I assume around the world as well, if the news is to be believed. I was thinking...
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