On Pacing

Creating Chemistry in a Talk

Making an Academic Presentation That Doesn't Put Your Audience to Sleep

Mistakes in Public Speaking

A Word With Marty: COMMUNICATION

Excerpts from Speak Like Churchill, Stand Like Lincoln: 21 secrets of hi...

How to Be Compelling When Speaking or Writing

My talk to UC Berkeley students on the art of public speaking

Public Speaking for Beginners

A Template for a More Effective Talk

The Closed-Bag Talk: ideas for public speaking

On Public Speaking

The Talk Reinvented

Choosing a Topic for a Talk, Article, or Post

Whether it’s giving a talk or writing something, the topic is the driving force. My Psychology Today article today may help you choose a topic that will work well for you.

When You Need to Memorize Something

Memorizing can be a good idea not just when you're an actor in a play, but when you're going to give an important brief talk, for example, at a meeting or a toast at a wedding, My Psychology Today article today describes an approach to memorizing that has worked well for my clients.

11 Communication Musts: Keys to being heard and respected

 

Sometimes it’s not what you know or even who you know, but how you say it. My Psychology Today article today offers 11 keys to saying it well, whether a one-minute report at a staff meeting or a keynote to a cast of thousands.

The Case for Self-Deprecation

We’re often warned against self-deprecation, that we shouldn't put ourselves down. It’s argued that it lowers your credibility and that, internally, it harms your self-esteem.

But my clients, my wife, and I have often benefited from self-deprecation. I make the case for it in my Psychology Today article.

3 Approaches to Public Speaking

A talk, even if it’s just a one-minute report at a staff meeting can catapult a career.or hurt it. So the stakes are high. No surprise that public speaking tops the list of fears.

The good news is that public speaking is learnable and it's made easier because there are three ways to prepare a talk, so you can choose one that fits you and the occasion. I describe them in my Psychology Today article today.

Real-Life Questions: A frustrated job seeker, a person in a stale marriage

This series’ previous installment told of an atheist seeking comfort and of an everyman wanting to give talks.

Today, we turn to a frustrated job seeker and to a person in a stale marriage.

Giving a Persuasive Talk

I’ve written previously on public speaking: Good Public Speaking Without Fear  and interviewed one of the world’s most successful speakers, Tony Robbins, in which he outlined the key to an effective talk.

In my PsychologyToday.com article today, I focus on a specify type of talk: the persuasive speech.  That can be as brief as a two-minute presentation at a staff meeting to a keynote speech at a convention.