Nick Morgan
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What Do Your Audiences Remember?
How can you, a keynote speaker or perhaps a more humble everyday presenter, increase what your audience retains of your […] → Read More
Future of Meetings, Updated
Back in November I took a shot at predicting the future of meetings – how virtual they would be once we were able to go back to work. I theorized a 2-tiered system, with virtual meetings persisting for the cost savings and speed they offered, but face-to-face meetings predominating when the quality and importance of […] → Read More
How Speakers Self-Sabotage
Over the years I’ve watched some great speakers thrive and others with similar talents never get very far out of the gate. What makes the difference? Fortune, and being in the right place at the right time, of course are factors not to discount. But in the long run, there are habits that seem to […] → Read More
The Dangers of Faulty Thinking
I took part in a logic training course years ago, an extra-curricular course designed to make better debaters of us all. I’ll never forget the example of the first form of persuasion that the instructor urged us to be on guard against – repetition – because it was so simple and so obviously lacking in […] → Read More
Why You Need to Gesture on Zoom
What are gestures really for? When we speak, most of us wave our hands around in ways that we don’t think about consciously very much, if at all. Do those gestures have meaning? If so, how do they help or hurt our ability to express ourselves on video conferences? There are a lot of misunderstandings […] → Read More
Make Every Conversation Count with Riaz Meghji
Before Riaz Meghji became a thought leader, speaker, and author of Every Conversation Counts, he was the host, for 17 years, of Citytv’s Breakfast Television, CTV News, TEDxVancouver, and MTV Canada. As such, he’s interviewed thousands of celebrities and experts about human connection and collaboration. So it’s doubly fun for me to turn the tables […] → Read More
Are You Betting on You?
I’m thrilled that my good friend Laurie Ruettimann has a new book out this month, Betting on You: How to Put Yourself First and (Finally) Take Control of Your Career. Laurie’s writing and speaking is always irreverent, funny, and straight to the point, and this excellent new book is no exception. If you are thinking […] → Read More
3 keys to better, less painful video meetings
Follow these “three rules of Zoom” to make your meetings more tolerable in 2021. I’m seeing a lot of stress in the faces of executives and workers I talk to on video conferences these days. So here are some ways to think about video conferencing to make it more bearable. I call them “the Rules […] → Read More
5 ways to improve your video presence in 2021
Use these tips to make the most of virtual meetings, presentations and chats in the new year. We’ve been in this pandemic long enough to know viscerally that video conferences don’t work as well as face-to-face communication. There’s something missing – and we know what it is: connection. The human connection we had often taken […] → Read 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 an active process that changes the memory as we call it up. When accuracy is important, then, we have to be careful not to embellish or distort the memory as we recall it, talk about […] → Read More
The Future of Meetings, Predicted
What’s going to happen to virtual events when the pandemic is over? This question has become more and more urgent for speakers, meeting planners, and speaker bureaus as we’ve struggled through the course of the worldwide scourge of covid-19. I’ve talked to a wide swathe of our communications world and begun to discern some possible […] → Read More
Three Ways to Make Video Conferencing More Bearable
I’m seeing a lot of stress in the faces of executives and knowledge workers I talk to on video conferences these days. So here are some ways to think about video conferencing to make it more bearable. I call them “the Rules of Zoom.” I’ll state the rules simply first, then provide some explanation. The […] → Read More
Three Keys to Beginning a Successful Virtual Speech
I’m getting constant questions about how to make the virtual speaking experience as good as the face-to-face. The quick answer, of course, is that you can’t. For those speakers who thrive on the excitement and energy a live audience offers, virtual speaking is never going to be as much fun. Your audience is atomized into […] → Read More
What's wrong with filler words, exactly?
Are, like, filler or weasel words, you know, on the rise? What do the following words have in common: basically, really, actually, totally, exactly, very, highly, just, like, you know, uh, um, I mean, like I said, OK, so, well, right?, and stuff, literally? They’re all filler or weasel words – words we interject into […] → Read More
Body Language Takeaways from the First Debate of the Fall, 2020
Let’s dispense with the obvious first: this deeply dispiriting exchange was neither a debate nor a conversation nor even a policy discussion. It was a shouting match, and the American people lost out. This event was the least edifying, most unpleasant political evening I’ve ever spent. Yes, President Trump interrupted and talked over Vice-President Biden […] → Read More
Just One Question Episode 32: Nick talks to Sales Entrepreneur, Author and Mentor Todd Duncan
Angelo John Lewis is a long-time friend and fellow communicator. I first met him years ago when we were both working at Princeton University. Today he is the founder of the Sacred Inclusion Network, a life coach, and the author of Notes for a New Age. Podcast Available Here: → Read More
Learning the Craft of Charisma
Which is more important to you – authenticity or charisma? Do you perhaps yearn for charisma and settle for authenticity? Charisma is the X factor every leader wants, even if some won’t admit it. These are the ones who often say something like, “I’d rather just be me. That’s more authentic.” “Just being me” is […] → Read More
A Q and A with Maureen Anderson
Maureen Anderson is one of my favorite people and someone I always look forward to speaking to – with any excuse. She’s a star in the radio galaxy, and she’s interviewed me on her shows on the subject of communication a number of times. The pandemic seemed like a good excuse to turn the tables […] → Read More
Just One Question Episode 30: Nick chats with HR and Leadership Keynote Speaker Shanthi Flynn.
Shanthi has spent more than 30 years in Executive roles ranging from Ford in the UK to Walmart. Most recently she was CHRO of the Adecco Group a Fortune 500 Company. She now is a keynote speaker and an advisor to Executive teams and Boards, leveraging her wide ranging HR and Business experience….. The virtual […] → Read More
How to Interview Successfully Online
It was a trend long before the pandemic, a timesaver and an efficiency move: do the first round of interviews for an open position via video. No need for travel, hotels, parking, reimbursable expenses, time spent in transit – you get the drill. Interview from the comfort of your own home. Everyone wins, even if […] → Read More