Nick Morgan's Blog, page 14

How Long Do You Have to Prepare a Presentation?

What do you do first if you have 6 weeks to prepare a presentation (or speech), 6 days to prepare a presentation, 6 hours to prepare a presentation, or 6 minutes? If you have 6 weeks.  This is an ideal amount of time.  Not so far off that events will change the ground of your ...

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Executive Advisor Charles Vogl talks to Nick about workplace loneliness

We kick off the new season of JOQ with a special guest Charles Vogl. In this episode Nick and Charles discuss work place loneliness. Charles is an “External Thought Leader” for the Google School for Leaders, a project to train 20,000 Google Leaders. Charles Vogl is an author of three books, including the ...

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My Favorite Brain Study Reveals a Startling Secret

One of my favorite brain studies was carried out in 2014 by the renowned Brian C. Clark of Ohio University, expert in the study of mental imagery, exercise, especially in the elderly, pain management, and healthy aging, so I find myself paying more and more attention to his work as I get older.  The study  ...

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Presenting to the Executive Team? Here’s What to Think About – Part 3

This is the third of a three-part series on presenting to the executive team.  During the pandemic, I worked with mid-level executives across a variety of industries who had to navigate a particularly difficult form of communication in a new way:  presenting to the executive team via Zoom.  Now that the trend is clearly moving ...

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Presenting to the Executive Team? Here’s What to Think About – Part 2

This is the second of a three-part series on presenting to the executive team. During the pandemic, I worked with mid-level executives across a variety of industries who had to navigate a particularly difficult form of communication in a new way:  presenting to the executive team via Zoom.  Now that the trend is clearly moving ...

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Presenting to the Executive Team? Here’s What to Think About – Part 1

During the pandemic, I worked with mid-level executives across a variety of industries who had to navigate a particularly difficult form of communication in a new way:  presenting to the executive team via Zoom.  Now that the trend is clearly toward being back in the office, at least a few days a week, those same ...

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How to Deal with Failure

Anyone who speaks, either professionally or for one’s job, experiences a failure of the attempted communication at least occasionally.  The audience isn’t right for the speaker, the topic isn’t right for the audience, the audience was having a bad day, the speaker was having a bad day, mercury was in retrograde – there are an ...

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5 Ways to Handle a Hostile Audience

What if your audience is hostile?  How do you handle it?  It’s a sad commentary of the times that this question is coming up frequently enough that I thought it time to offer some solutions to this ticklish problem. I once saw the magic act of Penn and Teller, and Penn was quite edgy and ...

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How to Connect with an Audience Fast

Speakers, like executives, salespeople, managers, trainers, consultants, advisors, engineers – the whole information society, in fact – are terribly afraid of losing the attention that audiences seem to be increasingly unwilling to give them these days, and certainly not for long.  Whether large or small, audiences are now objects of great fear for anyone who ...

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How to Become a Successful Speaker in 2023

I often get asked about the path to success for a professional speaker.  When you’re just starting out, you naturally want to know how others achieved their success before you.  You want to know what you should focus on in order to get to that coveted spot on the keynote stage faster.  And if you ...

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