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February 1, 2022
How to Use A Key Learning Technique to Make Speeches Better
The “spacing effect,” first discovered by psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus in the late 1800s, shows that we learn new material best by taking breaks, to allow the brain to consolidate what it has learned, rather than trying to cram too much in all at once. And yet teachers still try to pack a lot into their ...
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January 28, 2022
E10 Season 2 of JOQ: Nick Morgan talks to Kate O’Neill author, speaker, and researcher on AI.
Kate O’Neill is an author, speaker, and researcher on AI. Her most recent book is A Future So Bright, about how to integrate talk about the future in ways that allow us to actually plan for a better one. Learn More about Kate.
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January 26, 2022
Five Common Speaker Delivery Mistakes
In a previous post, I talked about 5 common errors that speakers make when focusing on the content of their speeches. But a speech is always embodied, meaning that someone has to deliver it to an audience, in order to fulfill the criteria of the genre. And just as weak speeches can be made stronger ...
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January 21, 2022
E9 Season 2 of JOQ: Nick Morgan talks to Mercy Corp’s Global head of communication Christy Delafield
I talk to Christy Delafield, the communications person for Mercy Corps, this was a very interesting discussion!
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January 20, 2022
Martin Luther King, Jr. and Your Audience
This is a repost in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, originally posted in 2019. What makes a great speech? Every year around this time in the US we honor Martin Luther King, Jr, for his selfless dedication to improving the civil rights of Americans. Part of the reason we honor him is that ...
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January 14, 2022
E8 Season 2 of JOQ: Nick Morgan talks to comms expert and six times bestselling author Nancy Duarte
Nancy Duarte is a communication expert who has been featured in Fortune, Time Magazine, Forbes, Fast Company, Wired, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Cosmopolitan, LA Times, and on CNN. Her firm, Duarte, Inc., is the global leader behind some of the most influential visual messages in business and culture. As a persuasion ...
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January 11, 2022
The 5 Most Common Speaker Prep Mistakes
What are the mistakes that speakers make over and over again when preparing their speech content? Here are the 5 most common ones that I’ve seen during a lifetime of attending speeches, coaching speeches, and of course giving them (and making mistakes) myself. When a speaker’s biggest fear is losing the audience’s attention, focusing on ...
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January 5, 2022
New Year’s Resolutions for Speakers, 2022
Having just crawled through the wreckage of a year in which our hopes for a return to normalcy – even a post-pandemic normalcy, some hybrid new world – were dashed by Delta and Omicron, I’m looking into 2022 with my fingers over my eyes, like a kid watching a horror movie. What’s ahead? The next ...
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December 24, 2021
E7 Season 2 of JOQ: Nick Morgan chats to Speaker, Dentist and Pilot Dr Jared Cox
Jared believes in human potential and human goodness. His experience as a dentist and a pilot has taught him a lot about fear and how it can hold us back. Dr. Jared Cox helps audiences understand their fears and even make friends with them in order to start living life again with joy ...
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December 17, 2021
E6 Season 2 of JOQ: Nick Morgan talks to Customer Experience Expert, Author & Podcaster Ethan Beute
Ethan Beute is the Chief Evangelist at Bomb Bomb, a video messaging platform, and host of the Customer Experience podcast. His new book, out this fall, is Human Centered Communication: A business case against digital pollution. It is co-authored with Stephen Pacinelli.
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