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Unlocking Your Richest Voice: What Public Speakers Can Learn from Perfect Pitch Training

For this week's blog I'm delighted to welcome back our PW voice coach, Jessica Cooper, as author.   For years, perfect pitch - the ability to identify musical notes without a reference - was commonly accepted as being an innate gift, reserved for the genetically blessed or those trained from early childhood. But new research from ...

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What Is Hot in Keynote Speaking Right Now?

Recently, I’ve been talking to speaking biz people to ask them what’s in demand in the speaking world.  Now, it’s important to understand that one of the peculiarities of our business is that no one really knows in some scientifically verifiable way where the demand is.  There is astonishingly little actual comprehensive research on those ...

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Why burnout leads to conflict in the workplace

Nick and Alida talk about burnout and conflict in the workplace, and its affect on organizational performance. Alida  Zweidler-McKay coaches managers to become great leaders, to evolve from feeling overwhelmed and uncertain to projecting confident authority, and to build teams full of trust, where people are committed and engaged.   She has over 20 ...

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What Makes a Speech Successful?

What is the best possible time to deliver a speech?  A study about when people are at their most cogent seems to be relevant here (Bu et al., 2024). Researchers studied 50,000 people during the pandemic and found that we are zippiest in the morning, and generally get grumpier and grumpier as the day wears ...

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How to Prepare a Keynote Speech

There’s a lot of misunderstanding about what it takes to prepare a successful keynote speech – and a successful keynote speaking career.  Let me start by talking about what it is not, and then talk about what it is.  First of all, a keynote speech is not a collection of clever one-liners.  Nor is it ...

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Dr. Sabina Nawaz on How You Are the Boss

Sabina Nawaz is an elite executive coach who advises C-level executives and teams at Fortune 500 corporations, government agencies, nonprofits, and academic institutions around the world. Sabina gives dozens of keynotes, seminars, and conferences each year and teaches faculty at Northeastern and Drexel University. During her fourteen-year tenure at Microsoft, she went from managing software ...

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Summoning courage to be a better communicator

Are you clear with your values? Or are you hiding? Nick talks to Michelle about what emotional intelligence really means and why it is important for communicators. Michelle Gladieux is an educator, executive coach, instructional designer, and author based in Indiana. Learn More about Michelle here: https://gladieuxconsulting.com/ ...

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Can You Use Jungian Archetypes to Create a Great Speech?

It has been a while since I talked about archetypes, but I was thinking about them lately because of a science fiction novel I was reading which was filled with them. Basically, an archetype is a model of a character, or part of a character.  The word and concept have been around for a long ...

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Slow Brains and Fast Tigers

One of the mysteries of the brain is why our conscious minds are so slow.  We process on the order of 10 – 40 bits of information per second consciously – but up to 100 million bits of information per second unconsciously.  (Zheng et al., 2024) So what’s happening to all that information?  Wouldn’t it ...

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How Are You at Remembering Names? You Should Know This!

Do you, like me, have trouble remembering the names of people that you meet, especially at business functions or social gatherings where you meet a group of people all at once?  Yeah, it was the bane of my professional existence until I accepted it and started saying people’s names back to them, explaining that I ...

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