Nick Morgan's Blog, page 49
January 30, 2019
A young entrepreneur follows her dreams
Some time ago, Gunita Bhasin sent me a link to her TEDx talk, given last summer at Southbank International School, asking me for feedback, which I thought was a pretty daring thing to do, since I get called the Simon Cowell of speech coaching by some who have worked with me. Let me get the […]
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January 29, 2019
Is the pendulum finally ready to swing back?
Readers of this blog will know that I’ve been saying for several years that we’re living in an angry era, but that zeitgeists do change, and that a happier time is on the way. At least, that’s what I hope. Each year I’ve suggested that perhaps this is the year. Well, I’m sorry to join […]
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January 24, 2019
How Our Virtual World Has Changed the Communication of Selling – Part Three
This is the third installment in a three-part series adapted from my recent book, Can You Hear Me” How to Connect with People in a Virtual World. In the first part, I argued that the internet and the mobile phone have fundamentally changed the sales cycle. So, salespeople need to learn new techniques of selling, […]
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January 22, 2019
How Our Virtual World Has Changed the Communication of Selling – Part Two
HThis is the second installment in a three-part series adapted from my recent book, Can You Hear Me” How to Connect with People in a Virtual World. In the first part, I argued that the internet and the mobile phone have fundamentally changed the sales cycle. Your potential customer is further along the sales journey; […]
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January 17, 2019
How Our Virtual World Has Changed the Communication of Selling – Part One
The internet and mobile phone together have changed our notions of friendship, family relationships, work connections, and personal ties. And all of that has happened in a couple of decades, but especially the last ten years, thanks mostly to the sudden rise of the mobile phone (since the introduction of the iPhone in 2007). Where […]
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January 15, 2019
Your Speaking Voice in 2019
Strange things are happening to speakers’ voices. As I’ve worked with public speakers on finding their best possible voice over the past two decades, those voices are changing. (Caveat: this is anecdotal information, but it is based on a fairly hefty sample size, so it’s at least interesting.) What’s happening? Vocal ranges are narrowing. Male […]
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January 10, 2019
When The Show Must Absolutely Positively Go On
All professional speakers, and indeed virtually all speakers, have had days when they’ve been at less than their best. They’ve had days when illness has made it really, really difficult to keep going. And they’ve had days when travel problems mean that they are unable to be physically present at the gig. None of these […]
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January 8, 2019
The Problem With PowerPoint
One of the unintended consequences of the increased competition of the last few years in the public speaking world is perhaps surprising: it’s becoming harder and harder (at the keynote level) to persuade meeting planners to let the speaker go on stage without PowerPoint or some other such slide software. Their attitude is, “well everyone […]
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January 3, 2019
My New Year’s Resolutions for 2019
Happy New Year 2019! If you thought last year was wild, weird and, well, pretty awful, then obviously you were as fixated on the American political scene as I was. And don’t get me started on Brexit! Here’s the thing: 2019 will see the culmination of crazy trends in both realms. If there’s anything we […]
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December 20, 2018
How The Communication Rules Have Changed
Communicating effectively is essential table-stakes for success in the business world today, as well as of course the public speaking world. We begin work on a speech or planning a meeting with good intentions and a grab-bag of rules floating around in our heads. But often those rules have been derived from pre-virtual days; the […]
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