The passionate scientist: Doing Q&A like Neil deGrasse Tyson

Communication experts such as Jerry Weissman and Granville Toogood suggest that presentations should be delivered less like performances or speeches and much more like conversations. "Stop thinking that every time you stand up to say something you are making a speech—because you're not," says Toogood in The Articulate Executive. "What you are really doing is having an enlarged conversation." One of the keys to a natural, conversational approach includes removing all barriers to natural...