Leadership, Cialdini - Weapons of Influence, Public Speaking
When I was 11 years old, I saw a speech by 80’s-era motivational speaker Joe Charbonneau. I thought it was the coolest thing ever, and from that day forward wanted to be a public speaker of some kind. That star faded a little bit as I got older, and I could peek...
Social Psychology, Acting and Performance, Leadership, Public Speaking, Stress and Pressure
Some years ago, a Princeton psychologist named Sam Glucksberg brought a group of test subjects into a room. In the room was a table positioned against a wall. On the table was a book of matches, a box of thumbtacks, and a candle. “Your job,” Glucksberg...
Acting and Performance, Public Speaking
What does it mean to be in your head? What follows is one of the most important and fascinating lessons I’ve ever learned about performance. Any kind of performance. In his compilation book What the Dog Saw, Malcolm Gladwell re-publishes his New Yorker article,...
Johnstone - Status Transactions, Public Speaking
I hear a common complaint about internal company presentations. Internal presentations are apt to be less formal, and therefore audience members commonly to interrupt with questions, tangents, challenges and typing out emails on their Blackberries. Most times its the...
Advertising and Marketing, Public Speaking
This comes from a book that my friend clued me into, called Winning Body Language, by Mark Bowden. One of his chapters talks about using body language to take advantage of the way our minds deal with predictability and interruption. Pattern interruption is a...
