You’re giving an important presentation, and your audience suddenly seems unreceptive and disengaged. Some people start shifting in their seats, crossing their arms, or staring forward blankly. One ...

A couple years ago I was asked to speak at a conference in Chicago. I prepared, in traditional journalistic fashion, by doing everything at the last minute and then walked into the event expecting a ...

Distraction is rampant in the new hybrid workforce. Canva, a visual-communication and design platform, explains why workers zone out in presentations. Canva's intuitive software lets you create ...

The corporate world has a meetings problem. And if you're regularly responsible for conducting or facilitating meetings at work, you might (unfortunately) just be part of that problem. We know that ...

There may not be an obvious connection between employee retention and a workplace presentation on happiness, but a new program offered by New Hampshire Humanities aims to find out. Humanities@Work ...

I'm a public-speaking expert, and I've trained many executives and senior teams. I tell all of them to stop starting work presentations with a salutation or a "hello." Instead, you should engage your ...

Full disclosure: this paper is based on a presentation I gave in 2019 at an academic conference. I often engage in “double-dipping,” which I would describe as recycling or repurposing your own work ...

Remarkably, within the span of a few short months, the global workplace environment has changed dramatically and perhaps permanently. Among the many changes, arguably the most significant has been the ...