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In my practice I work to help a lot of different people, but I’ve noticed an interesting—and rather startling—similarity between [...]

Psycholinguist Cynthia Whissell of Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario said something simple, but profound, that got me thinking about why, [...]

Using the Question Quadrant to understand what your audience wants and what you want the audience to receive is simple.  [...]

Sometimes verbose speech includes providing too many details.  Many technical professionals I work with have this problem. When you are [...]

Webster’s Dictionary defines verbose as “given to wordiness” and “impaired by wordiness.”  How fitting; we all know individuals who are [...]

I remember standing behind the lectern in classroom 2370 in the Haley Center at Auburn University. As an undergraduate student [...]

A gentleman, let’s call him Thad, emailed me and said he thought he had a speech problem and was embarrassed [...]

I have a colleague who prides himself on knowing a little about a lot of topics. Let’s call him Donald. [...]

I’ve heard that spending 10 minutes in front of the right audience can do more for your career than 20 [...]