Public speaking is frightening. The National Social Anxiety Center places public speaking as the most common phobia behind death, spiders, and heights. Public speaking anxiety, or glossophobia, ...

United States - The Land of the Silently Terrified It might shock you to discover that in the country known for bold speeches ...

“It all boils down to our relative status in the history of our species when we would hang out in groups of around 150 people,” he says. “Relative status wasn’t who drives the fanciest car or who’s ...

Johnny C. Taylor Jr. tackles your human resources questions as part of a series for USA TODAY. Taylor is president and CEO of the Society for Human Resource Management, the world's largest HR ...

When my younger sister called in November 2022 to say she was getting married, I was slow to connect the dots. “YAAAAY!” I screeched into the phone. Meg had been my maid of honor a couple of years ...

Anxiety and stress go with public speaking for all but a lucky few. Now a recent study underscores the importance of recognizing and accepting those emotions rather than trying to deny them. According ...

Not long ago, the thought of having to speak before a room full of people would strike fear in Phil Chrzanowski. His anxiety would skyrocket, causing his body to tremble and his voice to quiver.

As a requirement to pass my graduate-level communication course at Harvard, students deliver a seven-minute presentation to the rest of the class. Over the past several seasons of teaching the course, ...

Imagine you're on the move with your tribe in prehistoric times. Suddenly, you're left behind. Alone on the grassland, you’ve lost the safety of the pack. Any nearby saber-toothed tiger will see you ...

President Barack Obama works with Terry Szuplat, Senior Director for Speechwriting. Great communicators are made, not born: It’s a conclusion about public speaking that I’ve reached after two decades ...

When Chris Obolensky arrived at the University of Virginia three years ago, he was surprised to learn that that there was no place on Grounds that focused specifically on helping students hone their ...