TED Talks
Cynthia Breazeal: The rise of personal robots
Cynthia Breazeal wonders: Why can we use robots on Mars, but not in our living rooms? The key, she says, is in training robots to interact with people. Now she dreams up and builds robots that teach, learn -- and play. Watch for amazing...
Communication Coach Alex Lyon
10 Body Language Habits that Hurt Your Credibility
Body Language Habits that Hurt Your Credibility Top 10. Avoid these bad nonverbal communication habits so you don't undermine your own credibility.
Communication Coach Alex Lyon
Communication Professor Reacts to Tom Cruise Interview on 60 Minutes
Communication Professor Reactions to Tom Cruise interview with 60 Minutes Australia's Peter Overton as the conversation crosses boundaries and Cruise pushes back. Was he rude or justifiably assertive?
Communication Coach Alex Lyon
Why the Top 16 "Body Language" Signs of Deception are Bogus (Deep Dive)
Can people really tell if somebody is lying by looking at their body language and other nonverbal cues? Let's take a deep dive into what the actual research says about deception and body language to settle the issue once and for all.
Communication Coach Alex Lyon
Empathetic Listening Skills
Empathetic listening skills help you communicate that you are putting yourself in the speaker's shoes to connect with their emotions, and attempting to feel what they are feeling.
Communication Coach Alex Lyon
Effective Communication Skills
This Effective Communication Skills Training, a 7-part mini-series in how to improve communication (full version). It focuses on concise, clear, and confident communication. Previous versions of this are posted in 7 separate parts. I put...
Communication Coach Alex Lyon
Effective Communication Skills Training: Concise, Clear, Confident (Part 2 of 7) | Concise Message
Effective Communication Skills, part 2 (of 7). In this video of the mini-course, we'll look at how to communicate concisely in our overall messages: Three ways to be more clear, concise, and confident. 1. Skip over the backstory and get...
Communication Coach Alex Lyon
Verbal and Nonverbal Communication
We explore verbal and nonverbal communication definitions, examples, how they work together, emblems, illustrators, nonverbal leakage, and microexpressions with Mary Daphne. Speakers express verbal and nonverbal communication work...
Communication Coach Alex Lyon
Tone of Voice in Communication
This video looks at how our tone of voice in communication influences the way we are perceived including a look at our other nonverbal vocal cues and visual cues. When people say "tone" of voice, they often mean much more than the...