Presenting at Conferences to People You Don’t Know
If the audience for your business presentations is usually the same group of people—your internal team or a well-known client group—your assessment of them can [...]
Hybrid Meetings: Being a Productive Participant
In our first post on hybrid meetings, we talked about best practices for managing focus when leading meetings with some people in the room and [...]
Hybrid Meetings: Projecting Professionalism
One of the many interesting observations from the pandemic is the evolution of people’s Zoom backgrounds. Initially, everyone was excited to play with the virtual [...]
Dry Runs: The Key to Training Readiness in the Virtual World
In our book, Effective SMEs: A Trainer’s Guide for Helping Subject Matter Experts Facilitate Learning, Dale Ludwig and I encourage trainers (and subject matter experts turned [...]
New Book: The VIRTUAL Orderly Conversation
The year 2020 will be remembered for many things, most of them incredibly sad, frightening, and shocking. In this global context, the frustration we all [...]
Communication is an Essential Leadership Skill
Praise for All the Leader You Can Be: The Science of Achieving Extraordinary Executive Presence There is no doubt that communication is a skill that must [...]
Develop Your PowerPoint Like a Pro Without Hard, Fast Rules
People often ask us about the rules for PowerPoint. Some examples include, “What’s the rule for … the number of bullets on a slide?” the [...]
Presenting Information Persuasively
How to be persuasive when presenting data If you deliver a lot of data-heavy presentations, it’s easy to get stuck in a rut and approach [...]
Business Communication in a Virtual World
During every communication workshop we deliver, whether it’s for presenters, facilitators, or trainers, there’s one frustration we hear repeatedly. No one likes to conduct business [...]
Don’t Overlook These Steps When Preparing Your Presentation
For some presenters, preparation is all about collecting data and turning it into PowerPoint slides. There’s more to effective, efficient preparation than that, though. It’s [...]