Showing and Telling: Effective Slide Delivery
Learners come into our workshops absolutely certain of one hard-and-fast rule: never ever read from your slides. They look pretty bewildered when we respond with, [...]
Learners come into our workshops absolutely certain of one hard-and-fast rule: never ever read from your slides. They look pretty bewildered when we respond with, [...]
I recently delivered a workshop for eight very nervous presenters. They were a great group and talked very frankly about their worries and concerns about [...]
Josh Bersin wrote an interesting article on LinkedIn about the mismatch between academic education and job skills. What jumped out at me was research showing that [...]
One of the most important things for business communicators to understand is the distinction between a speech and a presentation. They are not the same. [...]
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 [...]
Many presenters ask us about the best way to get their presentations started. They say that once the conversation gets going, they’re fine. But getting [...]
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 [...]
This is an excerpt from Effective SMEs: A Trainer’s Guide for Helping Subject Matter Experts Facilitate Learning.” In this excerpt Dale Ludwig (Turpin Communication’s Founder) [...]
This is an excerpt from “Effective SMEs: A Trainer’s Guide for Helping Subject Matter Experts Facilitate Learning.” In this excerpt Dale Ludwig (Turpin Communication’s Founder) [...]
In this video, produced by the Association for Talent Development (ATD), Greg Owen-Boger, Turpin's VP, discusses designing content for different learning styles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZcoV4I_9us&ab_channel=TurpinCommunication Greg here with [...]