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 [...]
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, [...]
Earn Trust by Making Your Destination Clear
Do you have that friend or family member who offers you a ride and then doesn’t look at a map or set their GPS app [...]
Being Inclusive When Your Audience Is Unknown To You, Part II
For too long, companies such as ours let it be other people's business to create a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive world. What authority did [...]
Being Inclusive When Your Audience Is Unknown To You, Part I
For too long, companies such as ours let it be other people's business to create a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive world. What authority did [...]
4 Things Nervous, Over-Preparing Presenters Can Do to Calm Down and Engage
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 [...]
Presentation Skills Training: REDEFINED.
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Orderly Conversation Defined
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. [...]
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 [...]