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 [...]
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 [...]
Getting Presentations Started: How to set context and manage nervousness
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 [...]
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 [...]
Is Nervousness Limiting Your Career?
For some business presenters, nervousness is a temporary condition. When they’ve moved past the first few minutes, their nerves seem to float away. For other [...]
What Everyone Ought to Know About Delivering Team Presentations
I’ve written a lot about how important it is for presenters to initiate and manage a genuine conversation with their audiences—how it’s the presenter’s responsibility [...]
Change of Plan—You’re Delivering THESE Slides Instead
We are always looking for new ways to improve the impact that we have on our clients, their teams, and the portion of the business [...]