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 [...]
Eye Contact and Pausing… Is That All You Got?!
Some time back, Dale and I were the guest speakers on a webinar. The topic was about how we’ve redefined business presentations as Orderly Conversations. We were [...]
For Leaders Who Expect Better Communication from Employees: 5 Ways to Achieve It
As a leader, you expect your employees’ business communication to be effective and efficient. But is it? Too often, it’s not. (I’ve written about the business [...]
Successful Presenters Engage People in a Conversation
As a presenter, when you are engaged in the conversation, you are connected to your thoughts and externally focused on the people you are speaking [...]
Taking Time to Pause During a Presentation is a Sign of Respect
In our business presentation workshops, we sometimes do an exercise in which we stretch the length of a pause—way beyond what would ever be comfortable [...]
Information Overload: How to Avoid It When Presenting to Leadership
You’re a detail-oriented person working in a highly technical position. You probably wonder how much detail you should go into when presenting to managers and [...]
Fewer Slides ≠ More Efficient Presentation
Among many of our learners, there is a persistent belief that the number of slides in one’s presentation is somehow related to the amount of [...]
5 Introverts Walk into a Presentation Skills Workshop …
I was leading a presentation skills workshop a few weeks ago when something happened that has never happened before. It was during the needs assessment [...]