Category: Presentations

When You’re Growing Fast and the Sales Team is Struggling

Greg Owen-Boger
August 5, 2022 0 Comments
Presentations

The consulting, medical, and financial services this client sells are not easy for decision-makers, coming from both healthcare and administration points of view, to grasp. The physicians-turned-salespeople needed to make their messages concise, persuasive, and easy to understand for people outside their area of expertise. In this series of Case Studies, we demonstrate how select...

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Three Reasons You May Need an Executive Presentation Coach

Dale Ludwig
June 13, 2022 0 Comments
executive presentation coach

Most “business-y” jobs, whether for-profit or non-profit, involve business presentations. From the bottom of the org chart to somewhere in the middle, most people’s presentations are to their internal teams, customers, or occasionally, to leadership. But what about once you move beyond that middle layer? What about when you are leadership? Leadership communication has different...

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How to Make Your Business Presentations Successful

Dale Ludwig
June 6, 2022 0 Comments
Business Coaching Presentation

When it comes to business presentations, many people feel overwhelmed. They don’t know where to start, and they’re not sure what the best practices are. That’s where coaching comes in. A presentation coach can help you make your next presentation a success. They will help you learn presentation skills through coaching sessions and communication training....

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When Confusion is Caused by Multiple Training Vendors

Greg Owen-Boger
May 11, 2022 0 Comments
training

When people participate in Turpin workshops, individual members and teams enjoy a host of secondary benefits beyond greater comfort with their own communication skills. Managers and leaders are often pleasantly surprised by how team meetings become more efficient, leadership skills start to emerge, relationships blossom, and so on. We often hear that teams “Turpinize” their...

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16 Signs Your Company Should Invest in Communication Training

Greg Owen-Boger
March 14, 2022 0 Comments
communication training

We’ve been talking recently about our collective experience with communication challenges in the various places we’ve all worked. One topic that keeps coming up is how often what seems like a problem with process, productivity, or achieving benchmarks ultimately turns out to be a communication issue. We’ve put together a list for leadership to think...

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Should You Practice or Rehearse for Your Next Business Presentation?

Dale Ludwig
December 27, 2021 13 Comments
Should You Practice or Rehearse for Your Next Business Presentation?

Greg, Turpin Communication’s VP, has written a couple of great blog posts on preparing yourself to deliver presentations and training sessions. Don’t Overlook These Steps When Preparing Your Presentation Dry Runs: The Key to Training Readiness in the Virtual World Among the things he talks about is how we recommend dry runs rather than rehearsal....

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The Masked Presenter: Challenges of Being Live and In Person

Barbara Egel
November 16, 2021 0 Comments
The Masked Presenter: Challenges of Being Live and In Person

In addition to being a Turpin trainer and coach, I also teach at a couple of different colleges in the Chicago area, and I was asked to teach a class just before the start of the semester—in person. I was elated. Since the start of lockdown last year, I’d had four sets of students that...

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When Team Presentations are a Market Differentiator

Greg Owen-Boger
November 3, 2021 0 Comments
team presentations

When people participate in Turpin workshops, individual members and teams enjoy a host of secondary benefits beyond greater comfort with their own communication skills. Managers and leaders are often pleasantly surprised by how team meetings become more efficient, leadership skills start to emerge, relationships blossom, and so on. We often hear that teams “Turpinize” their...

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Presenting at Conferences to People You Don’t Know

Greg Owen-Boger
July 28, 2021 0 Comments
how to analyze audience for effective conference presentation

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 become pretty instinctive and even subconscious. You share a common working language, and you know what challenges they face, what their business goals are, and what approaches to information they...

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Showing and Telling: Effective Slide Delivery

Barbara Egel
June 28, 2021 0 Comments
how to use slides for delivering your presentation

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, “Well, it’s complicated,” rather than emphatic agreement. The problem with “never read from your slides” is that it often ends up meaning presenters glance at the slide as it comes...

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