The following is a great guest post from Ellen Finkelstein. Ellen is an expert trainer on using PowerPoint and presentation skills to...
Can visual design be learned? That was the question posed on Quora recently and while not wanting to downplay the huge talent...
Want to know how to give a successful presentation? I can sum it up in one sentence: answer your audience’s questions. Successful...
It’s a horrible moment in a speaker’s career. You build a speech around a story you found. You use it for years....
Have you heard of the “Death by PowerPoint” movement? I’m not sure you could actually call it a movement, but it’s a...
My experience as both an audience member and presenter tells me that the longer a presentation is, the more chance there is...
I am assuming that most people reading this post write frequently, and write well. However, it is worth going back to basics...
The purpose of all advertising and marketing is to sell some idea. Be it, “I need that product”; “I want that product”;...
‘Show don’t tell’ is a lesson often taught to fiction writers. Instead of telling the audience “Sally was cold”, the rule tells...
Nine times out of ten, your audience will be made up mostly of your peers. Even if you’re presenting to young, uneducated...
It’s becoming increasingly common for meetings to be conducted via conference call, Skype or virtual online meetings in business. Of course it...
A few notes of planning for an hour long presentation; an unexpected tangent; questions you hadn’t prepared for…these are a few of...
