PowerPoint With Punch: Do You Know It When You See It? Four Rules to Enhance Your Presentation

Can you tell a poor PowerPoint from a great one? Do you know how to achieve effectiveness in PowerPoint design and avoid common pitfalls? Consider three essential elements that help define what makes a good PowerPoint presentation. Apply four simple rules to enhance the communication punch of your presentations.

Presentation Involves Your Very Vital Career Success

Don't be left in the trap of many that it is only how well you do your job that will get you your promotion and advancement in your career. Presenation and planning at your career is vital to your career advancements and promotions at your company or organization where you are employed.

May I Have Your Attention, Please? Five Ways to Retain Focus and Stay in the Moment

Whether you find it difficult to remain attentive with customers, peers, family or yourself, the ability to remain connected without daydreaming is possible. So how do you stay present and in the moment? The following are five ways to help keep your head in the game and strengthen your attentiveness skills:

Seven Great Networking Tips for Trade Shows

Trade shows require a lot of effort, preparation, and investment. If you're planning on going to a trade show, it's important to get the most out of it possible. And you won't do it by being a wallflower.

How To Present Creative Ideas: Part 1

Sure you got the copywriting job. Now, what could you possibly learn in an article that could get that word 'junior' off of you business in under six months? Hmmmmmm.

7 Presentation Skills Tips from a Professional Speaker

Most presentation skills coaches teach you the mechanics of speaking to make you look and feel mechanical. To be a truly amazing speaker, you've got to move beyond mechanics to dynamics. In this and other articles, I'll teach you how to be a dynamite speaker.

Make Your Message Stick with Stories

How do you make a speech memorable? By learning how to tell a memorable story. There is an art and craft to storytelling for a business presentation that is very different than traditional storytelling. I'm the creator of The Story Theater Method for strategic storytelling in business. Let me help you become an effective storyteller.

Storytelling - A Leadership Development Tool

Far too many leaders are powerful and charismatic in every aspect of their jobs, except when they give a speech. They delegate the writing of the speech, give no time to preparation and when the time comes to stand before their employees, they bomb. In this article, you will gain insight into the most effective leadership tool available - strategic storytelling.

Learning about Presentations from Robin Williams

Whenever I have to make a presentation, I always leave myself some wiggle room. I’ll switch horses in mid-stream if I have to . . . and sometimes I even plan it that way.

Choose a Manual Projection Screen and Save Money

By purchasing a manual projection screen you can save a lot of money over other options that are on the market today. Of course money is not the only thing to consider when buying a projection screen, but depending on your situation it should definitely come into play.

Like a brick wrapped in velvet - designing a conference presentation (or most other kinds too!)

How you design your presentation is at least as important as how you deliver it. There's a lot of help on delivery online, but not so much on design. This article is a step in the right direction.

The ONE Thing

What can you do to improve your communication power? Often this boils down to working on one thing at a time. Each of us can always improve across many areas, but focusing on one thing at a time is more effective and will produce faster results. Understand the 6 common areas upon which you can improve. When you successfully your one thing, you will become a more effective communicator.

Simple is Powerful

Do you know that an average audience only remembers a fraction of the information presented after one week? This base line information is typically the emotion of the speaker and a few key points. If the speaker is passionate about what he or she is saying, then the audience will engage with this passion and more easily remember the simple points. Certain members of a speaker's audience will take action from the program because the simple, yet powerful messages will resonate (vibrate on the same frequency) with them. Understand that the simple messages are the most powerful.

Engaging Your Audience: Successful Techniques For Your Workshop

When you feel the anxiety, engage your audience. Getting them participating will help calm you down and establish your mastery of the material. My art workshops are designed to engage.

The Play Dough Plea

Good interactivity in instruction requires that the activities be integrated into the content being taught. This article offers suggestions for effective instructional design and presentation delivery.