What The Devil Wore Prada Can Teach You About Dressing For Success

There's a style lesson to be learned from this film that can groom you for success.

Be Famous, Host A Seminar!

Imagine hosting your own seminar. Whether you dream of hosting clients for the weekend, prospects for a few hours, or colleagues for a lunch-hour workshop, let's make this year the year you realise that dream! Planning and hosting a seminar, workshop, or other event's not nearly as hard as you might expect. And today I'd like to share with you the five secrets to a flawless event.

Presentation and Your Company Car

Why is it that business people often spend so much money on image only to lose all that wonderful first impression on the fact their car looks terrible? Boy it sure seems like a lot of wasted effort to spend tens of thousands of dollars on a professional website, colorful brochures, hairstyles, attire and a gold Rolex only to ruin it all by driving up in a dirty car.

Power Point Presentation: Five Ways On How To Give Your Business Presentation In 30 Seconds Or Less

Learn how to condense your business presentation into 30 seconds or less. It could make the difference between your success or failure.

Beyond Free Mints: 4 Keys to Tradeshow Success

It's 10:15 am Sunday morning. Hordes of wandering guests stroll through the tradeshow hall amidst hundreds of booths and exhibits—including yours. There is little or no chance these people will enter into business with your company.

Charismatic Communication: Conceptual Entrapment - How Metaphor Governs Our Lives (Part 2)

Metaphors that are deeply embedded in our culture are relatively easy to identify because of the number of linguistic markers associated with them. In this article you will encounter a conceptual metaphor that has the power to hijack rational and reasonable behaviour.

Building A Blockbuster

If only learning events could give learners the sense of anticipation and desire to attend that Hollywood cultivates for new movies. In this article, training expert pulls back the veil on some Hollywood premier techniques and then suggests relevant applications to the classroom.

The Mother of all Prize Fights

How do we make decisions? And, how does the way we make decisions affect presentations, training, education and speeches. In this article, the author calls attention to a recent study that suggests emotion is the key to moving learners towards the results you want.

Presenting Facts to Decision Makers

All too often in presentations those giving a presentation to the decision-makers will in fact talk too much. The decision-makers have summoned the presenters to discuss with them their proposal to help solve a problem of the decision-makers. The decision maker or decision-makers did not call upon the presenters to give them a three-hour lecture on every single aspect of the situation or scenario.

Charismatic Communication: How To Do Board Presentations - Part One

Knowing how to effectively present to a board isa key skill that all up and coming executives need to possess. Convincing and persuasive board presnetations can give your career a shot in the arm. In this article Desmond Guilfoyle reviews the essentials of preparing for the event.

Charismatic Communication: How to Do Board Presentations: Part Two

In Part two of How to do an effective board presentation, Desmond Guilfoyle looks at important elements of delivery and positioning.

Dealing With Difficult Participants - The First Five Minutes

The first five minutes can be the most difficult of a presentation or training session, you have no rapport or may not know anyone too well, what do you do?

When to Purchase an Audience Response System

Determine whether purchasing an audience response system is preferable to renting, based on organizational goals and resources.

My New Hat Makes Me Information Rich

What useful information can you provide about who you are, what you do, where, why and how? What insights can you collect to teach, tell, instruct, advise, inform, arouse or entertain?

CaseCampToronto 3 Review

For those of you familar with DemoCamp, CaseCamp may be the polar opposite with its flashy power point presentations and marketing case studies. For anyone interest in online or interactive campaigns it's a great event to see what works and what doesn't. CaseCamp Toronto at The Fifth Club Wednesday nigth after a summer break and several other CaseCamps around the Canada ( Montreal & Vancouver ). I enjoy CaseCamp because it lets me see how online marketing campaigns are evolving.