The Rule of Seven

If you want to engage your audience, follow these simple rules regarding your PowerPoint slides.

How to Choose the Right Paper - Part 1

Choosing the right paper for your project is more complex than just picking the most expensive sheet and keeping your fingers crossed. In fact, you shouldn’t think about choosing paper based on the highest quality available, or the highest quality you can afford. Rather, you should figure out the most appropriate quality paper for your needs because most appropriate equals best.

How to Unleash Your Inner Comedian

Where did we learn that we have to be serious all the time to be taken seriously? In my experience, it's just not true. When people laugh, they learn. With this in mind, let's explore how you can be funnier when you give a speech or presentation. I've coached hundreds of speaker and have come to one simple conclusion: everybody is funny. But most of us have spent years trying not to be funny in professional situations in an attempt to be taken seriously. As a result most people don’t have a clue what their funny looks, sounds and feels like.

Stop Pouring Money Down the Power Point Drain

What if you found out that the more time your company spends on writing and rewriting slides, the less money it makes? There's a direct correlation between profitability and using slides as the default delivery system for all information. Decrease the use of slides and increase the bottom line.

Three Tips that Develop Your Presentation Skills

Try these tips to deliver better presentations at work, PTA meetings, or social functions. You'll notice that the main concerns are not about what you say (content), but how you say it (stage presence).

Choosing Tripod Projection Screens

Tripod projection screens are best used when a person needs to be able to travel with their projection screen.

When Less is Certainly More

The more that the simple shapes of the triangle, circle and square are used in a photograph, the more powerful the photograph becomes. This same logic applies to successful business presentations. The more focused and simple the message, the greater chance the audience has of remembering the message and taking action.

Visuals in Public Speaking: How to Use Them to Get Results

If you want to get results from your presentations, and from your speeches, you need, basically, a message and a presentation focused on the results you want. You use the visuals, then, to support that message – give it power. And you must be seen, in your presentation and in your use of those visuals, as competent and confident. Then you will produce the impact that you choose.

Public Speaking: Apply Adult Learning Principles for More Effective Training

Adults have special needs as learners, revolving around self-directed inquiry and keeping content relevant to their personal experiences. Follow these tips to give your workshop participants the most effective learning environment.

Speaking In The Light

If you want to be taken seriously, never 'practice' on a 'live' audience! When you stand to present information - be it to 2 or 200 people - does your audience hang on your every word, or hang out for you to finish?

Presentation Professional

If you've ever heard a politician speak..you know how easily an audience can be tranced out, and you don't want to be in that category I'm sure. Boring? Not you!!

A Second Chance for a First Impression

When I work with executives to improve their presentation skills, we achieve the best results over an extended period of time. This results in long-lasting changes versus the 'quick-fix' mentality that often pervades corporate America. The next time you goof and make a poor first impression take heart. When you keep meeting in person, ask thoughtful questions, listen without judgment, present a united front and are patient, you will get a second chance to remake your first impression.

11 More 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 however, you've got to move beyond mechanics to dynamics. A great speech is not just a bunch of words - it's an inspiring experience. In this and other articles, I'll teach you how to be a dynamite speaker.

Presentation Skills for Trade Shows

Trade shows give you the opportunity to display and demonstrate your products or services. But for a lot of people, making a presentation can be a frightening and uncomfortable thing to do, however with some simple tips any such fears and anxieties can be replaced with confidence therefore making the whole experience very enjoyable.