Grand Opening: The Key To Great Presentations

Whether you are speaking in front of a civic group or making a sales presentation, your opening can make or break the deal. Unless you grab the audience at the beginning, they’ll be sleeping through your most important information. You must craft an opening that cannot be ignored.

How to Chair a Meeting

Meetings are viewed as a waste of time. Running effective meetings is a skill. Learn it and you'll accomplish more in less time.

Media Training Tips: Maximising Your Media Moment

Media training prior to dealing with the media is essential for business leaders, executives and company spokespersons. Discover the insider secrets of media interview training in this article. If you want to perform better then these tips from our media relations training course will help you get your message across via the media.

Building a Trade Show Display

If you are taking your newest products to a trade show then you will need to come up with some ideas on how to build a trade show display in order to adequately market your products.

Training / Presentations: Why You Need a Lesson Plan

Why do you need a lesson plan? Believe it or not, there are several good reasons and in the end you will be glad you put in the extra effort. It pays off.

Create A Better Impresion With Your Emails

You never get a second chance to make a first impression, its as true with emails as face to face contact. Here's some simple steps to making a better first impression.

Meetings: Planning a Group Session

The following information will help you become an effective facilitator in group meetings. These tips are essential in establishing an environment that allows the learning with long-term results.

Presenting with Props: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

While props are usually used to enhance a presentation they can have just the opposite effect if they are used incorrectly. This article explains how props can be used to spice up a presentation and also points out the areas in which many presenters fall short when using them.

Self-Trainers / Presentors: Techniques to Motivate Yourself

A trainer must exude confidence, energy and success. However, our accelerated times create cynicism and difficulty in many aspects of the business world. This is why the psychology of self-motivation for trainers is something you must be familiar with. Read on-

Presentor / Trainer: Quick - Thinking On Your Feet

Being in control and aware of your audience is important when making a presentation. These useful tips will help you homer those curve-balls that audiences tend to throw. So step up to the plate and make that presentation more effective.

Steps to a Successful Audience/Trainer Relationship

Relating to your audience is the most important aspect of an effective presentation. Overcoming your own stage fright and finding a connection with the audience, you can create a relationship that will result in a successful presentation. These steps will lead you down the path to strong training skills.

Can Stage Presence be Learned?

What is stage presence? Can it be learned? There are, undoubtedly, some ‘naturals’ in this field. The fine Welsh actor Richard Burton, for example, on his debut performance at 16, playing an extra scrubbing steps, was said to distract the audience from the Shakespearean play! Many actors commented on Burton’s extraordinary stage presence, in particular his stillness – the audience were drawn to him even when he was apparently doing nothing. Hypnotherapist Jim Sullivan discusses the fine art of projecting one's personality . . .

Let Me Tell You a Little Story

Instead of cold, dry, easily forgotten facts, an engaging, clever story can communicate the same message with impact, inspiration, retention, and entertainment value.

Writing The Query Letter

The Query Letter can be a writer's strongest sales tool. Find out how!