Whether you’re a business owner, employee or leader, presentations are a useful tool to relay a powerful message to your desired audience. Presentations are unavoidable in business, so it’s important ...

The lights dim and you sink into the conference room chair, bracing yourself for yet another sales pitch. You preset your expectation dial to low while selecting the highest setting for your ...

“Alright, Mike. You go on stage in 3 . . . 2 . . . 1. Go for it!” says the stagehand at DesignThinkers, a major graphic design conference in Toronto, Canada. I walk out on stage, waving to a dark sea ...

I recently had a long conversation with Peter Handal, the CEO of Dale Carnegie Training, on the subject of giving great presentations. I've read (and written) plenty of posts on this topic, but Handal ...

Looking for a way to avoid the boredom of the PowerPoint. There’s a way to streamline your content with a simple three-part structure. Try creating a “presentation sandwich” — with the delicious ...

Let's be honest: Delivering a great presentation is not only hard but also critically important to your business. If done correctly, a presentation often means the difference between getting that new ...

Listeners like a vertebrate speech or presentation–a talk with a spine. They dislike gelatinous, invertebrate talks. They like all the parts of the speech hanging together, all the ribs connected to ...

I saw an interesting article in the November 2008 print version of Fast Company called “Presentation Pep Talk: How to Prevent Bad PowerPoint from Happening to Good People.” It was written by Dan and ...

For the past 10 years, I've done presentations on how to do presentations. Nothing like setting yourself a high bar! I learned to present the hard way. As an undergrad at Cornell, I majored in Design ...