Category: Presentation Skills

Be Risky with Your Ideas! is Post #10 in a series from a presentation entitled 11 Great Creative Slip-Ups:  The Most Common Mistakes in Coming Brainstorming. The introduction to the series begins

Communications has been my entire career. Most of that time was me doing the communicating, but likely as much time was spent writing messages for someone else to say. Did

Whether speaking to a large group in a public setting, or presenting to a remote audience through technology, overcoming your fear of public speaking isn’t easy, but it is manageable.

Many moons ago, tips for improving on-camera presentations were exclusive to people giving media interviews. But thanks to new technologies – hello Zoom, Webex, Teams, Meet, Slack, not to mention

So much of presentation skills focuses on the messages and its delivery (rightly so), but it’s never a bad idea to remind ourselves of the common body language mistakes we

Here are Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling, written by Emma Coats, one of Pixar’s story artists. This is great stuff, but perhaps not as relevant for developing stories in business presentations

One of the simplest, if not best, way to engage an audience is to tell a good story. Storytelling is as old as the world itself. They were the first

This post about gestures is #6 in a longer series of articles based on a presentation I gave to the Public Relations Insitute of Australia on “How To Make Your Audience Listen Better.” The

This post on a strong speaking voice is #6 in a longer series of articles based on a presentation I gave to the Public Relations Insitute of Australia on “How To Make Your

From an earlier post –  – I’m adding more detail on how to prepare a presentation in six questions. Notice the word prepare. Many people will find that an unprepared mind will