What If The Audience Is Rude?
You’re written a good presentation, developed slides which were visual and colourful. You’ve rehearsed, standing up, using gestures, making sure your voice was loud and clear. As a result[…]
Category: Presentation Skills
Posts under Presentation Skills focus on managing the three key elements of good presentation skills, either live or remotely: Content (your messages), Delivery (what tools to convey messages), and Technique (physical and non-verbal communications).
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Leadership Is Communications
For the next several weeks, I have the luxury of living at a client’s business school campus. One benefit among many is access to its small but impressive library of[…]
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Organizing Your Thoughts, Harry Potter Style
The website Film reported last week how author J.K. Rowling organised her book with nothing more than a pen, notebook paper and a grid system. You can see how she plotted it[…]
Writing in PowerPoint
Some days I wake up to a marvelous gift via e-mail. This morning, my friend Hertha Meyer sent me this The New York Times article on the U.S. military and its[…]
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Verbal vs Nonverbal Communications
You may not recognise the name, but Albert Mehrabian authored some of the most famous studies in communications research. His most well-known hypothesis: When two people communicate face-to-face, how much[…]
Best Business Slides, by Nigel Malone
If you’re looking to spice up your presentations, I offer here some of the ‘best business slides,’ courtesy of brand strategist Nigel Malone. A freelance brand strategist and writer, Malone put[…]
