Be Risky With Your Ideas
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
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). This section also includes articles about using PowerPoint or other similar slide-based software. Please use the Search bar to scan for other relevant words or tags.
By Andy Eklund
How To Say The Right Thing
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
Overcoming Fear of Public Speaking
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.
Common Body Language Mistakes
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
22 Rules of Storytelling
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
What You Need to Tell a Good Story
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
Gestures: Dramatizing Your Words
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
Presentation Skills: A Strong Speaking Voice
This post 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 Introduction to
How To Prepare a Presentation in Six Questions
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
Presentation Skills: Eye Contact
This post 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 Introduction to
Ten Qualities of a Brainstorm Facilitator
When someone asks me out for coffee (literally or figuratively), they often follow their invitation with this declaration. “I want to be a brainstorm facilitator.” Like any occupation, a brainstorm
The Simplest Public Speaking Tips
Usually I conduct workshops for senior experienced executives. Next month however, I have an unusual group: a large group of ‘regular people’ who only need the simplest public speaking tips