Articles to Improve Your Skills
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6 Things To Consider Before Choosing A Presentation Method
Your presentation method—that is, how you deliver a presentation—is just as important as organizing your material ahead of your presentation. How you deliver your message is a vital component of the message itself. Your goal is to engage your audience and compel them to listen and act on what you’re saying. For that reason, you…
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7 Ways You’re Using PowerPoint Wrong
Think back to the last presentation you heard that used PowerPoint. Was there anything memorable about it? How was PowerPoint used, and did it add value to the presentation? Too many times we see people using PowerPoint as a crutch. Instead of delivering a strong presentation that’s augmented by PowerPoint, the presenter hobbles through his…
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The Perfect Elevator Speech
Practice, Practice, Practice When was the last time you practiced on your elevator speech? What happened the last time you actually put it to use? If you’re staring blankly at the screen right now, wondering what an elevator speech is and why in the world you would ever possibly need one, here’s a crash course.
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Meet the Press
Dealing With the Media So you have to do a media interview and you sense the crowd may be hostile. Understanding that you may be asked some tough, pointed questions has you a bit on edge. Certainly you’d like to control the situation and get out of there with your hide still intact while at…
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How to Use Gestures Effectively
How To Have Effective Gestures We talk a lot about verbal and non-verbal communication in our public speaking workshops, but what exactly is non-verbal communication? To put it simply, it’s the way you communicate through body language or gestures, and it’s a critical component of presentation skills training. To make a gesture is to move…
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Effective PowerPoint Tips
Using PowerPoint Effectively Who hasn’t attended a meeting or presentation where the speaker overused their PowerPoint Presentation and created a slow death for their audience? You know; the one that had 125 slides and went through them in 20 minutes. Or the presenter that had to read each slide because the font was too small.…