Powerful Presentations Depend on Feedback
How do you know your Presentations are Powerful? Get REAL feedback Presentations are powerful things. When they’re done well, they can persuade an audience, enhance the presenter’s credibility and motivate…
Best Briefings: How To Deliver A Briefing Your Boss Will Thank You For
Briefing, noun brief·ing \ˈbrē-fiŋ\: an act or instance of giving precise instructions or essential information. As usual, Webster's definition is a useful starting point for helping us focus on the…
Presentation Show and Tell: Presentation Skills for Senior Executives
The “show” in ‘show and tell’ presentations, is slowly making a comeback in corporate America. It’s a development that is long overdue. Long, dense, dry text projected on conference room…
Presentation Skills and the CEO: Why the chief explanations officer has to get it right
Senior executives and CEO’s in particular, often assume they will be judged solely by what they do. What they say, and especially, how they say it, is presumed to carry…
Presentation Mastery: What You Can Really Learn From Obama’s Oratory Skills: This Isn’t Acting
When someone makes the difficult look easy, we tend to label him or her “a natural.” President Barack Obama is no exception. His ability to move people through soaring rhetoric…
Public Speaking: Getting Past the Fear Factor
Mark Twain said it best: “There are two types of public speakers: those who are afraid and those who are liars.” Even for those of us who enjoy it, public…
On Executives and Elevators – Perfecting the ‘Pitch’
If you're an executive, you probably already know the value of a powerful 'elevator pitch'; that thirty second dazzling display of verbal brilliance designed to deftly sum up your position,…
Presentation Skills: The How To’s of an Effective Welcome Speech
They’re short and not generally substantive. That’s why welcoming speeches don’t tend to get the respect they deserve in the realm of speech making. Seen as what they are though:…
Investor Presentations Basic Training
Few appearances will test your ability to communicate well more than the investor presentation. Doing your homework, settling on strategy, developing messages, honing a pitch and delivering it well, will…
Public Speaking For Executives Embracing the Challenge
If you're climbing the ladder of success, you're going to need the right equipment. If you're an executive looking to influence others, gain attention for your ideas or assume a…
