Dump that Overhead Projector!

Overhead projectors put serious communication barriers between speakers and audiences. Get rid of them. You'll be glad you did - and your audience will, too.

Ancient PowerPoint Secrets: Ask Your Grandma!

Yes, there are ancient PowerPoint secrets...secrets your grandmother knows and is probably willing to pass down to you. But what's this you say? Your grandmother has never even heard of Microsoft PowerPoint? No matter. If your grandma was like mine, she knew something about the power of an effective presentation.

I Love the Smell of PowerPoint in the Morning: The 5 Sensory Approach to Business Presentations

You’re in a conference room. You’re giving a PowerPoint presentation to several of your colleagues... and your boss. On a scale of 1 to 5, how sensual is this experience? And just how important is sensuality in business-related PowerPoint presentation?

Meetings: Keep Them Productive

As a facilitator of a group meeting, you will encounter a variety of problems, one of which involves group dynamics and its effect on productivity.

Group Meetings: Being Prepared Makes a Difference

Productive group meetings depend on structure, which is the responsibility of the facilitator. Here are suggestions regarding the planning of a meeting and how to create an agenda.

Steps to a Successful Audience/Trainer Relationship

Relating to your audience is the most important aspect of an effective presentation. Overcoming your own stage fright and finding a connection with the audience, you can create a relationship that will result in a successful presentation. These steps will lead you down the path to strong training skills.

1,000,001 Reasons To Connect With Your Audience

The goal of public speaking is to connect with your audience. to have a conversation. When you are making eye contact with one person, when you are having a conversation with one person in the audience, the entire audience feels as if you speaking directly to them individually. Eye Contact is Mandatory

Training / Presentation: How to Manage You People Well

This article is a how to on managing trainers. It provides quick tips for survival and success in the training world. The guidelines will help to provide a number of different perspectives in any given situation.

The Right Speaker Makes a BIG DIFFERENCE

With so many speakers available in the market, the success of your event lies in selecting the right speaker who would make a big difference in your conference or seminar.

Watch Out For Power Thieves

When you have to speak to a group or do a presentation, do you ever find yourself saying things like,

Presenting Your Product

We all know the expression “you only get one chance to make a first impression,” well it holds true when it comes to presenting your product to your customer.

Light Up Your Audience with OSRAM - Components of an Effective Business Presentation

What makes an effective business presentation? There are five components to any presentation and for it to succeed you must ensure that all five components are properly addressed.

Presentation Skill Training: The Law of Performance

Not your performance, their performance. The audience must go out and apply the information you have given or they wasted their time. Even worse, YOU wasted their time. As speakers it’s our obligation to supply practical methods for the crowd to make our words and ideas reality in their lives.