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Need to Develop Your Speaking Skills?
Join our Speaking Skills Boot Camp for an intense speaking skills workout.
In this half-day program you will participate in multiple speaking skills exercises that will get you up on your feet and bef...
Keys to Business Storytelling
“People want story because story fits the mind. It is how the mind absorbs, sorts and structures reality.” Robert McKee
Storytelling is an extremely effective way to share information with an audience...
Ideas to Engage Your Audience
Think back to the last presentation you heard. Was it engaging and captivating? Did you find yourself anticipating what was coming next? Were you pulled into the presentation by the presenter? Most...
Making it Concrete with Cookies
How can you bring pizzazz to a presentation that focuses primarily on financial or numerical data? Here's how Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's did it.
To get people's attention, he created an animated s...
Looking for a Way to Engage Your Audience?
If you have several topics you want to cover in your talk, how about getting your audience to help you announce the topics? Our client, Lee Roper-Batker, President of the Women's Foundation of Minneso...
Leave Your Listeners With a Visual Image
When you want to convey the impact of numbers or statistics, it helps to leave your listeners with a visual image. Using charts or graphs is one way to do that, but it may not always be your most crea...
Last 30 Posts
- Need to Develop Your Speaking Skills?
- How do you convince employees to embrace a new vision?
- Keys to Business Storytelling
- Tip Card Library
- Ideas to Engage Your Audience
- Your Presentation Template Makes The Difference Between Dull And Dynamic
- Clip Art…You have Options.
- A Picture…Worth a 1,000 (less) Words
- Let’s Get Visual
- Take the next step toward more creative slides
- It’s all in the colors you choose (and use)
- Customize your presentation’s color scheme
- Does your PowerPoint need a facelift? Or maybe an extreme makeover?
- Take the PowerPoint Toxicity Test!
- Remedies for Toxic PowerPoint
- Do Most of your Slides Contain Bullet-point lists?
- Explain Your Thoughts and Ideas with Pictures Instead of Words
- The Cure for Bad PowerPoint, Remedy #4
- Give the Audience an Agenda
- For great PowerPoint design, get your images out of the “box”
- The Dos and Don’ts of WordArt
- Use gradients to add flair to your design
- More design tricks
- How to Create Enthusiasm for New Ideas
- Overcome Resistance With the Right Story
- How Can You Make an Abstract Concept Come Alive?
- Inspire Your Listeners by Sharing a Personal Experience
- Innovation Comes From Small Beginnings
- Make the Complex Easy to Understand
- How Valuable is Your Time?