Presentation Skills
Date Created: December 1st 2009
Last Updated: February 6th 2010
01/31/2012 09:59 PM
10 Tips for Influencing Others: by Claudyne Wilder
Do you want to be more influential in your meetings and presentations? Consider doing these behaviors so that you are on top of the content as well as your presenting style. Get approval of the content: Talk to people who know the audience, and find out the interests of the audience. Talk to at least two people just to be sure you are getting accurate advice.
01/26/2012 09:21 PM
Speaking Practically: Conversation with Kelly Vandever
In an attention-deficient, entertain-me-now, wait-while-I-post-that-on-my-Facebook-page kind of world, the typical business presentation is lame. Professional speaker, trainer, coach, tweeter and blogger Kelly Vandever works with organizations who want to take their strategic business presentations from Lame to Fame! In this conversation, Kelly discusses visible changes in the world of presentations, and the use of Twitter as a means to interact with their audience.
01/12/2012 09:21 PM
Add Value to Your Slide: by Claudyne Wilder
A typical PowerPoint presentation includes the speaker reading the slide and maybe including a couple of other sentences that are not on the slide. That is backwards. This upside-down pyramid shows how conveying the data itself is one small piece –- and perhaps the smallest -– of your presentation. Your task as a speaker is to communicate information that is not on the slide. Let’s start at the bottom of the inverted pyramid.
01/10/2012 09:03 PM
Speaking about Speaking: Toastmasters International - by Kevin Lerner
Every Friday precisely at noon from a small dining room in the back of Duffey's sports bar in Boynton Beach Florida, someone bangs the gavel five times. To the group of 30 men and women that have gathered for the weekly luncheon meeting of the Bill Gove Golden Gavel Toastmasters Club, it's a signal to get down to the business of speaking. For the next 60 minutes, the members will learn, laugh, and work toward the common goal of Toastmasters International: improve communications and leadership skills. Founded in 1924, Toastmasters International has helped over 4 million people to become more confident speakers and leaders. Today, over 270,000 Toastmaster members improve their speaking and leadership skills by attending one of the 13,000 clubs that make up the global network of meeting locations.
01/01/2012 08:36 PM
The Firestarter Experience: Conversation with Bess Gallanis
Bess Gallanis is the founder of Speaking with Power and Persuasion, an executive communications consulting firm based in Chicago. She is a communication coach, speaker, journalist, a student of yoga and insight meditation and the author of Yoga Chick (Warner Books, 2006). In this conversation, Bess discusses The Firestarter Experience, her new workshop on communication and presentation skills.
12/18/2011 09:23 PM
Duarte.com/edy: Conversation with Eric, Doug, and Corey
Soon after we did the Halloween Pumpkin Contest conversation with Nancy Duarte, we planned another one with her about Duarte.com/edy -- but she graciously mailed back saying "Duarte.com/edy is the creation of Eric Albertson, Doug Neff, and Corey Rothermel. I'll let them answer your questions directly." Thank you, Nancy!
12/04/2011 08:58 PM
Do You Get in Your Own Way?: by Claudyne Wilder
What happens when you get in your own way as you present? You dilute the message, distracting both the audience and yourself. You lose the intent and focus of the talk. Here are some ideas on how not to get in your own way. Walking from one specific spot to another is fine, but beware of shuffling from foot to foot - it's distracting to your audience. If you're not sure you're a shuffler, then stand on a piece of paper. People who shuffle usually rock from side to side moving their feet ever so slightly or rock back and forth. You will hear the paper noise as you move from one foot to the other. Do, however, plan to walk to and stand in several places. Just be sure you don't block your audience's view of the screen.
11/30/2011 08:54 PM
Book Review: How to Give a Great Presentation by Nick Morgan
There is a new trend with ebooks -- they are getting smaller all the time! Typically ebooks were just electronic versions of regular books that had a hundred pages or more and needed more than a day or two to read, especially if you had other full time work to take care of. Now, ebook authors have realized that it's no longer necessary to take a concept that fits into 16 pages, and extend it to an entire book -- so you get ebooks that are direct in their approach, get straight to the point -- and you learn something new within an hour! Nick Morgan's new book, How to Give a Great Presentation fits the description in the preceding paragraph. It is compact, and direct in its tone.
11/29/2011 09:59 PM
Air Display: Conversation with Dave Howell
Dave Howell is the founder of Avatron Software, the mobile app developer that created Air Sharing, Print Sharing, and Air Display. Before starting Avatron, Dave was a senior engineering manager at Apple, where he worked on the Pro Apps and Productivity Apps teams. Dave has Computer Science and Music degrees from Case Western Reserve University and a Cornell MBA. In this conversation, Dave discusses using their Air Display product to use an iPad as a presenting tool.
11/28/2011 11:08 PM
This mailer comes to all of you after Thanksgiving, and while this day is not celebrated all over the world, it does have relevance to the way we all approach our days and lives, wherever in the world we may be. Just in case you missed our Thanksgiving gift to all of you last week, here's your last chance to get our Thanksgiving PowerPoint Kit -- there are no hidden offers, no upgrades or anything else -- this is 100% free! And we haven't stepped back from creating new tutorials as well -- let's just request you to scroll down to find the content. We also start a new series of posts on the hot topic of iPad Presenting.