Here’s a sobering scientific fact: 10 minutes into your presentation, most audience members are surreptitiously looking at their watches. Blame their brains. Writes John Medina in Brain Rules, “before ...

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Think back to the last time you were mesmerized by a magnificent public speaker. What went through your mind? Did you think, “Wow, I wish I could give presentations like that. I’d love to be able to ...

Looking for a way to avoid the boredom of the PowerPoint. There’s a way to streamline your content with a simple three-part structure. Try creating a “presentation sandwich” — with the delicious ...

Marketing plans are an extension of your business's vision. If your company exists to offer the best product available, your marketing plan is the vehicle that will drive you toward that goal. The ...

Fearless public speaking is about more than combating nerves. It’s about knowing the technique, the art, and the business of public speaking. Tricia Brouk is an award-winning director, writer, and ...

“Death by PowerPoint” is alive and healthy in corporate meetings around the world. The bad news is that we will have to sit through insufferably long and boring presentations for a long, long time.

Most people are more afraid of public speaking than of death itself. In fact, research shows that public speaking is in fact one of the most common forms of social anxiety. Regardless of your reason ...

Many books have tactics for giving a good presentation but few establish a reliable structure that works every time. In The New Articulate Executive: Look, Act and Sound Like a Leader Granville ...

Although public speaking is on the top of many people's list of anxieties, it's something most of us have to do for work, for church, for school, or for an organization we belong to. In the first part ...