Dan Heath looks like a buttoned up sportscaster as he sits in front of the New York skyline at a broad cherry desk. His brother Chip sits next to him, looking gleefully wonkish, with wire-rimmed glasses and a broom of fine… Read More »Presentation Tips: Super Glue Presentations
As PowerPoint reaches its 20th birthday, Lee Gomes of the Wall Street Journal reflects on our love/hate relationship with “one of the most elegant, most influential and most groaned-about pieces of software in the history of computers”: While PowerPoint has… Read More »PowerPoint Presentation Skills: PowerPoint’s 20th Birthday
As PowerPoint reaches its 20th birthday, Lee Gomes of the Wall Street Journal reflects on our love/hate relationship with “one of the most elegant, most influential and most groaned-about pieces of software in the history of computers”: While PowerPoint has… Read More »PowerPoint Presentation Skills: PowerPoint’s 20th Birthday
I occasionally hear from clients that they don’t want to change their style as presenters. The implication is that any behaviors I recommend that are outside their range of normal will be artificial and ineffective. They just want to be… Read More »Presentation Coaching: Presenting Outside the Comfort Zone
Body language talks, or BLT for short. Something in the way we stand speaks volumes. Good posture is not only good health, it looks good. Why? Good posture communicates self-confidence and belief in what you have to say. It indicates… Read More »Public Speaking Tips: Persuasive Posture
Traveling to a foreign country, we will have trouble communicating with the locals if we don’t speak their language. We may also have trouble reading their facial expressions. Hillary Elfenbein of the University of California at Berkeley has done a study… Read More »Communication Skills Training: Facial Dialects