I learned at Skip Barber’s racecar driving school that “when you spin, put both feet in.” This means that if you’re on the racetrack and your car spins out, press the clutch and brake hard, fast and ...

The lights dim and you sink into the conference room chair, bracing yourself for yet another sales pitch. You preset your expectation dial to low while selecting the highest setting for your ...

Public speaking is one of the most feared acts in America today. We have all one time or another experienced when a presentation fall off the rails. If this happens, don’t panic and keep your cool.

Microsoft PowerPoint may be one of the programs you've used in your business for decades, with its now-familiar ribbon, tabs and easy-to-populate slides. While quickly putting together a PowerPoint is ...

There are as many excuses for giving bad presentations as there are stars in the sky. Nobody cares about those excuses. Presentations can fail for many reasons, and excuses are only a way for you to ...

My only prediction for 2015 is that you're going to give a lot of presentations--and sit through many more. So one of your resolutions should be to avoid the pitfalls of bad presenting. The fact is ...

Nonprofit officials are so focused on educating the public that they frequently resort to boring, data-saturated presentations that fail to connect with their audiences emotionally, according to a Los ...

A client of mine came to me after being blacklisted for giving one of the most boring PowerPoint presentations in history. True story. Ok, maybe not blacklisted but he certainly wasn’t going to get ...

Our story noting Pentagon leaders’ displeasure with PowerPoint presentations but questioning whether there was any escape from eye-glazing slideshows struck a nerve with many readers. And most of them ...