“Alright, Mike. You go on stage in 3 . . . 2 . . . 1. Go for it!” says the stagehand at DesignThinkers, a major graphic design conference in Toronto, Canada. I walk out on stage, waving to a dark sea ...

For the past 10 years, I've done presentations on how to do presentations. Nothing like setting yourself a high bar! I learned to present the hard way. As an undergrad at Cornell, I majored in Design ...

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 ...

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 ...

Facing an audience alone can be anxiety-producing. But copresenting with others brings its own set of challenges as well: from confusion to unclear roles. I once taught a class in which students were ...

Public speaking can reduce grown men to quivering wrecks. Public speakers can also reduce their listeners to quivering wrecks of tedium and despair. There is little worse than listening to some ...

Have you ever seen a really great presentation? Honestly, they’re pretty rare. Michael Foley is an educator and coach, and founder of Clarity Central, a communications training and consulting firm ...

Whether you’re a business owner, employee or leader, presentations are a useful tool to relay a powerful message to your desired audience. Presentations are unavoidable in business, so it’s important ...

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 ...

Fearless public speaking is about more than combating nerves. It’s about knowing the technique, the art and the business of public speaking. You must also: KNOW HOW TO PITCH. When you master the ...

Seventy percent of employed Americans who give presentations agree that presentation skills are critical to their success at work, according to a new Prezi survey. My first reaction? The other 30% don ...