Looking for the perfect words to use in your presentation? Put the words aside for a minute and let's create an avatar of a really persuasive presenter. It has three main characteristics: The audience ...

And if you think you're just not the presentation type, think again. "Everybody can improve," said Steve Bennett, a communications trainer for science and technology executives. "Very little of this ...

Creating a video presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint is an effective way to share your ideas in a professional and accessible format. Whether you’re preparing for a virtual meeting, an online course, ...

Nobody cares about those excuses. Presentations can fail for many reasons, and excuses are only a way for you to justify why. But let’s be honest—most presentations do, indeed, suck. But it doesn’t ...

Ordinary presentations are too commonplace now and often fail to have an impact. You need something new and innovative to stand out and impress stakeholders. In the dynamic and data-driven corporate ...

One of the most common objections I hear from leaders who bring me in for presentation training is, “I don’t want to over-prepare. I’ll sound too rehearsed and I want to come across as spontaneous.” ...

At a recent conference presentation, I squinted at the size nine font on the screen while trying to also interpret a tiny graph thrown in among the text. Two minutes in, my brain was already ...

It was 2008. I was chosen for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and the biggest presentation of my life. I had eight make-or-break minutes to launch my career. It was the National Storytelling Festival ...

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Like scientific papers, oral presentations at a conference or internal seminar are for sharing your research work with other scientists. They, too, must convince the audience that the research ...