Stop asking your audiences “Where are you from, and what do you do?” Instead, start telling them what they can expect and why they should listen. It gets harder and harder for me to be all happy and chipper about getting on a Zoom meeting and the speaker or facilitator…

People won’t necessarily tell you your presentation wasn’t the best, but you can feel it, not knowing exactly how to remedy it. You finish your presentation, and you think to yourself that it wasn’t half bad. But. It wasn’t great either. There’s something about it that you just can’t put…

Spoiler Alert: Finger-pointing in a presentation will never work in your favor. In November 2022, I decided to treat myself to a professional manicure, something I had not done in years. (Up to that point, my version of giving myself a manicure was pulling out the clipper or the emory…

If you make presentations only once in a while, then you definitely worry about your performance. Here are four strategies to keep you speaker-ready. NOTE: This will be the last article until the new year. Have a very merry holiday season, and I’ll see you in 2023! After we were…

Your audience, your brand, and your business deserve everysinglething you can do to give a top-notch presentation. Every. Single. Little. Thing. Who doesn’t love a confident speaker? I’m telling you — you can smell one from a mile away. And when it’s time to step onto the stage for your…

If you do not immediately give your audience value, then do not be surprised if several of them decide to immediately tune you out. I’m not sure if aging has something to do with it, if it’s my shortening attention span (although I thought your attention span was supposed to…

Make your presentation more about the audience and far less about you. I love creative marketing and any fun and creative usage of the English language. …

No matter how much planning and practicing you do, it’s bound to happen. You will have a difficult audience member, and how you address them will make all the difference with your presentation. If I have extra time before the start of a presentation, I will make the most of…

Is that possible? Can you really be ready to deliver a presentation with little to no notice? The answer is “yes” and “no.” It’s complicated. On a recent flight, I was seatmates with a man who read his Bible for the bulk of our trip. I, instead, feverishly worked away…