Below is a list of our most recent presentation skills articles and videos.
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Archive for the ‘presentation skills’ Category
Don’t Make Yourself Obsolete!
How many times have you sat through a seemingly unending presentation that used slides, wishing you were in the dentist’s chair getting a root canal instead? Many people in the working world where slide presentations are used seem to have forgotten one of the golden rules of making a good presentation: Don’t make yourself obsolete! [...]
How to Engage Your Audience From the Very Start in Presentations
Quick Presentation Skills Tip We all want to deliver presentations that will engage our audience from the moment a presentation begins, but there’s something you can do to capture your audience’s attention before the presentation even starts. Have a great title. The key to a great title is to include the result of the presentation [...]
June through August Public Speaking Class Schedule
Upcoming Public Speaking Classes Below is a list of the upcoming Fearless Presentations ® presentation skills courses in the United States, Canada, and Europe. Fearless Presentations ® is a 2-Day public speaking course that is held in select cities all over the world, so if you don’t see your city below, just visit the seminar [...]
Presentation Skills Checklist
When folks go through our presentation skills classes, they are often surprised at how simple we make designing and delivering fairly complex presentations. In fact, one of the things that we cover in the Fearless Presentations class is how to design an entire presentation, from start to finish, complete with a slide deck in fifteen [...]
PowerPoint Tip Video-Use Pictures Properly to Better Explain Your Presentation
PowerPoint Tip Video: Use Pictures Properly to Better Explain Your Presentation This is PowerPoint Tip #6 of Ten in the PowerPoint Tip Video Series. Pictures can add a lot of clarity to your presentation, but only when we use them properly. Pictures just for decoration sake can add confusion, but remember that a picture is [...]
Avoid Overuse of Animation in PowerPoint Presentations (Video)
Free PowerPoint Tip #4: Avoid Overuse of Animation in PowerPoint Slides PowerPoint will do some really cool types of animation, but remember that if you animate something, it should help you clarify your point. Bullet points that fly in, spin around, make sounds, and blink are just a distraction from your message. For the most [...]
Reduce the Data on Your PowerPoint Slides-Video PowerPoint Tip
Reduce the Data on Your PowerPoint Slides-Video PowerPoint Tip Too Much Data on Your PowerPoint Slides: Your PowerPoint slide deck should be a visual aid to help you explain your point, so if you put too much data on a slide (too much text, too many numbers, or charts and graphs – gasp – Is [...]
Eliminate Death by PowerPoint (Public Speaking Tip Video)
New PowerPoint Tip Video Eliminate Death by PowerPoint is a new public speaking tip video in our PowerPoint Tip series. This is video #2. Too many PowerPoint slides cause the audience to be bored and lose interest, so remember that in public speaking visual aids, less is more. Reduce the number of slides in your [...]
What is the Most Embarrassing Thing that has Ever Happened to You or Someone Else in a Presentation?
What is the Most Embarrassing Thing that has Ever Happened to You or Someone Else in a Presentation? We’ve ll had those hiccups in presentation delivery where we either just freeze, or a visual aid malfunctions, or we prepare an hour-long speech and are told just before we start that our available time has dropped [...]
PowerPoint is a Visual Aid Not the Presentation
This video is a first in a series of PowerPoint Tips to help viewers more quickly and easily design and deliver PowerPoint Presentations. Tip #1 is that PowerPoint is a Visual Aid, Not the Actual Presentation. Most people start designing their speech by creating their slideshow, but that is backwards. If you design your presentation [...]