“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 ...

Over the last several years I've given a few hundred presentations. I like to think I get better each year, but that doesn't happen automatically. As a result of consulting experts and reading a lot ...

Companies prepare business proposals for several purposes, including arranging financing, responding to tenders and planning business partnerships. A business proposal may be in the form of a written ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Okay, campers, last time, we discussed what you needed internally – that is, within your business – to be able to effectively make an offer as a speaker from the stage, presenting your company and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...