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What Is Your Purpose

Take a step back and ask yourself an important question: What is your purpose? You need to have a clear purpose before you dive into choosing visual aids or props for you...

Avoid These Blunders During Customer Engagement

When you say ‘customer engagement’ you are describing the customer’s direct interaction with your company. Sometimes it makes no difference how good your product ...

How to End a Presentation – Making a Good Exit

The Closing Planning the flow of a presentation, a good amount of time is spent brainstorming how the introduction and opening will go. But do you think about how y...

Avoiding Death by Powerpoint

Stacking the Deck! Many PowerPoint presentation slides used in executive presentations are just awful. Most people cannot read and listen at the same time. ...

Extra Ways to Practice Public Speaking

You take the time to plan out the structure of your speech and organize your main points so that the audience can properly digest your information. You also spend coun...

Rapport (Relationship) – The Essential Ingredients of Leadership Development

In life, how you relate to others is everything. In fact, people are willing to forgive a lot of mistakes, as long as there’s a good connection and understanding as a f...

Stand Up For Yourself

You have a big presentation coming up, but it is not easy preparing yourself for it. Feeling anxious or being nervous before a speech is normal, and it may be written all...

Practice Makes Improvement

The research is done. The speech is ready. After piecing it all together, now comes the time to spend countless hours learning what to say during the actual presentation...

An Elephant in my pajamas?

Misplaced Modifiers Groucho Marx: “One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I’ll never know” The term “misplaced modifier” mea...