Did you know that after 30 minutes, 90% of the material covered in a conventional lecture-style presentation is forgotten? This stumbling statistic highlights a common challenge in the world of ...

Someone once told me, “The most successful salesman is a confident salesman.” I have found this to be extremely accurate. Confidence results from the absence of doubt; such absence of doubt comes from ...

The first step in mastering presentation lies in preparation. The old saying: “failing to prepare is preparing to fail” holds truer in this arena than anywhere else. A presenter, who has researched ...

There are millions of business presentations given daily around the planet. You probably feel like you participate in many of them. Here’s a question for you: When was the last time you sat through ...

How can I put this delicately? Your presentations? Bo-ring. It’s not that your slide deck isn’t chock full of useful information. It’s that they’ve seen it all before. At the first sign of a static ...

If you're one of the estimated 300 million people participating in Zoom meetings every day, you're probably struggling to keep your audience's attention or fighting to stay awake yourself. A recent ...

What application springs to mind when you think of creating visual aids to accompany your business presentation? For most people, it’s Microsoft’s PowerPoint. But that’s certainly not the only game in ...

I’ve recently pointed out that some top CEOs, including Jeff Bezos and Jack Dorsey, have banned PowerPoint (i.e. presentations) from internal meetings and instead start with a silent reading of a ...

From million-dollar slide shows to Steve Jobs’s introduction of the iPhone, a bit of show business never hurt plain old business. It’s 1948, and it isn’t a great year for alcohol. Prohibition has come ...

Distraction is rampant in the new hybrid workforce. Canva, a visual-communication and design platform, explains why workers zone out in presentations. Canva's intuitive software lets you create ...