Body language, Development, Presentation skills, Uncategorized
Fess up. Ever bomb an interview? Maybe it was for a job your really wanted. Or a talk with your boss about a salary increase. Or critical performance review. Or an important sales call. It’s a little bit like a bad dream, because you probably know you’re...
Body language, Development, Presentation skills, Uncategorized
From winning a job to winning new business for your job, presentation skills are both fundamental and an area for continual development. Body language is key. Body language impacts and sends messages to people all the time. We need to be aware of what our bodies are...
Development, Presentation skills, Uncategorized
At a recent Advanced Presentation Skills workshop, we spent a day with the senior vice presidents of sales representing a global manufacturing organization. We asked these SVPs if they regularly used stories as part of their business communications, from informal...
Development, Uncategorized
This article is the first of a series that will discuss storytelling’s unique power in business communications. We recently talked business and storytelling with Chris Laney, President and CEO of Greensboro, NC-based Zenergy Technologies, a software delivery solutions...
Development, Presentation skills, Uncategorized
Almost all of us will have to speak in front of an audience at some point or another. Whether it’s an internal report to colleagues, an external presentation to current or prospective clients, or a fundraising ask to the local PTA, speaking in public can be nerve...
Development, Uncategorized
We’ve all sat through presentations that are boring, poorly organized, or hampered by overuse or misuse of audio visual tools. And what happens? We tune out. And we might be missing information we really need to have. Sometimes we have to give presentations that...
