Most ad agency new business presentations stink. Period. Most are bloated ramblings that ignore the client’s key concerns, fail to tell a simple story, or neglect to position the agency in a unique ...
In every presentation, there are three possible outcomes for the presenter: A good impression was made. A bad impression was made. No impression was made. The biggest blunder most presenters make is ...
If constructing a presentation can be pure anxiety, then listening to one can be sheer agony. Both sides dread the experience. It’s like a breakup talk with fewer tears and more clip art. Poor ...
Achieving the blissful state of not sucking isn’t hard. You just need to know the three core reasons why most presentations suck and act on that knowledge. Nobody cares about those excuses.
I’ve never done an exact count, but I believe it is safe to say that nearly every single one of the corporate presentations that we design and advise on for our clients is to communicate good news, or ...
Public speaking is one of the most feared acts in America today. We have all one time or another experienced when a presentation fall off the rails. If this happens, don’t panic and keep your cool.
A measure of how bad presentations in academia can be is the sheer number of tips and strategies we’ve suggested on ProfHacker, in a recurring series called A measure of how bad presentations in ...
Many moons ago, when I was just a young chap going through nursing school, I had an instructor whose entire class consisted of PowerPoint slides that she would quote. In the years that have followed, ...
Nonprofit officials are so focused on educating the public that they frequently resort to boring, data-saturated presentations that fail to connect with their audiences emotionally, according to a Los ...
I recently came across a fantastic article by the sales consultant and trainer Colleen Francis about common presentation mistakes that salespeople make in front of customers. As I read it, I realized ...