The best advice is to prepare for any situation that might go wrong. Always have at least one backup of your presentation; ...

PowerPoint receives praise for its ability to enable people who haven't trained as public speakers to make presentations to audiences, but it's also reviled as the reason so many good ideas fail to ...

“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 ...

Although public speaking is on the top of many people's list of anxieties, it's something most of us have to do for work, for church, for school, or for an organization we belong to. In the first part ...

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 ...

Attendees often ask me after I’ve delivered a speech or facilitated a training, how I got so comfortable speaking in front of groups. This is usually followed by: “Do you have any tips that could help ...

Rowena Crosbie, an Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) member from Iowa, is president of Tero International, Inc., a premier interpersonal skills research and corporate training company. We asked for her ...

Unlike a briefing you may have given in the military -- the goal of which may have been simply facts and brevity -- giving a ...

For the past 10 years, I've done presentations on how to do presentations. Nothing like setting yourself a high bar! I learned to present the hard way. As an undergrad at Cornell, I majored in Design ...

I was doing presentation skills training with one of my clients. I mentioned that I thought PowerPoint is one of the worst tools for presenting and is almost always instant audience anesthesia. A hand ...