You find all sorts of problems in group work. Anyone who has participated in even one group project in college knows this. Perhaps you believe these challenges are external to you? Others cause problems, because surely you must not be contributing to the challenges facing your group? Let’s examine, understand, and overcome these challenges before … Continue reading Surviving Group Work – Part I
One of the keys to a successful business presentation is the right kind of practice, and this means avoiding two common practice mistakes. This is even more important with a team presentation with more moving parts and variables. The good effects of the right kind of diligent rehearsal is twofold: 1) Your material is delivered in … Continue reading Avoid Two Big Practice Mistakes
Why is so much Bad PowerPoint out there in the corporate world? I suspect that the reason for this is mimicry and corporate incest. In the absence of good habits within an organization, bad habits perpetuate themselves, especially if senior leadership is the culprit. If the model within a firm is average or below-par, then … Continue reading Especially Bad PowerPoint
If you want to regale your presentation audience with an especially powerful presentation story, you must position the audience inside your story with Sensory Involvement. Sensory Involvement is a powerful technique that imbues your presentation story with sensuality. You engage the senses of your listeners so that they experience the story rather than simply hear it. … Continue reading A Sensual Business Presentation Story
Business Presenting is filled with paradoxes. For instance . . . the quizzical Power Zone. Here is the power zone paradox: The Power Zone is a place everyone wants to be, but where almost no one wants to go. This is really the strangest thing, and it always amazes me anew the reasons people concoct … Continue reading The Power Zone
YOU Can become an Astronaut in 8 Easy Steps . . . with McTips! 10 Tips to Become a Nuclear Physics God! 3 Tips for Winning Your Next Court Case! Great Doctors are Natural Born . . . It’s talent, not study! 5 Easy Steps to Powerful Presentations! Pernicious Myths . . . There are two pernicious myths regarding … Continue reading Train to be a Rocket Scientist in Your Spare Time with McTips!
No, I’ve never heard you speak or deliver a presentation. But judging from what I hear in the classroom, in the elevator, on the subway, and in the campus coffee shops, the odds are good that your voice is probably pinched and smaller than it ought to be. This is a result of many influences … Continue reading Cartoon Voice, Uptalk, and Dum-Dums
Do you ever consider how you actually appear to people with regard to your facial expressions? Many folks seem oblivious to their expressions or to a lack of expressiveness, their faces dull and lifeless. Nondescript. In your business presentation, you communicate far more with your face than you probably realize. And this can be an … Continue reading Your Especially Powerful Expression . . . Encore!
Oftentimes, we don’t consider that our physical appearance transmits messages to those around us, and this surely includes our presentation appearance. Most certainly, the appearance of a speaker before an audience conveys non-verbal signals. This happens whether you are conscious of it or not. Send the Right Message Your appearance sends a message to your … Continue reading Presentation Appearance Matters . . . a Lot
You communicate far more with your face than you probably realize, so you should be aware of how expression in presentations can enhance or degrade your business presentation. Your facial expressions can reinforce your message, confuse your audience, or detract from your message. Yes, there is something called bad expression, and at its worst, it … Continue reading How to Use Expression in Presentations
Executive Presence is a quality we all wish we could have. The good news is that we can develop it to add immeasurably to our personal competitive advantage. The paradox for some folks is that those with the most potential for especially powerful executive presence often intentionally diminish their capability for it It’s a kind … Continue reading Executive Presence: Become a Colossus
Not many of us readily accept coaching or suggestions of how to improve ourselves, particularly when it comes to highly personal aspects of our very being – such as our business presentation voice. Business students get antsy when I talk about improving the presentation voice. Why? Because the subject implies that there might be such … Continue reading Improve Your Business Presentation Voice for Power and Impact
Four of the most dreaded words in Business School are: “Break yourselves into groups.” The group presentation in business school is so ubiquitous now that almost every upper level course has some form of “group work” requirement. There’s good reason for it – industry expects new hires to have experience working in groups. More than … Continue reading Especially Powerful Group Presentations
I am always struck anew by the similarities across countries and cultures with regard to international business presentations. More precisely, the delivering of business presentations across cultures. The pathologies that afflict American Business Presentations show themselves in India . . . in France . . . in Russia. And now, I discover yet another country and cultural … Continue reading International Business Presentations – Colombia
Some experts estimate that you have an initial 15 seconds – maybe 20 – to hook and hold your audience for your business presentation. And with a kaleidoscope of modern-day distractions, you face an uphill battle. In that short window of less than a minute, while they’re sizing you up, you must blast into their minds. … Continue reading Mind-Blast!
As a business presenter, you obviously want to cultivate the most effective voice you possibly can. Doesn’t this make sense? So that you might communicate most effectively? Put another way, doesn’t it make sense to eliminate what is unpleasant, ineffectual, shrill, and dissonant from your voice, if possible? Well, some people don’t think so. If you … Continue reading Your Especially Powerful Voice
Earlier, I related how Malcolm X did not do much preliminary throat-clearing at the beginning of his powerful presentations. Instead, he thrust a metaphorical sword into his audience. He drove deeply to the heart of the issue in just a few short sentences, tapping into listener sensitivities. In the process, he achieved an especially powerful personal competitive … Continue reading The Powerful Presentation
One of the most important job interview tips for college students that I give involves business presenting. The job interview is likely the most important business presentation you will ever give. This is because in the interview, you present for your most important client – you. And the question I’m asked most frequently with respect to … Continue reading Best Job Interview Tips for College Students
Whether the finance presentations class is in Philadelphia . . . or Mumbai . . . or Cali . . . or Chennai . . . I hear the same universal and eerie refrain from finance students – “Finance Presentations are different.” “We don’t do all of that soft-skill presentations stuff.” “For us, the numbers tell … Continue reading Finance Presentations: “We’re Different”
Let’s say that you’re assigned the ToughBolt business case . . . that means it’s time for presentation preparation. How to do it? Your group has produced a written analysis. It’s finished. It’s time to present before the directors of the Toughbolt Corporation. What now? How do you “prepare?” Apply the sound method of correct Preparation – the … Continue reading The Three Ps – “Presentation Preparation”
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