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Use Storytelling to Build Your Team’s Influence and Reputation

It’s finally happening—your team is getting a seat at the table. After months of trying to get a meeting in front of the C-suite, leadership ...Continue Reading

A second chance: Storytelling with Data, featuring Kraft Heinz

Back by popular demand! It was a packed house at the 2023 Category Management Association/Shopper Insights Management Association conference for one big reason: the top-rated ...Continue Reading

Story First, Visuals Second

In a visual world where the pressure is on to choose the right image, chart, or video for your business presentations, what can help? Storytelling. We’ve ...Continue Reading

TPC Contributes to Training Industry: Want an Executive to Say Yes? Don’t Make These Presentation Mistakes

To give yourself the best chance of getting what you want from an executive, you must first understand their mindset. What do they care about ...Continue Reading

5 Tips for Presenting To C-Level Executives

When it comes to presenting your ideas to executives, we know this for sure: more information is not necessarily better. Unfortunately, most of us have ...Continue Reading

TPC Contributes to Training Industry: Team Presentations: Who Does What?

Doesn’t everyone at some point in their career end up working on a team? You’ve probably had to collaborate with your colleagues on a high-stakes ...Continue Reading

What to Do When Someone Else Will Be Presenting Your Ideas

Your boss just asked you to send them “three to five slides” that they can use to present your idea to their boss. You now ...Continue Reading

Audience is Everything: A Manifesto

Doesn’t it seem that Murphy’s Law (anything that can go wrong, will go wrong) always happens when the pressure’s on, a deadline needs to be ...Continue Reading

3 Tips to Help You Rock Your Next Virtual Team Presentation [VIDEO]

Most of us work on some kind of team where we present our proposals, updates, or recommendations… collectively. Team presentations require a powerful narrative and ...Continue Reading

The Rise of the Frankendeck: What It Is, and How to Avoid Falling Victim to It

  Nobody would blame you or your team for trying to save time building presentation decks. Whether you’re prepping a do-or-die proposal or simply giving the ...Continue Reading

Sanitize Before You Share [VIDEO]

These days we’re all hyper-vigilant about sanitizing our hands and surfaces. But did you know this good hygiene can actually translate into your virtual meetings ...Continue Reading

The Ultimate Guide to Gaining Executive Presence

Think about the last time you were “wowed” by someone in business. Was it the way they navigated difficult questions? How they commanded the room ...Continue Reading

Beyond the Basics: 5 Pro Tips for Delivering Effective Virtual Meetings

There are loads of articles circulating nowadays about how to deliver more engaging online presentations and meetings. Most are filled with generic, barely helpful tips ...Continue Reading

Setting Up Dual Screens in Zoom (Even If You Only Have One Monitor!)

Whether you’re meeting with colleagues, presenting to customers, or facilitating training, Zoom is one of the most popular virtual meeting platforms out there today. So ...Continue Reading

TPC Contributes to Training Industry: Headlines vs. Headings: How Story-driven Slide Titles Instantly Boost Your Ideas

You’ve been working for weeks on your program proposal, and you’re finally ready to present it to your vice president. There she is, sitting at ...Continue Reading

How to Use Color to Build Compelling Presentations

Whether you consciously realize it or not, color is a powerful way to associate ideas or products with certain emotions. The Journal of the Academy ...Continue Reading

5 Ways to Ace Your Next Big Meeting [VIDEO]

Ask nearly any senior leader what their biggest frustrations are and, more often than not, they will answer, “long-winded, unclear communications that pack in too ...Continue Reading

TPC Contributes to Forbes.com: Are Decision-Makers Getting Turned Off Before They Even Hear Your Idea?

When planning any high-stakes communication, knowing who your audience is absolutely essential. But what happens when you are pitching to a variety of people with ...Continue Reading

Easy Guide to Choosing the Right Presentation Visuals

We live in a visual world. Billboards on the highway, TV commercials, and social media newsfeeds are constantly trying to sell us messages. But these ...Continue Reading

4 Simple Tactics to Get Any Emailed Presentation Read

We don’t always deliver our ideas in person. More often, we leave our proposal, sales pitch, or product update to the mercy of the send ...Continue Reading