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
Using Icons in PowerPoint? Try These Tips from TPC
Do you use icons in presentations? Icons are a great alternative to photography when it comes to visualizing your ideas. Watch this short video by ...Continue Reading
TPC Contributes to Training Industry: How to Flex Your Story to Multiple Audiences
It happens to the best of us: Mid-presentation, we suddenly notice something both unnerving and terrifying: vacant, bored, or – heaven forbid – hostile faces ...Continue Reading
The Key Ingredient to Communicating Your Ideas Successfully
Think back. Do you remember much from the last presentation you attended? Proposal you read? Virtual meeting you dialed into? If not, don’t panic…you’re not ...Continue Reading
The Top 7 Ways to Investigate Your Audience
One of the most difficult chasms presenters must cross is understanding their audience’s mindset. When you get people in a room (or in front of ...Continue Reading
How to Not FREAK OUT When Your Audience Looks Bored
Your presentation is starting out great. You’ve got highly-visual slides, the technology is functioning, the crowd is paying attention… well wait, they were paying attention. ...Continue Reading
The Best Presenters Do THIS with Their Audience
Recently, we explored a key skill in corporate storytelling – how to build a presentation that addresses the needs of multiple stakeholders (rule of thumb: ...Continue Reading
One Huge Presentation Mistake Even Expert Storytellers Make
Taking steps to understand your audience usually puts you on a promising path for a memorable presentation, right? But what if our careful preparation is ...Continue Reading
Using the Power of Color in Presentations
So much has been written on the psychology of color and using it in presentations to incite emotion and convey ideas. When expressing ideas visually ...Continue Reading
Halloween is approaching…Beware of the “Frankendeck”!
You’re busy. We know. But before you pull in slides from your boss’s deck or grab those charts from the marketing guy, ask yourself: Am ...Continue Reading
5 Tips for Nailing an Executive Presentation [INFOGRAPHIC]
When it comes to presenting to executives, we know this for sure: more data is not necessarily better. Unfortunately, most of us have learned this ...Continue Reading
This Presentation Hack Will Save Your Team Hundreds of Hours Per Year
“I didn’t know if I wanted to cry or laugh knowing how many wasted hours I’ve spent designing decks,” is a line your CFO does ...Continue Reading
TPC Contributes to Inc.com: Want Your Boss to Love Your Big Idea? Follow This Advice
Maybe you've got a new initiative that needs funding, you're trying to close a deal that will skyrocket Q4 revenues, or you're just trying to ...Continue Reading
How to Avoid the Stock Photo Cliché
Most of us have received the memo: dazzling visuals can punch up your presentation. And thanks to stock photo sites like shutterstock.com, istockphoto.com and Getty ...Continue Reading
Cut Your Presentation-Building Time in Half with Corporate PowerPoint Templates
Want to build visual, story-driven presentations quickly? Get ahold of great plug-and-play corporate presentation templates. Yeah, yeah, yeah… you’ve heard it before. Presentations that tell a ...Continue Reading
How to Present Your Ideas Like an Architectural Masterpiece
Do all great presenters have professional copywriters and graphic artists at their disposal? The reality is… no. And they don’t all possess some rare skill ...Continue Reading
How to Give Great Presentations…When You’re Not There
Chances are, you’re probably emailing your proposals, executive summaries, or strategy reviews much more often than presenting them live. And if you’re worried this hampers ...Continue Reading
Want to Save Time in PowerPoint? Meet the F4 Button.
Developing PowerPoint decks takes time… but probably less time than you’re spending now. Let’s fix that. We’ll start with all those functions that need to ...Continue Reading
A Tale of Two Presenters
On any random day, you will find two people, working for the same company, eagerly presenting their product updates, project reviews, and strategy pitches. They ...Continue Reading