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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

This One Small Investment 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 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

Webinar: How to Connect with Executives Through Story | Watch Now

You’ve got minimal time with big decision-makers. They’ve got competing priorities. Want to make your time count? Learn to create a strong, story-filled narrative they’ll ...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

Webinar: Using Data Visualization to Tell Your Story

  Looking for simple yet powerful data visualization techniques? We've made it easy. TPC Co-founder and data storytelling expert Janine Kurnoff demonstrates some of her favorite ...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