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How to Change Your Zoom Background [VIDEO]

So, here we are... working from home. If you’re like many of us, you’re logging in virtually from your kitchen, living room, or your bedroom. ...Continue Reading

The Ultimate Guide to Conducting Virtual Meetings

It’s never been more critical to communicate clearly and purposefully in a remote environment than now. But how do we get started? How do we ...Continue Reading

3 Ways Your Team Can Avoid Slowdown and Thrive Online

Here we are. Our new reality for the next few weeks (or months). A whole bunch of people working from home, some super-comfortable conducting business ...Continue Reading

TPC Contributes to Training Industry: Drowning in Data? These 3 Simple Visual Tricks Will Rescue You

Picture this: Your team is prepping for a presentation to win a big deal … or have a budget approved … or (fill in the ...Continue Reading

3 Storytelling Tips Your Team Needs to Know in 2020

How will teams elevate their ideas and drive business forward in 2020? Well, much like in years past, they’ll gather information, build a strategy, develop ...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

TPC Contributes to Training Industry: The Key Skill Your Boss (Desperately) Wants You to Have

Everyone wants to boost his or her professional skill set to become more credible and influential. The question is, which skills should we focus on? ...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

Visual Storytelling: Improve Your Executive Presence and Catapult Your Career

Want to naturally “own the room,” navigate difficult questions, and influence decision-making? The magic happens when you apply storytelling to business communications. Watch this video ...Continue Reading

How Do I Tell a Story in an Email? [VIDEO]

Ever wonder how you can apply storytelling to something as simple as an email? Watch this short video to see a vague, confusing email transformed ...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

5 Tips for Building Engagement through Storytelling

By Melony Bravmann, Chief Learning Officer at The Presentation Company. The human brain is wired to learn. It’s also wired for story. Stories help learners connect ...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

The Best Kept Secret to Telling A Compelling Data Story [VIDEO]

One of the most common—yet dangerous—mistakes you can make when creating data visualizations is making your audience work hard to understand your key insights. The good news? ...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

Boost Your Data Visualizations: Try Thinking “Outside the Chart” [VIDEO]

Data justifies nearly every business decision we made. But too often, our valuable insights get buried among the "noise" of traditional charts and tables. Our best ...Continue Reading

7 Data Visualization Tips That Will Immediately Amplify Your Message

These days, it’s a battle royale trying to hold people’s attention. To make matters worse, we often needlessly clutter our slides with data and obscure ...Continue Reading

TPC Contributes to Forbes.com: Even The Financial Sector Can Use Storytelling To Close Deals

The financial services industry – heavy on data and metrics – might not seem like the right place for corporate storytelling. But dry, generic messages ...Continue Reading

5 Peer Coaching Tips You Can Easily Action

Are you reluctant to give feedback to colleagues? You're not alone. Nearly all of us are tasked with collaborating with peers at some point in ...Continue Reading