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
TPC Contributes to Training Industry Magazine: 3 Simple Data Visualization Tricks that Turn Your Numbers into Narratives
Ask any executive what their biggest frustrations are and, invariably, they will answer, “long-winded, unfocused presentations that pack in too much data.” Modern institutions – ...Continue Reading
The Single Fastest Way to Gain Executive Presence
Executive presence… you’ve either got it or you don’t, right? ...we beg to differ. Whether you are a data guru or a budding manager, anyone can ...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
Podcast: The Power of Storytelling (Featured on Brandon Hall HCMx Radio)
TPC co-founder and storytelling evangelist Janine Kurnoff joins the Brandon Hall Group podcast to discuss the power of storytelling in business and how every single ...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
Calling Out Your Key Data: Part 3 of TPC’s Data Visualization Series
Throwing a bunch of tables and charts into a presentation doesn’t make for great data visualization – just ask your boss. :-) Nobody wants to ...Continue Reading
TPC Contributes to Forbes.com: 4 Simple Ways To Make Data Easier To Understand
Are you a data nerd? Do you love ‘mining the numbers’ for deeper meaning and trends? Then you’re in the right place. The amount of ...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
Got Data? Here’s How to Give It Meaning [VIDEO]
We spend an incredible amount of time and money collecting data. That’s because data justifies nearly every business decision we make. But too often, we overwhelm customers, ...Continue Reading
TPC Contributes to Forbes.com: For High Stakes Email, You Need A Killer Subject Line
For a startup, reaching investors, board members, key partners and business reporters is essential to your success. But most business people get over 100 emails ...Continue Reading
Podcast: How to Plan Your Presentations for Effective Results (Featured on Business of Story”)”
Ready to directly confront your fears and anxieties about presentations? Good. Janine Kurnoff, Co-founder of the Presentation Company, joins Park Howell's Business of Story Podcast to ...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 Forbes.com: 3 Things Your Company Needs To Know About Storytelling
Remember the last time you were stuck in a business presentation with endless bullets, heavy data, and text-filled slides? Last week? Yesterday? Right now? Business ...Continue Reading
The Common Language of Sales and Marketing? Storytelling.
Ah, sales and marketing. They go together like peas and carrots. Macaroni and cheese. Peanut butter and jelly. First, the talented marketers gather clever insights, ...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
3 Instant Ways to Give Your Data More Meaning
If you’ve ever had to present data, you’ve undoubtedly wondered about what visuals to use. Beyond making your data look great, you want it to ...Continue Reading