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Presentation Skills: 9 Visual Communication Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid

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9 Visual Communication Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid

“Penguin doing the moonwalk while eating a banana.” That’s what your crappy visual communication looks like during your presentation. Here are the top 9 visual communication mistakes that make you look stupid in your presentation… Mistake #1: Synchronized signing You know how you spent all that time practicing your gestures? …Complete waste of time! As […]

1 Painful Fact About Your Visual Communication

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1 Painful Fact About Your Visual Communication

One of the things I see in every presentation training session I deliver is the overuse and incorrect implementation of gestures by participants. Gestures are an expressive method of visually communicating your message as you talk. For example, you say something like, “There are two options we can choose from…” And as you say the […]

2 Different Ways to Do Visual Communication in Your Presentation and Which One is Wrong

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2 Amazingly Different Ways to Do Visual Communication and Which One is Wrong

Gestures. When you do a presentation or speech you have so many things to think about, “gestures” take a back seat. Gestures are a movement of part of the body, especially the hands or head, to express an idea or meaning. And gestures really help in a presentation. They make us look confident. They emphasize the message. […]

The Secret Key Everyone Ignores to Improve Your Presentation

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The Secret Key Everyone Ignores to Improve Your Presentation

PowerPoint can’t help your speech. An extra bullet point just won’t do it. Vocally emphasizing those important points is not going to cut it. But, you can improve your speech dramatically. There is one secret. A secret right under your nose. A secret so straight-forward you’ll be amazed you never though of it before. It’s […]

10 Things Awesome Presenters Do Differently

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The highlight of Stuart’s presentation was the end. Like a successful hostage negotiation, the 15 captives made a dash for the door as soon as they knew it was over. Not having shown his entire deck of 90 slides, Stuart announced he would email them to everyone just as hostage number 15 darted to freedom. […]

Improve Your Public Speaking With 7 Easy-to-do Tricks

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Improve Your Public Speaking With 7 Easy-to-do Tricks

Whether you are a beginning public speaker or a seasoned one, there is always room for improvement with your public speaking skills. In this post I’ll share how to improve your public speaking using using 7 easy-to-do tricks which helped me when I was starting out as a presenter, and continue to help me to […]

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10 Ingredients of a Knockout Presentation (Number 9 is Impossible)

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9 Visual Communication Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid

Presentation Skills: 9 Visual Communication Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid

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“Penguin doing the moonwalk while eating a banana.” That’s what your crappy visual communication looks like during your presentation. Here are the top 9 visual communication mistakes that make you look stupid in your presentation… Mistake #1: Synchronized signing You know how you spent all that time practicing your gestures? …Complete waste of time! As […]



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The 11 Best Presentation Hacks You Will Ever Need (#7 is Pure Genius)

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The next 15 minutes were going to be a horror show. Lenny stood at the side of the stage waiting to be introduced. One hand filled with a stack of cue cards, the other hand covering a ginormous yawn. He’d hadn’t slept the night before and was paying for it now. His hamburger lunch had […]



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