Articles to Improve Your Skills
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12 Interactive Presentation Ideas to Engage Any Audience
Interactive presentation ideas help turn passive listeners into active participants. Whether you’re leading a meeting, delivering a sales pitch, or running a training session, the right activity can encourage discussion, increase participation, and make your message more memorable. You are going to discover 12 interactive presentation ideas, when to use them, who they are best…
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5 Steps to Make a Presentation Interactive
Make your presentation interactive by planning audience participation before creating your slides. Instead of adding activities at the last minute, build them into your presentation from the start so they support your goal and keep your audience engaged. This approach works for team meetings, client presentations, workshops, and conferences. Every question, discussion, or activity should…
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Before You Send Your Team to Communication Training, Figure Out What’s Actually Wrong
Usually, something happens before a company starts looking for communication training. A sales team loses a deal they thought they should have won. A manager watches someone give a presentation and realizes it wasn’t nearly as good as it should have been. Or maybe a technically brilliant employee gets in front of senior leadership and…
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Which Employees Should You Invest in Developing First?
As a manager, you always have to make choices. Your professional development budget probably cannot cover everyone, and you may not have the time or resources to develop every employee at once. That leaves you with a decision: Who should you invest in first? The easy choice would be to send the employee who asks…
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Why Good Ideas Get Ignored in Meetings
The best idea in the room doesn’t always win. A lot of the time, the clearest one does. I once watched two people present almost the same solution to a leadership team. The first person knew the subject inside and out. They walked through the research, the charts, the technical details, and everything that had…
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Why Good Salespeople Lose Deals They Should Win
Your best salesperson just lost a deal to someone who knew less about the product, had a weaker solution, and probably charged more. It doesn’t make much sense until you look at what happened in the room. Your salesperson knew the product inside and out. They understood the competition, the pricing, the implementation process, and…
