How to Make Eye Contact in a Virtual Meeting

We all agree making direct eye contact with others in business is important, right? So why do we see so little of it on video calls or virtual meetings? Because it’s not easy!  Most people get stuck looking at the other person’s picture or video. They may occasionally glance at

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Get out your snorkel! Selling in the time of Coronavirus

My first job was selling advertising for KBPI (Rocking the Rockies for 50 years!) In radio, your success was closely tied to your ranking in the quarterly audience ratings.  Buyers who controlled the biggest media budgets would often only buy the top two or three stations in a particular demographic

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7 Signs Your Presentation is Dated: Modernize Now!

 Ah the eighties.  A great decade for music, parachute pants and PowerPoint!  Launched in 1987, PowerPoint revolutionized the way we pitch to clients and speak to audiences.  PowerPoint is still going strong 40 years later, but in order to better connect with modern audiences they’ve adapted their style with design

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Step-by-Step: How to Be your own Presentation Coach

Coaching is as vital to a presenter as it is to a performer.  If you’re not seeing what your audience is seeing, you’re operating in the dark.  While you may get occasional “drive-by” coaching from a manager, a peer or at a workshop, without a consistent and clear way to

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What the heck am I looking at?! A Forgotten Software Demo Best Practice

As a demo and presentation skills coach, I have seen more than my fair share of software demos – along with their associated screens, tabs, search bars, drop downs, notifications and text fields.  Some screens are so busy Lewis and Clark armed with a GPS would get lost!  But even

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