Most presentations are laden with unnecessary data, try to cover too much, and do little to change the audience's mind. Here are four steps to putting together a presentation that is focused, relevant ...

When it comes to advancing your career, persuasion is a place where ChatGPT can help. On so many levels, persuasion is the key to your professional success. Persuasion will help you to win the ...

This post describes a foolproof and easy way to craft a presentation that causes an audience to ACTUALLY AND TRULY MAKE A DECISION. I'm talking the real deal here. The kind of show-stopper ...

How many of us realize that giving a presentation or making a speech is all about persuasion, influence, and emotional intelligence? Impactful presenters understand the power of empathy to understand ...

Over the past month, I attended three conferences. Each one brought together some of the greatest minds in B2B sales and marketing. Sadly, some of their presentations distracted us from their ...

B. J. Fogg called it captology, the science of how you get computers (think apps) to persuade people to do things. Fogg and his compatriots at Stanford have raised captology to a fine pitch, making it ...

How to use Design Ideas to spruce up your PowerPoint presentations Your email has been sent Microsoft PowerPoint offers several tools to try to help you create a more engaging, interesting, and ...

Selling can be challenging. But it is a mistake to think that the way to improve your closing ratio is to dump so much information on a listener that the person feels obligated to do business with you ...

An intelligent scientist taught me a fundamental rule of persuasion. I apply the rule to my keynote speeches and teach the concept to CEOs, entrepreneurs, and graduate-level students at Harvard. The ...

In her Wall Street Journal presentation, “Ending Gender Inequality at Work,” Facebook COO and founder of Leanin.org Sheryl Sandberg did all of that — and much more. In a three minute 18 second clip, ...