When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Tomas Fryscak The thought of standing on stage and talking to a packed auditorium might ...

I was doing presentation skills training with one of my clients. I mentioned that I thought PowerPoint is one of the worst tools for presenting and is almost always instant audience anesthesia. A hand ...

Companies prepare business proposals for several purposes, including arranging financing, responding to tenders and planning business partnerships. A business proposal may be in the form of a written ...

There are few experiences more demoralizing than looking out at your audience during a presentation and seeing one of your coworkers out cold. Okay, so he was probably just tired. But a great ...

Someone once told me, “The most successful salesman is a confident salesman.” I have found this to be extremely accurate. Confidence results from the absence of doubt; such absence of doubt comes from ...

Think back to the last time you were mesmerized by a magnificent public speaker. What went through your mind? Did you think, “Wow, I wish I could give presentations like that. I’d love to be able to ...

Public speaking can reduce grown men to quivering wrecks. Public speakers can also reduce their listeners to quivering wrecks of tedium and despair. There is little worse than listening to some ...

I was sitting across the table from a Silicon Valley CEO who had pioneered a technology that touches many of our lives — the flash memory that stores data on smartphones, digital cameras, and ...

It’s bound to happen in your civilian career. Maybe you’ve been asking your boss for more responsibility, or perhaps you raised your hand to volunteer to give a presentation because you seek ...

The thought of standing on stage and talking to a packed auditorium might make you want to dry-heave in the corner. But public speaking can be one of the most effective tools for self-promotion in a ...