Have your advanced presentation skills propelled your career? Hmm......my guess is probably not. The ability to inspire, persuade and motivate through presentations is rare.  The ability to bore an audience to death? Much more common. But presentations are tricky things to avoid. Especially as you move up the corporate ladder.  And they count right? [...]

It is 9am in a leadership workshop. I am listening to an experienced speaker. She is confident, well spoken, professional and credible. But there is a problem. I am bored. Really bored. I am trying my hardest to listen. My very hardest. But I am failing. Miserably. And I am not alone. Looking around [...]

Seven deadly sins of the confident presenter We all know the sins of the nervous presenter: Reading slides, quiet voice, looking at the ground - the list goes on. But what we rarely talk about, are the sins of the more confident presenter. The people who present most often, the leaders, or those born [...]