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Creating Presentation Messages are Presenters’ #1 Headache

Results from Distinction Communication’s 2010 Annual Presentation Impact Survey… Question: What do you find to be the most challenging part of creating and delivering a presentation? 45.3%     Putting together a good message that flows & connects 10.5%     Creating good quality & professional-looking presentation slides 9.7%        Delivering the presentation with confident & credible skills 34.3%    All of [...]

Finding Your Groove Thing…

No, this blog is not about buying that little red convertible you’ve always wanted or learning to ‘break a move’. It’s about finding an even more important groove that impacts nearly every day of your life…  Recently I spent a half-day with a very senior executive in a Fortune 50 company. This gentleman is one [...]

Insight from Distinction’s 2010 Presentation Impact Survey

First of all, thanks to all those who participated in our 2010 Presentation Impact Survey in December. As always, it was an eye opener.  (Also, congrats to Ken Venables who won the Dell Mini laptop for participating in the survey!)   Our annual survey expanded a bit this year… we got responses from around the globe, tried to better understand the [...]

Sage Advice for Presenters in 2011…

As I write this year-end blog posting, I was trying to think of what profound piece of advice I could offer up to the thousands of people I come in contact with over the course of a year.  I’m cautious because there seems to be no end to the ideas hocked to presenters these days that range from the latest, [...]

Distinction’s 2010 Presentation Impact Survey

It all started innocently enough last year… We wanted to know firsthand the things that were working well for you in the presentation process and the issues that were causing you sleepless nights. The 2009 results surprised us, confirmed things we suspected and caused us to scratch our heads at the apparent contradictions…   86.1% [...]