Reduce the Data on Your PowerPoint Slides-Video PowerPoint Tip Too Much Data on Your PowerPoint Slides: Your PowerPoint slide deck should be a visual aid to help you explain your point, so if you put too much data on a slide (too much text, too many numbers, or charts and graphs – gasp – Is [...]

The Super Bowl wasn’t the only important event in Indianapolis, Indiana.  The Leaders Institute held another Public Speaking Workshop right after the historic game.  The people attending the workshop realized that they had a lot in common with the football players.  They learned that it takes practice to be great at anything involving skill.  Just [...]

Public Speaking class in San Francisco allows participants to overcome the fear of public speaking through.  The Leader’s Institute® conducted its Fearless Presentations® public speaking class to a small but mighty group of people who started off shy and ended up bold and engaging public speakers. The participants in this class wanted to overcome the [...]

New PowerPoint Tip Video Eliminate Death by PowerPoint is a new public speaking tip video in our PowerPoint Tip series. This is video #2. Too many PowerPoint slides cause the audience to be bored and lose interest, so remember that in public speaking visual aids, less is more. Reduce the number of slides in your [...]

Participants in the Detroit Fearless Presentations Public Speaking Class Learn about the Importance of Making Good Eye Contact and Smiling at the Audience. Many times, people who have some nervousness in public speaking don’t make good eye contact with the people in the audience.  This is one of the biggest mistakes that you can make [...]

Atlanta, Georgia — Participants in the Atlanta Fearless Presentations public speaking class Learn How to Handle Adversarial Questions. Every once in a while, someone will try to purposely trip you up in a presentation by asking a question that’s main intent is to make you look bad or show that you don’t know what you’re [...]

What is the Most Embarrassing Thing that has Ever Happened to You or Someone Else in a Presentation? We’ve ll had those hiccups in presentation delivery where we either just freeze, or a visual aid malfunctions, or we prepare an hour-long speech and are told just before we start that our available time has dropped [...]

The Fearless Presentations Workshop in Washington DC was another total success.  The class was full of determined individuals wanting to improve their presentations and public speaking skills.  The quality of the instruction was equaled to the efforts of the attendees.  The overwhelming consensus of the people was that they felt like the class greatly reduced [...]

Fearless Presentations® class in Phoenix, Arizona helps participants become more confident speakers. Many of the participants in the class experienced a fear of public speaking and nervousness that was holding them back in their careers. In the Fearless Presentations® class, participants are able to overcome the fear of public speaking by immediately practicing the exercises [...]

This video is a first in a series of PowerPoint Tips to help viewers more quickly and easily design and deliver PowerPoint Presentations. Tip #1 is that PowerPoint is a Visual Aid, Not the Actual Presentation. Most people start designing their speech by creating their slideshow, but that is backwards. If you design your presentation [...]