How To Be Professional

What does it mean to be a professional? What is required and equally what is not required? Do YOU measure up?

Making a Buck From Presenting - You Can Do It!

If you know something about training and can present fairly well, you'll never be short of a dollar. If you happen to be famous - or even infamous - you can do very well. People are hungry for information. You have information. You can sell it to crowds who will happily pay to hear what you have to say.

My Overhead Projector Has What?

Are you tired of wasting projection lamps? Does your Overhead Projector keep blowing lamps as soon as you turn the projector on? We can help you understand why and help you solve this common problem.

Has Your Overhead Projector Had Its Annual checkup?

You take your car in for service every 3000 miles to have the oil changed. You see your doctor every year for your annual checkup to ensure goo health. So why would your Overhead Projector be any different?

Creating a Professional Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation

Creating a PowerPoint presentation that really stands out at work is more complicated than you might think. However, by following a few simple guidelines you can really make your presentations shine.

Presentation Skills - What To Put In, And What To Leave Out

More presentations fail because they contain too much than fail because they contain too little. Learn the skill of staying focused on your aim.

Communicate to Connect: The Power of Attunement

By shifting from hypervigilance to attunement, we own our feelings, become more open and receptive and pave the way for authentic communication.

Brain Storming with MindMapper

Brainstorming with MindMapper. How to take...

Presentations – Are You a Hand-Washer or a Reluctant Nudist?

We all have our own unique way of putting information across. This often includes an unconscious mannerism which suddenly pops up when we are in front of an audience. What's your presenting style?

Microsoft Smites the PowerPoint Princess

Have you ever noticed how big business often exhibits little common sense? As if they had nothing better to do, Microsoft has sicced the lawyers on a tiny, one-person part-time consulting business. Even if the law is on the side of the little guy, who can afford to go up against the Giant? After owning and using the domain name www.PowerPointPrincess.com for nearly half a decade, I suddenly was contacted by an attorney from a firm hIred by Microsoft Corporation and told to shut down my site.

That's Learnertainment

I remember one particularly difficult college class I taught, and the two students who were likely to fail. They, like many in a growing segment of learners, had short attention spans. They expected more value in less time, but wouldn't listen well enough to find that value. Instead, they would become bored, and ignore the learning.

Hocus Pocus Focus (Part 2)

“When we are absorbed in anything we are unaware of time; and so it seems to pass quickly.” Magician Sam Sharpe This is part two of a two-part article that focuses on magicians and trainers. In Part One, we discovered that magicians and trainers have a number of similarities.

Talkin' 'Bout Pop Music

This article discusses the application of pop music in Hollywood movies and offers suggestions for enlivening any classroom, training event or meeting with pop music.

We Don't Do Presentations

This is a gentle think-piece about whether or not you're making presentations at work. Some people think they aren't: a few of them are right.