If constructing a presentation can be pure anxiety, then listening to one can be sheer agony. Both sides dread the experience. It’s like a breakup talk with fewer tears and more clip art. Poor ...

Microsoft PowerPoint may be one of the programs you've used in your business for decades, with its now-familiar ribbon, tabs and easy-to-populate slides. While quickly putting together a PowerPoint is ...

The only thing worse than sitting through a bad PowerPoint presentation is being the one responsible for a bad PowerPoint presentation. Standing up there alone before dozens of strangers (or, even ...

While conducting my research for a new book on persuasion, I talked to Navy SEAL instructors as well as leaders from several branches of the U.S. military. Some are using my books in their classes to ...

Seth Godin, the Guru of Internet marketing and PowerPoint presentations, provides several tips on how to avoid a "really bad PowerPoint." One of his suggestions is to "create a feedback cycle" so that ...

Poor presentations cost companies sales, damage their reputations, and waste executives' time, say Dan Heath and Chip Heath, authors of Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die. Here, they ...