After years of speaking to groups of all sizes, I still do not think I have it down completely. I had to really think hard, therefore, when a friend asked me recently how I gave such good talks and if I would mind sharing my "secrets."

If you're looking for a way to get your presentation to stand out and really captivate your audience, look to the video. Not only are videos easy to publish inside of PowerPoint, but they can deliver results.

I used to have a preacher who was so bad that the only way I could get through his sermons was to rewrite them in my head. Here are three main reasons most presentations are terrible -- and how to fix them.

You are trying to convey the tricky mixture of spontaneity, authority, and audience contact, and to do that you have to be able to concentrate on the audience and their reaction, rather than on finding the right word or phrase.

Today we can show charts and graphs, photographs, interactive spreadsheets, and animation. Great. So how do most presenters use this new facility? By making the most boring slides imaginable.

Writing cover letters in PowerPoint apparently works wonders. An applicant for an analyst job at Citigroup scored an interview after submitting an 11...

Has anyone done a good estimate of the number of hours per year we spend applying fancy formatting to presentations? I'm willing to bet it's a terrify...

If you are suffering from death by PowerPoint -- or presentations in general -- here are several ways that you can simplify and improve your communications.