by danielrdz3@gmail.com | Oct 10, 2023 | Presentation Skills, Uncategorized
Not surprisingly, a study by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency shows a correlation between room temperature and the ability to concentrate. The study showed that between 70 and 75 degrees Fahrenheit is the optimum temperature for classroom students. Any lower...
by danielrdz3@gmail.com | Oct 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
On February 1, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia disintegrated over Texas and Louisiana on re-entry, killing all seven crew members. Edward Tufte, the foremost theorist of information presentation, published a booklet titled The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint, in which...
by danielrdz3@gmail.com | Oct 10, 2023 | Leadership Skills, Uncategorized
At Communispond, we’re in the business of helping people and organizations achieve effective communication. And we continually encounter the realization that effective communication is about more than clarity and speaking well. It is also about conveying messages that...
by danielrdz3@gmail.com | Oct 10, 2023 | Presentation Skills, Uncategorized
I recently posted about how knowing the point of your presentation can help you focus it while you’re preparing it. But if you are trying to give a persuasive presentation, as opposed to an informational one, you need to take a step beyond making a point. You need to...
by danielrdz3@gmail.com | Oct 10, 2023 | Leadership Skills, Presentation Skills, Uncategorized
I have a friend whose desk is littered with reports, sticky notes, scraps of paper, pens, business cards, quickstart guides, half-eaten rolls of Lifesavers, and thumb drives. The other day, I got a look at his computer desktop. It looked like he had replicated his...
by danielrdz3@gmail.com | Oct 10, 2023 | Presentation Skills, Uncategorized
In the 1970s, Albert Mehrabian, a communications scholar at UCLA, sparked a revolution in our understanding of presentation skills. His experiments showed that a listener’s emotional response to a speaker’s message had more to do with the speaker’s...
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