Presentation and Facilitation Skills

Effective presentation and facilitation skills help you and your teams solve problems and make good decisions by ensuring you are communicating the right information, in the right way.
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How much do your meetings cost you?

Meetings can be useful for solving problems, making decisions or building trust. Unfortunately, when they’re not organized well, meetings can drag on far longer than necessary, meander off-topic or have…

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How PowerPoint Can Weaken Your Presentation

PowerPoint has become an essential tool for presenters in today's digital age. It provides a visual aid to reinforce the key points and to make presentations more engaging. However, the…

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Common Virtual Meeting Issues and How to Manage Them

As a general rule, take the time to email a meeting agenda ahead of time to all participants and include instructions on how to join the virtual meeting. Even with the proper preparation, there is no guarantee that every meeting will run…

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Top Tips to Ensure Your Virtual Meeting Isn’t a Waste of Time

Nothing is more discouraging than logging out of a meeting wondering what was actually accomplished—and feeling like it was a waste of valuable work time. It can be frustrating for everyone but is easily avoided. Let’s take a look at some ways…

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The Toughest Part of Training to Evaluate: Results

Examining organizational results is often the toughest, but also the most important, evaluation for your organization. We don’t spend time and money on training because it sounds like a good idea. Organizations spend time and money on training…

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Evaluating Training by Examining Performance

Evaluating performance means taking your training beyond the classroom. You’ve already taken a training class and confirmed you learned what you were supposed to. Now ask yourself, have you taken your new knowledge or skill back to the workplace…

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Create Great Meeting Minutes with this Tip
Did your last set of minutes take you hours to prepare?   One way to reduce the time it takes for you to prepare your meeting minutes is to use a template. However, the trick is to use a template not only for the meeting minutes that…