In April 2012, my 15-year-old son had a homework assignment to develop a PowerPoint presentation on a career he would like to pursue. The goal of the presentation was to conduct research on the education requirements and provide details of the aspects of the career. With a passion for engineering, he decided to research a [...]

Dave Hill – Speaker, Trainer, Author, and Speech Coach Visualize a highly technical meeting where there are about 40 people crammed into a conference room. They are listening to technical presentation after technical presentation for a full day. The delivery mode is primarily PowerPoint with lots of wordy data in the slides. The technical data [...]

If I was to ask you to visualize an engineer presenting clearly and concisely, illuminating his points with stories and humor you would probably scowl with skepticism. The following is an example of an engineer who is dedicated to being an exceptional presenter. In February 2012 an African engineer was presenting to his peers on [...]

Dave Hill – Speaker, Trainer, Author, and Speech Coach When people visualize presentations, they usually envision someone standing at a lectern delivering a speech or a PowerPoint presentation. Think about all the meetings you have attended where everyone is sitting at a table and someone is trying to convey information and get people to agree. [...]

  Dave Hill – Speaker, Trainer, Author, & Speech Coach What do you do when asked to give a speech to 600 middle school students…in the school gymnasium? The answer to this question is…. you say, “YES,” you thank them for the privilege, and then you prepare like you have never prepared before. This was [...]