I'm a public-speaking expert, and I've trained many executives and senior teams. I tell all of them to stop starting work presentations with a salutation or a "hello." Instead, you should engage your ...

I was recently tasked with creating a presentation for a client. I was unsure as to whether it was going to be verbally presented via Zoom or handed off via email, so I needed to edit the presentation ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Rachel Wells is a writer who covers leadership, AI, and upskilling. The corporate world has a meetings problem. And if you're ...

A couple years ago I was asked to speak at a conference in Chicago. I prepared, in traditional journalistic fashion, by doing everything at the last minute and then walked into the event expecting a ...

Other AI tools let you outsource the work. NotebookLM helps you get better at your work. And that's why, even after dozens of presentations, I still upload my outlines to NotebookLM before I start ...

When his company vice president requested a presentation to the executive team, William (not his real name) felt a familiar twinge of anxiety. Because William was aware he used too many filler words, ...

Sudha Mani is a tech entrepreneur and management consultant who has sat through and made many presentations during her career. Not all have gone well, including the time she found herself on the wrong ...

Remote working has slowly started taking precedence over working in the office and because of that our professional lives have taken an unusual turn. Zoom meetings, audio conversations, virtual ...

Full disclosure: this paper is based on a presentation I gave in 2019 at an academic conference. I often engage in “double-dipping,” which I would describe as recycling or repurposing your own work ...