As a result, Hollywood resorts to special effects that are quick, visually exciting or gross, and story lines move at a pace where the viewer feels somehow empty at the end of the movie because the characters were never fully developed. Know your audience Before designing a presentation, you should familiarize yourself with participant statistics. Identifying factors such as types of careers represented, level of management responsibility, gender, age, and other pertinent information will help you build a program which is relevant and focused. MEMBERS LOGIN Home SPEAKER SERVICES Speaker Services Get Found Now!

That is a gross generalization, I know, but as a cultural axiom, there is little denying that the background of the loyal and zealous Mac user is more creative than that of the corporate-based Windows user. These types of statistics are meaningless. In the course of the past two weeks, I have read three separate writings that hail Apple Keynote as the antidote to Death by PowerPoint and a savior to the presentation community. Please.

But if we’re going to do this exercise at all, we have to deal in gross stereotypes. Because because statistics show that people get meaner as they get older. Here’s an interesting question: Is there an optimal age that a company should want the majority of its employees to be? In other words, do people of a certain age make better employees, in general? Here’s