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August 29, 2020

Do you use big words to sound smart? Knock it off!

Last week I was talking with a girl, maybe 12 years old, who dropped a big word during the conversation. It seemed like she might've been doing it to see if I knew what it meant. I'll give her a pass since she's young, but there's no excuse for a grown-up like you do do this when you're … [Read more...] about Do you use big words to sound smart? Knock it off!

Communication,  Marketing communications,  Mistakes,  PowerPoint,  Presentation Skills alientation,  audience,  big words,  Cheating Death by PowerPoint,  Death by PowerPoint,  jargon,  Laura Foley,  Laura M. Foley,  Laura M. Foley Design,  powerpoint,  presentation,  presentations

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March 11, 2019

How inclusive are your presentations?

From being picked last for a team in gym class to not being invited to an after-work get-together, it feels bad not to be included. I recently experienced that sensation firsthand. And I didn't like it one bit. Could you be creating that same feeling of exclusion during your own presentations and … [Read more...] about How inclusive are your presentations?

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