The International Presentation Academy

 Many business presentations today engage in an audience-unfriendly practice of using slides that are overloaded with text. It’s tempting to think that this could be helpful to an international audience. But for the majority of internationally mixed audiences whose language skills are only sufficient enough to follow along with the speaker,  using text simultaneously will be a distraction. Presentations Skills Training Courses More precisely, we know from our own experience that reading bullet sentences while trying to follow the speaker talk at the same time is a difficult exercise. That’s because text projected onto a screen is not really “visual support” per se, even though we’ve come to think of it as such. Indeed, there’s nothing visual about it at all. Text, at its most basic level, is a symbol (letters, sentences) of another symbol (spoken words). In essence, reading requires the mind to decode symbols at two layers of abstraction with each subsequent layer moving at...

  One of the most important skills for employees of an international company, whose company language is English, is the skills of writing clear and concise communications. This is not only true for needing to communicate to their international clients and suppliers. But it’s especially true for internal communications. Indeed, for career advancement, there is perhaps an even greater requirement to write project briefs and requests, reports, executive summaries, meeting summaries, and emails in a clear, concise and professional style than there is for external partners.  Business Writing Course  . The reason for this is that good business decisions depend on clear communication. This is true up and down and across the company structure. It is far easier to coordinate internal projects and share ideas when all coworkers understand the ideas that are being put forth, as well as processes for completing the project. When employees understand what they can expect of each other...