by Brian Burkhart | Aug 8, 2016 | Our Blog
During the presentation skills workshops I regularly run, I always start with a video created by the U.S. Marine Corps. It’s one tough video. Helicopters and tanks, amphibious vehicles, big guns and smoke-filled explosions. And of course, strong, resilient Marines...
by Brian Burkhart | Jul 20, 2016 | Our Blog
Nine years ago on July 19, 2007, AMC debuted a new series that wasted no time garnering an infatuated audience: Mad Men. Centered around the “golden age” of advertising on Madison Avenue in New York in the late 1950’s – early 1970’s, it quickly gained a...
by Kaylee Conrad | Jul 6, 2016 | Our Blog
About a week ago, the SQP design team was slapped with a harsh critique. A brand we were creating was accused of lacking an emotional draw. Excuse me, what? Us—SquarePlanet? Preachers of why and harpers of human connection? We created a logo without considering how it...
by Maxx Parcell | Jun 29, 2016 | Our Blog
We fancy ourselves Pirates of the presentation world. And not because we have a passion for eye patches and talking parrots. We’re pirates because like pirates hundreds of years ago, and even how Steve Jobs coined it, we believe in following a different set of rules....
by Maxx Parcell | Jun 15, 2016 | Our Blog
In today’s business environment, not a single decision is made without clear, comprehensive, and sometimes overwhelming amounts of data to help inform it. Salary decisions are guided by performance metrics, new products are developed based on market trends, even...
by Maria Ranahan | Jun 8, 2016 | Our Blog
There’s a difference between talking at and talking to your audience. Are you sharing information with them that they actually want to know and will benefit from? If you’re not, you’ve already lost them. The most common presentation advice we give to speakers is “know...