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Adele Sommers, Ph.D. is the author of the award-winning "Straight Talk on Boosting Business Performance" success program. She helps people "discover and recover" the profits their businesses may be losing daily through overlooked performance potential. Adele is a business consultant and the president of an award-winning chapter of the Society for Technical Communication (STC). To learn more about her tools and resources, visit her site at http://LearnShareProsper.com.
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 10 Tips for Designing Extraordinary PresentationsWhat's the overarching formula for making the very best possible impression on your audience when you deliver a slide presentation? This article gives an overview of a powerful, 10-part formula for creating and delivering truly outstanding presentations. It embodies a set of artistic and story-telling principles derived from experimental research on how people best learn, remember, and apply information from multimedia presentations. Promote Yourself Professionally with Information ProductsMany people wonder how to use self-published information products to boost their business accomplishments, expand their marketing reach, and attract new clients. You can use information products in myriad ways to propel your success, whether you're a CEO, manager, consultant, freelance service professional, entrepreneur, aspiring author, or instructor. This article explains what they are and offers case study examples of how to use them. Reversing the Risks for Your Clients and Partners (Part 2)How do you reassure potential clients or partners that it's safe to proceed with projects they may have been considering, but have been putting off because of their concerns about the economy? This article, the second in a series, suggests more ways to reduce, remove, and even reverse the risks of doing business, making it far easier for prospective clients and partners to say "yes." Reversing the Risks for Your Clients and Partners (Part 1)How do you encourage potential clients or partners to move forward with projects they might have been considering, yet are postponing because of the current economic climate? This article, the first in a series, suggests how you can reduce, remove, and even reverse the risks for others of doing business with you, easing their fears and worries and making it far easier for them to say "yes!" Steps Management Can Take to Ensure Training TransferTraining is a powerful improvement technique that offers tremendous benefits when it's judiciously used. This article discusses management's role in supporting the many factors that influence how well people transfer to their jobs any training they receive. Management's support is essential to assuring the long-term return on any training investment. Should I Train or "tune Up" My Organization?Is there a standard cure for every performance gap? When your organization detects areas it wants to improve, it's critical to prescribe the right remedy for each situation. This article explores two ways of many to close achievement gaps, using 1) training and 2) organizational tune-ups to remove "burning hassles" and obstacles that hinder productivity. A Best-practice Blueprint for Banishing "burning Hassles"Your organization may be experiencing "burning hassles" -- the sometimes hidden and sometimes obvious obstacles and sinkholes that keep people from performing ideally and dissolve morale, productivity, and customer satisfaction. This article provides the step-by-step, "how-to" formula for detecting and resolving hassles once and for all. Are "burning Hassles" Melting Your Morale and pulverizing Your Productivity?Your organization may be experiencing "burning hassles" -- the sometimes hidden and sometimes obvious obstacles and sinkholes that keep people from performing ideally. This article explains how to recognize situations in which hassles may be dissolving productivity, morale, and profitability like corrosive acid. Getting Unstuck: Tips for Overcoming "decision Gridlock"Have you ever felt so stymied by your choices that every time you stared down at your "chessboard of life," you weren't sure where you could possibly make a move? Whether that feeling of being "stuck" relates to your business, personal matters, or both, it can serve to encumber your progress. This article discusses two patterns of "decision gridlock," and what to do about them. Turning Breakthroughs and Mishaps Into "best Practices"We can measure the success of our organizations to a large extent by how much we learn, absorb, and apply from experience. Such organizational learning can occur either intentionally or accidentally! This article offers tips on what to do with your breakthroughs and mishaps. The more data you can extract from them to create systems that everyone can follow, the more flexible, robust, and effective your organization will be.
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