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About Editable Maps

An editable map is one that you can edit with colors, text, lines, shades and so forth. You can customize it to meet your needs. There are many sites offering such maps. You can buy or download any type of map you need – US map, state map, world map, country map, etc. They come in a variety of formats including PowerPoint, Adobe Illustrator, Flash and other formats.

Applications

Editable maps are valuable for marketing and sales presentation. They are perfect for highlighting territories, pointing locations and directions, replacing data tables, summarizing information, and for other purposes. Depending on your needs you might use a world map broken down into countries, countries’ maps broken down into states, states’ maps broken down into counties.

They can also be used in your company reports, brochures, newsletters, magazines, bulletins, in other written applications.

Professional Presentations

When you need your business presentation to be outstanding an editable map can help you to do so and clarify your message.

Well-designed map will add a sense of professionalism to your presentations. Illustrative information is perceived much better than the textual one. Therefore using editable maps means enhancing the power of your presentations through visually appealing objects. Your audience will better understand you when they are able to view an illustrative map. Moreover, people like looking on the maps.  

And if you are not a good speaker you can make it up with your excellent presentation slides.

When Mum opens her Christmas present this year, you want to take her breath away… not because the gift is so bad, but because it’s oh so good. But “what can I get my Mum for Christmas?” you scream. You’ve gone down the toiletries route. Exhausted the perfume and got her just about every bleedin’ cookery book under the sun. Settle down. Chill out. Put your feet up, (or maybe make yourself a nice cuppa first!). Done that? Okay. Now relax, and cast your eyes over this article. May the peace be with you, folks.

Let’s face it. Mum’s the busiest person in the family when the Christmas festivities kick off in your home, if my own Mum’s anything to go by. She’s normally in a world of her own cleaning, making decorations, Christmas food shopping, and almost every other job you can think of during the festive season.

Despite slaving away, she rarely forgets to buy pressies for each and every member of my family. And I can safely say she’s always – apart from the year she bought me an onion cutter – made the right gift choice for me. She just seems to know. I don’t know how, she just does.

So don’t you feel your Christmas present for Mum should be special too? It’s your responsibility to choose a gift that not only oozes practicality, but also pizzazz. That is to say if you love your dear, doting mummy. Smiley face.

Below are some Christmas present ideas for mum she’d surely love to receive…

5. Personalised Spoof Newspaper. You can now get your mitts on newspapers all about her. Up for grabs are newspaper headlines like: “Best Mum” and “Sexiest Woman Alive” to name but a few. If you think that your Ma’s the bee’s knees, what better way to tell her?

4. Personalised Booze. Has she got a soft spot for wine? Or is she partial to a bit a’ bubbly? From Rosé wine to Champagne, personalised booze will tickle her taste buds as much as it will her emotions, since the bottle label features her name and your personal message. Just make your message a nice one!

3. Personalised chocolate. We’re not talking Ferrero Rochers or a box of Tesco’s finest Belgian choccies. As yummy as they are, they wouldn’t be appreciated half as much as a bar of chocolate, printed with her name and a special message. You can get Christmassy themed chocolate bars, not to mention sumptuous boxes of handmade truffles specially chosen by you. Mmmmm.

2. Engraved compact mirrors. Every Mum likes to check her appearance from time to time, whether it’s to put on her face powder, lippie, or to make sure her mascara hasn’t smudged. It’s a known fact. A handbag mirror is a MUST-HAVE accessory for any Mum and will save her those dreadful lipstick-on-teeth moments, not to mention the eyelash-in-eye episodes. But the difference is personalised mirrors can be engraved with her name, date or message on the lid, adding even more “ooh la la” to it.

1. Pamper Hampers. Most Mums love to be pampered. And what better way to indulge her this Christmas than by bestowing her with a gorgeous beauty hamper, laden with gifts to invigorate her senses and excite the palate? From scented candles and deliciously aromatic soaps to moisturising body lotions and sparkling Rosé wine, these gifts will spoil her from top to toe! Just run a bath and let the hamper do the rest.

So you see? Seeking out Mum Christmas presents isn’t nearly as tricky as you initially suspected. Just keep it pretty. Keep it practical. But most of all, keep it personal. Voila.

It is a dilemma on the part of businessmen on how they could expand and flourish their business especially that today the world is facing a major crisis. They need to open up new ideas, make good presentations and great deals to other top companies and businessmen as well. It is really a challenge for them as to how they will introduce their products well and as to how they could gain the trust of the company.

In a business, you need to take some risks and learn to sacrifice. Not all individuals have succeeded in this field. There are some who went down after facing several problems in the company, some went down for the reason that they could no longer meet the demands of the people and some failed for the reason that they have plenty of competition. It is really up to them as to how they will deal with all of the pressures and challenges they will meet. If they know how to handle things well, then there is a great chance of keeping their business or their company smooth sailing.

In order for the business to grow and to succeed, businessmen should know how to effectively win the hearts of the prospective business partners just like how the developers of cheetah stun gun built the device to impress people. They should have the right and proper business skills that way they can impress would be partners. Another thing that could add up more plus points is how they have presented their business. This really matters since it is where the business is being introduced and where they base their evaluation as to they will accept your offer or not. Here are just few tips in order for you to fully persuade your clients to buy your product.

Before anything else, you need to practice first your presentation skills. You can try this out to your friends or perhaps colleagues. This is a good idea that way you can practice how to deal with the audience and also for your friends to give a critic with regards to your movements and manner of talking. You may even take a short glimpse at the podium or the presentation area that way you can feel all the vibrations, practice your movements and get to know the area.

You also need to check the equipments as well like projectors or perhaps the LCD, sound system and other important equipments. Test them first so you can determine if there is a need for a back-up. If possible, charge your laptop and other helpful visual aids that way it will all be prepared the next day just like how you need to recharge rechargeable stun guns when it loses battery life.

Be yourself is mostly important. Keep calmed even though there is already intense pressure. It is the only possible way wherein you can say all the things in your mind effectively. If you let your nervousness come in first, the results are you would not be able to present your business well. Challenge your audience through making the presentation conversational. Let them give questions and allow the audience to interact.

Lastly, make sure that you know your topic well. Study the slides, study what you will say so when questions will arise, you will know what to answer. Remember that first impression always will last. Give the audience a positive impression. There is no such thing as perfect but at least you aimed for achieving perfection.

A good presentation always begins with the self. The rest will follow once the individual feels good about himself during the presentation. It is also important to be optimistic even though the chance of getting your business accepted is on a fifty-fifty basis. Accept downfalls and improve yourself and your business that way it will rise up again.

If you want to improve your presentation skills in any situation, you need to discover the power of unconscious communication.

Most people fail to get their message across – whether it is one-to-one or with an audience of thousands – because they focus on the ‘conscious’ aspects of communication and pack in too much information and detail.

The truth is almost all successful communication happens at an unconscious level. This means people are forming opinions about what you say without really knowing the reason why.

So if you know how to make your communication work unconsciously, you have more chance of getting your message across effectively.

Here are five ways in which you can improve your communication by influencing the unconscious mind.

Speed: People usually make up their minds about something unconsciously within 2 – 6 seconds. The book Blink by Michael Gerber covers this in great detail. So you only have a few brief moments in which to make the right impression. With the right communication skills, you can help them come to the right conclusion quickly.

Simplicity: Although our culture appears to value a lot of information. You need to have a very clear and simple message if you want it to be remembered. Often the hardest task in preparing a presentation is deciding what to leave out so that your message can be focused.

Specificity: The unconscious mind deals in specific information so you need to choose your words with care – for example it’s important to be very careful when using negative words such as ‘not’ and ‘don’t’ as the effect may be the opposite of what you intend. You can engage the unconscious mind by providing very specific details that make someone feel as though the situation is real.

Stories: Telling stories is one of the most powerful forms of communication as, used properly, they can help to overcome resistance and skepticism. Stories can serve different purposes, ranging from making people feel good to imagining themselves in a particular situation. Planned use of stories can make your presentation very effective.

Stir emotions: The unconscious mind is the domain of the emotions so the most successful communication will appeal to emotions. You need to make people care about something if you want them to take action.

The most effective communication will hit on all those hot buttons so that you get the results that you want.

I am often asked what staying in the present means and for me it is that the athlete is so focussed on what they want to do that their mind does not wander to any thoughts of past or future. As a human being you spend a great deal of time mentally flitting from the present to the past and to the future in any number of combinations and frequencies.

The main concern of not being in the present is that the athlete allows their mind to go back in time and relive (re-think about) past poor performance and negative events, thus lowering their confidence and ability to perform. Example: “I’ve missed a couple short putts today, I hope I don’t miss this one too!” Equally bad is allowing the mind to wander forward into the future and imagine either playing badly, or the consequences if they do play poorly. Example: “If I miss this putt then he wins the hole and match and I’ve lost the club championship!”

So the description of staying in the present is simple. Be so completely absorbed in the moment that there is no room for any past or future thinking interference but a simple explanation does not mean it’s simple to do. Far from it unless you are a Zen Master.

The problem is that we are human and our minds are prone to warn us of possible problems and while warning us to “Watch out! Don’t slice it here!” is fairly normal function, it’s very unhelpful when we are trying to stay calm, confident and in the zone.

I say warning us is normal function because it is our own natural protection system in action. You wouldn’t want your brain forgetting to warn you about stepping in front of a bus! The danger of a bad shot can bring humiliation, disappointment and anger so your mind will warn you against doing anything that risks a negative event, especially something that might be humiliating. Humans fear humiliation worse than death in many cases so it’s a powerful trigger for warnings!

In addition, golf is one of those sports where we have enormous amounts of time and opportunity to “get thinking.” In fast paced sports you really have to just react as the game is very dynamic which means there is less time to think about negative past performance or possible bad future “what if’s?”

All sports have time somewhere to allow thinking to wander but golf is also a game where the ball is always static when it is played so our thoughts can wander negatively virtually all the time. A sport like tennis allows thoughts to wander between points but at least while you are absorbed in playing the point the mind is very occupied and focussed with just playing.

Snooker and Pool games also require mental control while playing the shot and Darts would be another. Basically the faster paced the game, the less opportunity for the mind to wander out of the present at the crucial time just as the ball (or other object such as a puck) is played.

Developing deep focus in order to control your thoughts and keep them zeroed in on a specific thing is ultimately a learnable skill and a technique called “anchoring” from the field of NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) is very effective at triggering you into states of control.

While I do believe that you can develop deeper and deeper focus, I don’t think anyone will ever master it completely although meditation experts, such as Buddhist monks come very close. They have however spent years developing the ability to stay completely in the present.

I think the answer for most of us is to develop a really solid pre-shot routine and back it up with anchoring techniques and daily visualisation of the state you want to lock into every time you enter your pre-shot routine. You can also use “picking a club” from your bag as the start point for deep focus and certainly visualising yourself full of confidence and deep focus (In The Zone) every time you step onto a T would be a great idea.

Humans easily forget. Every day they go through the various activities that make them forget what they have heard. The same thing applies when you give a presentation. Audiences will soon forget the materials you have presented. So how can you make a presentation to be remembered by the audience?

It is known that someone’s attention span when listening is very limited. He can not recall all the information that he has listened. Even, listening can not be started again.

Indeed, spoken information is different from written information. If there is anything missing, you can easily repeat the previous page. But, when listening to a presentation, what has been conveyed has passed. If there is something that is less obvious, you can ask on the question and answer session. However there is one exception that is, if the presenter repeats to the audience.

Based on an observation, human’s attention tends to focus at the beginning and the end of a conversation. This applies to almost everything from listening to lectures, listening to presentations, learning in the classroom, watching movies or any activities.

That is why, you will easily tell the beginning and end of a movie but will get difficulty to explain the middle. You can still remember the moment details that happened at the beginning and end, but you will find difficulty to tell the same details that occurred in the middle of the storyline. The same thing applies when you listen to a presentation. The beginning and end are usually still well remembered, while the middle part has been forgotten.

If you experience something like that, then your listeners feel the same. Therefore, doing repetition is a simple way to make your audience remember what you have presented. This will make your presentation give strong impact because the audience will remember it well, from beginning to end.

Repetition principle

In the world of communications, you will know a very simple principle of repetition. This principle consists of three steps:

1. Tell the audiences what you are going to tell (tell them what would you explain to the next slide)

2. Tell them (explain the core of these slides)

3. Tell them what you have told (give a summary of the points you have just conveyed).

When we are presented with the opportunity to give a speech to a business audience, a lot of different things start to run through our heads. Unfortunately, not all of these thoughts are ones that will help us to create a good speech. I’ve got 3 questions that you need to ask yourself when you start to prepare your next presentation…

3 Questions To Ask Before You Start To Create Your Next Speech

Despite the importance of public speaking, it’s very easy to create and deliver a speech that ends up having no impact on your audience. All too often this happens because we create a speech that we’d like to hear, not one that our audience would like to hear.

If we want to make sure that this doesn’t happen, we need to take action before we start to create our next presentation. Presentation tips won’t solve this problem. Just sitting down and hoping that we’ll get it right won’t do the trick. Instead, we need to ask the right questions before we start.

One question we need to ask ourselves is what the topic or subject is that we’ll be reporting on to our business audience. As simple as this question sounds, it’s actually critical to our ability to create a deliver an effective presentation. If you don’t completely understand what your subject is, then your presentation is going to go off course. You’ll end up talking about things that have no meaning to your audience and that won’t help anyone.

Next, you need to determine why your topic is important to your audience. The people who will be in your audience are busy people who have other things that they could be doing or other places that they could be. You need to make sure that you understand why they are sitting there waiting for you to give your speech or they won’t use their listening skills to get anything out of your speech. What is it that they hope to learn from your presentation? If you know this, then you are that much closer to being able to give your audience what they want.

Finally, there is no way that you can cover everything in your speech. That means that you need to spend some time and think about what your audience’s questions will be. Once you know this, then you’ll be able to work answers to their most pressing questions into your speech and you’ll be providing them with the answers they want without them having to ask the question.

What All Of This Means For You

Presentations to a business audience are a tricky thing to get right. Our audience has high expectations for what we are going to tell them, otherwise they would be somewhere else. Not to put any pressure on you, but you had better get this speech right and show your audience what the benefits of public speaking are.

In order to create and deliver an effective business presentation, you need to answer three questions before you start. The first is what is the subject of your presentation going to be? The next is why is your topic important to your audience. Finally, you need to anticipate what questions your audience will have and make sure that you work those answers into your speech.

It is possible to deliver an effective business presentation. However, you need to take the time to collect information about your audience before you sit down to create your presentation. Do this, and your next business presentation will be the best one that your audience has ever heard.

Public speaking and presentation ability is a skill that anybody can learn. Even if you think you have no “natural talent,” you may be surprised how quickly you can master it, given some good presentation skill training and enough practice.

There are many different options, but whichever route you take, you can expect to learn:

o How to speak in public effectively.
o How to deliver successful business presentations.
o How to improve and perfect sales pitches.
o How to become a professional public speaker.

With this learning process comes increased confidence and usually success of some kind.

A good speech

Good speeches take work.

You will be taught everything there is to know about creating and presenting a speech. For example, you will learn that the three essential parts that make up an effective presentation of any sort are:

1. The structure of the speech, including both the introduction and ending.
2. The content or meat of the speech.
3. The delivery, which is how you present the speech to your audience.

But that is the easy part. What effective training will also teach you is how to implement these elements so that they work for you. It will help you organize and structure your thoughts and arrange them in a meaningful and constructive way, so that you are able to open with impact and close on a good, high point that will be memorable. In essence, it will teach you how to be a powerful and successful communicator.

So you are scared? Don’t let that worry you too much. Most people are nervous when they do their first public speaking assignment. It can be scary stuff. But with some basic training and a whole lot of practice it gets better and better.

The audience

You might think that it’s because you are afraid you’ll forget what you want to say, or because you’ll break out in a rash or start coughing. No, that’s only the effect of your fear. The cause of this fear–whether conscious or subconscious–is probably your preoccupation with that sea of faces out there starting at you. So the first thing to acknowledge is your audience. If you can learn to accept them as like minded individuals interested in what you have to say, you’ll start feeling a lot more relaxed about talking to them.

Armed with good presentation skills you will find that wobbly knees and shaking hands become a thing of the past. These skills will also help you to connect with your audience, emotionally and intellectually. They will enable you to ensure that every speech is relevant to the audience you will be addressing and help you to personalize every single presentation.

The importance of a good presentation

A good presentation will be memorable. But a bad presentation may be even more memorable!

Whether you are speaking to a bunch of homemakers at a charity lunch, or pitching to prospective clients about your up-and-coming business, a good presentation is what will get the message across. That’s what effective public speaking is all about. A bad presentation may lose sales, credibility, and the opportunity to make the impression you really want.

Just remember that you CAN learn to master good speaking and presentation skills. And when you do, you’ll reap the rewards personally and professionally for years to come.

Ever since Eckhart Tolle’s book ‘The Power Of Now’ came out, being present has consumed the self help industry. And even people who were not into self development came across this book.

Interpretation

And whether it is a teacher speaking about being present or whether they are talking about how to make a cake, there is always going to be people’s interpretations of what something means.

These interpretations can be accurate and match up to what is being communicated or they can be completely inaccurate and have nothing to do with what is being communicated. The present moment is all there is and when one is not present then they are out of touch with the only moment that matters.

So although it is clear that being present is the ideal, it is not always easy to be present. At times, it can seem impossible and nothing more than a good idea.

And as it can be so difficult it can result in someone denying how they really feel or what they are thinking and all because they want to be present.

Repression

Being present then becomes a new name for denial and repressing how one truly feels. At first, this may seem like a great idea and one that may work for a short period of time.

Just like a new toy that a child receives from their caregivers; in the beginning their attention is consumed and then shortly after, it is thrown away just like the rest of the toys. The Child’s short attention span is still there and is not going anywhere; no matter how many toys are given.

And the same applies to emotions, feelings and thoughts. If they are denied and covered up, it is unlikely to lead to one being present. They will just come back, but when they do, they may be even stronger.

Thoughts

The primary focus when it comes to self development and change is often ones thoughts. And these are often said to be the biggest challenge in one being present. So when the mind settles down, one can then experience a greater sense of peace and harmony within.

So from this point of view the mind is the only thing that matters and the body is therefore irrelevant. But if one were to become aware of their thoughts, they would often see that they are nothing more than a consequence of how they are feeling in their body.

The Body

Feelings and emotions are in the body and based on these, the mind responds accordingly. When these are unpleasant feelings and emotions, it is normal for the mind to become obsessed and to endlessly think about certain things. And these thoughts can be positive or negative.

This is a defence mechanism that the mind uses to regulate pain and to ensure its own survival. For if there was too much pain it could be overwhelming and lead to death.

So the minds thoughts are a way to calm everything down and to avoid the pain that is coming up from the body.

The Present Moment

It may sound like the right thing to do to let go off ones thoughts, but these thoughts are often only appearing as a result of what is going on in the body. When the body is at a place of peace, the mind is likely follow suit.

And due to the pain that can build up in the body, it can cause someone to reject their body and to live in their head. This is done because it can feel safer than living in a body that is full of pain.

A lot of focus has been placed on thoughts over the years and this has resulted in the body’s power being rejected. And yet the body is where ones power really is and where the answers are found.

Trapped Emotions

So if one lives in their head due to what has built up in their body, there is likely to be a lot of trapped emotions and feelings. When the body is at peace, the mind can relax. But when the body is in pain, the mind is going to end up thinking excessively.

These can be emotions and feelings that have become trapped as a result of what has happened to someone as an adult and what took place during their childhood years.

This can include the following feelings and emotions: rejection, abandonment, betrayal, grief, fear, rage, resentment, anger, helplessness, hopelessness, shame, guilt and fear.

And just because they are trapped in the body, it doesn’t mean that they are not having an effect on one’s life. They are constantly looking to be heard in one way or another.

Letting Go

When one is present and in the moment, they are likely to be free of fear and other restrictive emotions. But if these feelings and emotions are trapped in the body, it is going to be practically impossible to be present.

And this is why it is important to let go of what has built up in the body. When this happens, being present will not be a struggle or something that involves force. It will be something that naturally takes place and all because there is peace in the body.

Awareness

In many ways, the mind is simply a reflection of what is going on in the body. So getting in touch with ones feelings and emotions and releasing them is very important.

This can be done with the assistance of a therapist or a healer that will allow one to face them and release them.

So what makes a good presentation? Personality? Fantastic design? A good delivery? All of these are part of it and more. In this article we’ll take a brief look at a 5 step approach to assembling and delivering a presentation.

What is a presentation?

A presentation is a way of communicating information. A presentation is really a path for the audience through a chosen topic with signposts added so that they can follow you to the end point. You can’t really do this if you are not entirely sure where you are going. It has a starting point and you hope or expect the audience to be there at the end of it and to have leant something from it.

Step 1 What’s the plan?

As self-evident as this is, presenters can often overlook this especially if they’ve used a presentation a number of times. The plan may just involve reviewing what you are going to say and which slides you want to use. What should you leave out or rewrite? You could consider creating a design plan or storyboard of how the presentation will work. Most important of all decide what key points you want to get across.

Step 2 Who is my audience?

Whatever you want to say you need to consider the audience. Audiences range for the very general to the extremely knowledgeable. As such they will view presentation information differently. Who they are is as important as what you want to tell them and how you tell them.

Step 3 What’s on The Page?

We’ve all met that death by PowerPoint moment where each subsequent slide is filled with evermore text and yet more key points. Less is certainly more.

- Add some colours.

- Use graphics if you think they more clearly explain than text.

- Use short sentences.

- Ideally there should really be no more than three points to each slide.

The net effect is that an audience with less to concentrate on may also get more from the information. There is also a lower risk of information overload and sleep in a warm dark room. Always try to get someone to preview your presentation.

Step 4 Bells and Whistles

Microsoft Powerpoint has a wide range of tools that can make your presentation better. Do not be tempted to use every one of them. Using transitions between slides is a very nice effect as is the animation of bullet point and bullet point texts by controlling how they appear.

- Using multiple transition types as well as too much animation can be very distracting.

- Use multimedia material like video and sound if they add to the presentation and help get your message across. Don’t use them for the sake of it.

Remember each slide is an aid to your presentation and not the presentation. You are the presenter and your presentation is designed to help you get your message across.

Step 5 Practise, Practise, Practise

Nothing spoils a presentation more than a presenter who seems ill-prepared and who doesn’t seem to know what’s in the presentation. A printout can be useful to have to hand but more importantly thorough review and practice is what will help it far more.

We don’t become good presenters overnight but combining the right level of detail, thinking of our audience and trying to get it right on the day is a good start.