I can’t begin to think of the number of times I’ve worked with would-be presenters and they’ve told me how they ‘design’ their presentations – and it goes like this: I sit down and think […]
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Some of you will know that I occasionally blog about making presentations in other places too. There’s a short, fun piece about last minute checklists for presenters at “blokes on the blog”: http://www.blokesontheblog.co.uk/checking-time/ Other people […]
I’m talking here, about copying slides from one slidedeck to another, be that in PowerPoint, Keynote or anything else. Â And obviously I don’t mean that you should never, ever do it, but I’d urge you […]
At last! Â Some useful presentation skills stuff t odo with body language which isn’t the (painfully) oversimplified stuff like “If your audience does X, they’re thinking Y” or “”If you want your audience to think […]
If I’m not careful this will turn into a rant about people who are reading in church but who don’t rehearse. It’s not, of course, a problem limited to Bible-readers, but let me use one […]
A while ago I had the chance to do a two hour workshop for dance students at Gateshead College – and loved it. Â The slide deck I used was obviously designed for the day and […]
This might be the shortest book review ever: the book’s called “Resonate†– and it does. Anything else I say or add is just detail tinkering around the edges. Nancy Duarte describes Resonate as a […]
Not long ago, I suggested to Geeks who found themselves in the role of presenter could try shifting their thinking a little. :) Â The gist of what I was saying was to move from thinking […]
I’m not talking about picking a fight here, I’m talking about making a presentation. I’ve lost count of the number of times that I’ve read well intentioned advice to would-be presenters, online, saying that you […]
The world is binary for geeks, full of computer-based 1s and 0s. And in the real world too, there’s a modicum of binary-ness too. The world is full of people who care very much indeed […]
Long time readers will know that for a long time we’ve been running in-house training for companies and organisations and public training for individuals. Â Well now we’re going to create a half-way house…. a public […]
I’ve heard a lot of fuss and hype around some presentation software called prezi. Â It’s an alternative to Keynote and Powerpoint, in that it’s designed to create the visual aids (aka a slideshow) that goes […]
It seems to be more and more common (to me, at least) to turn the normal-but-unwanted-and-perhaps-a-bit-unusual into a clinical condition. Â People aren’t short tempered any more, they’re suffering from Temper Restraint Disorder Syndrome; okay, I […]