I’ve come across this advice about making presentations in quite a few places over the years, and while it sounds good, it’s somewhat limited (and occasionally even just plain wrong). I know it’s usually meant […]
Posts By: Simon Raybould
Here’s a really (and I mean really) simple tip for helping with your PowerPoint presentations. Take the damned words out! Leave only the barest of essentials. Why? Because it increases your audience’s ability to do […]
Presentation skills trainers make a lot of fuss made about the ‘fact’ that only “7% of communication lies in the words†we use. The rest is split between the way you say it and the […]
We’ve just finished GCSEs in our house. Of the whole family, there’s only one of us who was sitting the exams, but we were all nervous! Some of us have more reason than others: unfortunately, […]
Following on from a presentation I’ve just given at ITWORKS2006 I took a stroll around the stands. I walked around for nearly 30 minutes and only one person spoke to me (and she was a […]
As a voice & presentation skills trainer there’s a big news story around at the moment – Bill Gates is stepping down from Microsoft. It’ll be interesting to see what happens to his software design. […]
The beginning of things is a fine time to get things right. So it is with buildings, plans, articles and – more importantly – blogs. I’m going to be writing about communicating with people in […]