…….because that’s her initial. I’ve been working with H for a couple of months now, seeing her once every couple of weeks for a reasonable length session and she’s very happy with the progress we’ve […]
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… but this time it is one of mine! Our regional paper runs a brief “how to” article by yours truly, here.
Patsy Rodenburg knows a thing or two about having ‘it’ – whatever ‘it’ is. She’s the Director of Voice at London’s Royal National Theatre and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. In short, she […]
It seems a bit of a cop-out in writing a presentation skills blog to do nothing other than point you to another blog, but what the hell, this one deserves an honourable mention. It’s not […]
A lot of presentation skills trainers will tell you that you should be able to control your nerves and ‘overcome’ them. Personally, I think that’s rubbish and what you should do is ‘use’ them. Why? […]
OMG. With the best will in the world, I can’t see this as an overall good thing. At it’s best, PowerPoint is a fair-to-middling tool, woefully often mis-used, and giving people more gadgets is going […]
I’ve sat through some drivel, recently. Some of it was witty and entertaining at the time, but still drivel. Why? Because it didn’t tell me anything I wanted to know. I’m sure this scenario is […]
Someone asked me recently for a simple formula for structuring their presentation. Now, I’m always hesitant about giving out simple formulae – because they’re generally over-simple and don’t take into account the circumstances of the […]
I’ve never heard of this before, but I read here that eating bananas wil help deal with presentation nerves. I can’t for the life of me figure why it might work, but if it does, […]
Regular readers will know I’m not a fan of PowerPoint for two reasons. It’s often badly used; and It’s designed in a way to make it too easy to use it badly. I know I’m […]
A friend of mine sent me this link:Â http://youtube.com/watch?v=7-ZnPE3G_YY today. It’s very mildly offensive but if you can cope with a someone taking the mickey out of Songs of Praise, have watch/listen. What it shows, […]
“How do I deal with the nerves?†– the most common question I get on our public courses. Everywhere I go on the web there’s a list of presentation tips: one of the most common […]
I’ve given a number of presentations and training events recently in brightly lit rooms. The upside of this is that it’s harder for the audience to fall asleep and harder for them to ignore me: […]