I’m writing this while waiting to start work in a meeting room that’s cut in half by those concertina dividers so beloved of room managers. I can’t see what’s happening on the other side of […]
Posts By: Simon Raybould
She might be able to speak five languages and be the youngest ever candidate on “The Apprentice†but Ghazal can’t do the business presentation thing! Ghazal dried in mid-presentation in the second week: freezing mid-presentation […]
News! We’re just launching our advanced presentation skills training to the public. So far our only advanced courses have been in-house for our corporate clients but now we’ve decided to run them publicly too. It’s […]
And all about presenting too! It’s from Gillian Kerr and I agree with her basic point – define your objectives, define your audience (and make sure you speak to both their surface objectives and the […]
I’ve just spend a couple of minutes listening to one of those ‘fun’ articles on Radio Four’s Today programme about a webcam which is showing a cheese. The cheese isn’t doing anything except sitting there, […]
Well, for me at least, the good is that they make you sound interesting (all other things being equal of course, which they never are!). I remember reading some research (which I can’t find to […]
In my last post I rambled on about clichés in your presentation. Someone asked me about spotting them on their slides and I’m afraid my response wasn’t all together sympathetic. Why? Because a good slide […]
There’s a joke my kids are fond of telling about not wanting to read Shakespeare (or the Bible). When challenged, they grin and say that Shakespeare is too unoriginal – almost everything he says is […]
well, I don’t think so anyway. In the same way as a headache is not a migraine and a cold is not flu. What’s more, performance anxiety is perfectly normal, natural and a good thing […]
I’ve just found this blog post about public speaking: I’d comment there, but I can’t find a way of being allowed to add a comment (which I thought was one of the key reasons for […]
I’ve just been doing some web-research for videos of good (or even excellent) presentations. Sadly they’re few and far between. In the process I came across this page which has a collection of vids you […]
One of the biggest reasons people book themselves onto our presentation skills courses is their fear of presenting – there are lots of techniques we cover on these days, but some of them need a […]
Well, it’s taken us a while to get our act together, but we’re finally ready to go public with Better Wedding Speeches. It’s a new project, designed not to help people making business presentations but […]