I’ve been working alongside some other speakers and presenters recently, and after I’d finished my session, I offered one of them our equipment as a gesture of goodwill. I’d got everything there, after all, so […]
Yes, okay, it’s barely the summer and I’m talking about things that aren’t going to happen until the start of the Autumn but if I leave it until we’ve all had our holidays it’ll be […]
I’m an Apple fan. I’m not fanatical about it but overall I’m inclined to find their products better than the alternative. (Keynote blows PowerPoint out of the water, for example, for the vast majority of […]
Well it had to happen eventually. Andy Murray won the 2013 Men’s Singles Wimbledon final yesterday. And I guess it’s inevitable that everyone in the world will be blogging about that fact and twisting it […]
Over the past month and a bit I’ve written a number of articles on how to make the best use of your 60 seconds of fame at networking meetings… I’ve put them together with some […]
I’m after a bit of a favour in this week’s post. I’m trying to get a handle on what it is that bugs people most about making presentations, and if that varies by job etc. […]
I’m not as fixated on removing fillers as a lot of organisations. My experience is that a lot of not-very-talented presentation trainers tend to pick on obvious things like this because it looks like they’re […]
A couple of weeks ago I posted what turned out to be a pretty controversial blog called “What’s wrong with being a motivational speaker”. I thought it would be only fair to turn things around […]
Over a coffee with the fabulous Geoff Ramm (Marketing Speaker) and currently the president of the Professional Speaking Association, I got to thinking about the ways in which speakers and presenters use their equipment. And […]
Sentence Zero Sentence Zero is the sentence you don’t say! The first things you say when you’re nervous, in a high pressure situation tend to be the ones that make the first impression and yet, […]
My dictionary describes a skit as a form of short sketch which mocks or parodies. For us, however, a skit, is an elision of two words, one of which is fairly rude; skit is short […]
Well, who would have thought it’d last this long, eh? There’s nothing to say here: just a statement that it’s 400 tips since I started. Why would I publish a blog with no content? Because […]
Not long ago, I tweeted Presentation tip. If someone else can present using your slides, from cold, they’re bad slides! ;) It’s not the easiest tip to get your brain around, I admit, but for […]