Sorry this is late, folks. We’re working on an opera and everyone’s rushing around like mad things to keep it on timetable! Do you remember your childhood days in front of the TV after […]
Over at our curved vision site (were we offer bespoke presentation skills training) there’s an acute lack of videos; in fact there’s only one photo even, in the current incarnation of the website! There are […]
Okay, we know – what’s simple isn’t necessarily easy. After all, dieting is simple Eat less, exercise more but that doesn’t make it easy, I know. So with that caveat in mind I’m rather proud […]
I wrote recently about how much a presentation in a business actually costs. I didn’t include the soft costs of things like missed opportunities and damaged morale – even so it came to about two […]
I ran a training course today for a mixed bunch of engineers and salespeople for the European branch of an global engineering company. Not everyone wanted to be there (although everyone enjoyed it and no […]
No, that’s not a typo for “presentations are fun” (or even “presentations should be fun”), it’s then of some new software we’ve been playing with for a week or so from Presentation Fun. (I flagged […]
One of the things that has been bugging me recently is the use (and abuse) of images in slides. It seems that more and more people are recognising the need move away from bullet point […]
A long time ago (really a loooong time ago!) I was asked what my top tip for presenting was. Normally I shudder when I’m asked this kind of thing because – and I’ll say this […]
It’s a problem we see over and over as presentation skills trainers – the first thing someone does when they’re told they need to make a presentation is turn on their laptop, fire up PowerPoint […]
… or actually what they don’t see in presentations! A lot of our clients – when I ask them what they’re afraid of in terms of presentations – say that they’ll make mistakes their audience […]
Just a really quick blog… I’ve just come across http://www.pixelmator.com/ and I’m trying it out. So far, so (very!) good. The downside is that it’s just for Mac – that’s fine for us, we use Macs. The […]
I can’t remember where I read it, but I have a recollection of someone observing that well over half of drivers think they’re above average. I know I do. (I also have to admit, through […]
I’ve gone on and on in the past about how important your voice is as a presenter or public speaker. I’ve written books about it in fact. On our presentation skills training courses I sometimes […]