You know the ads, I’m sure: “Just Do It“. Just like in sport that’s a two edged sword for presenters. On the upside it means that people are encouraged to stop prevaricating and actually have […]
Over at Blokes on the Blog, a site where I write occasional pieces, I’m thinking out loud about differences in gender for audiences and what allowance should be made for that by presenters. See what […]
For some years I worked as a Theatre Director, covering ground from plays that no one had heard of; to massively popular stuff such as Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musicals; to Shakespeare. As anyone who has […]
Well it’s been a while! It’s been a long, long while, because between me and my ISP having some very, very odd practices (and downtime of their own servers.. and a failure to restore FTP […]
Rule four is simple: Do The Swan Thing You’ll hear trainers say things like “never let the audience see you sweat” which is the same sentiment but for me, at least, it’s a bit limiting. […]
Some things are more important than others Top of the List Of Important Things is your message, not you. You’re not that important, deal with it. Swallow your pride and learn the next of Raybould’s […]
To quote The Bible (Matthew 7:12 to be specific): ‘Do unto others as you would have them do to you‘. Â It’s a great rule for life, let alone presentations. It never ceases to amaze me […]
I was inspired by a tweet from the lovely Nancy Duarte recently when she cited her first rule of presenting: never give a presentation you wouldn’t want to sit through. Fair enough. It’s a good […]
An old client of mine sent me this (so thanks to Don at Dell!) – it’s a current posting on the Forbes website in which Venture Capitalist Vinod Khosla’s five second rule for testing a […]
Bit of a rant about some bad presenters I’ve seen recently…..! Â :) Â Â Brace yourself, gentle reader. ____________________________________________________________ I drive a car, and (like most people, impossibly) I think I’m a better than average driver. […]
Errrmmmm… that’s it really. Â Nothing more to add. Good slides make bad handouts… there’s just not enough detail on them. Â What we do is create a bespoke document to use as the handout which may […]
Rant mode on. It’s not rocket science folks – seriously. I’ve just had to sit through a 30 minute presentation (promised duration, 15 minutes!) that had the worst slides I’ve seen in a long time. […]
A friend of mine, Suze StMaur, has just blogged about the ways in which women can be (should be?) better presenters than men. See here: http://howtowritebetter.net/how-women-can-be-better-than-men-at-public-speaking/ Have a look at what Suze’s suggested – see […]