“Tell stories and make a point”: that mantra pretty much sums up a huge range of useful stuff about how to make presentations. We’ll talk in a moment about why that’s useful but take a […]
These hints and tips are all very well but may just blow my own trumpet for a moment? I’m just updating the website for our presentation tips ebook called “…like a brick wrapped in velvet…” […]
I know that opera doesn’t have much to do with (business) presentations but it seemed appropriate to just say something to acknowledge the death of Luciano Pavarotti this week. He made it sound simple. As […]
No, I didn’t know either, but online mag Wired has a fantastic (in all senses of the word!) article about presentations for/by architects in Japan where the rules for the presentations are simple: 20 slides […]
It’s a cliche, I know but there’s truth in it anyway, any performance – which includes presentations, of course – should have the swan thing going on. I don’t care how hard you’re working underneath […]
So what’s the difference? Well, according to at least one online dictionary claptrap is ” Pretentious, insincere, or empty language” where as a Clap Trap is a trick used to generate applause: it’s an old […]
Of course, I’m very flattered, but….. just here it appears that Amazon.co.uk are selling second hand copies of my voice book for up to £114! Brand new from me it’s only £8.50 (+p&p but I’ll […]
We live in a high stress society. To prove it, drop your shoulders: if you can drop them, you’ve probably got a bit of a tension issue – unless you’re in a situation that justifies […]
First things first – what is congruence? In short, it’s where things all line up in the same direction to support each other. (I’m not using the maths definitions here, obviously!) They don’t have to […]
Yesterday was the last of our public presentation skills training courses before the summer and we were working with our usual mix of introverts and extraverts. The latter are easier to present to because their […]
We’ve all heard the phrase ‘content is king’ and I’d agree. Presentations shouldn’t be noticed – they’re there to get the content over, not to be an end in themselves. (That doesn’t mean they shouldn’t […]
We’ve had a bit of a waiting list that we’ve not quite cleared before the summer so we’re sneaking in an extra day’s presentation skills training course in Newcastle on Jul 23rd. Because we’re running […]
….as at half-past three on a rainy Monday at least… Actually this post is based upon an on-the-spot interview I did for my local newspaper. I’ve edited here for sense but Andrew Mernon’s original is […]