I’ve given a number of presentations and training events recently in brightly lit rooms. The upside of this is that it’s harder for the audience to fall asleep and harder for them to ignore me: […]
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 […]
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 […]