You can get the full details at the bbc here but the gist of the story is that the Professional Associate of Teachers has said that “the care and the use of the voice should […]
Tim’s excellent Mother Tongue Annoyances blog had a recent article about how to get rid of the bane of the nervous presenter – umm and err. The idea behind his article – and many of […]
It’s mine, I tell you, mine! Okay, I’m happy for anyone out there to use this material but I’m not sooooo happy about it being claimed as anyone else’s work but me. Apart from the […]
Setting aside for a minute the old claims that speaking in public is the greatest fear of the greatest number of people it’s certainly true that for a significant number of people it’s a difficult […]
I’m stunned I need to give this tip but I was a networking meeting recently when one of the speakers’ computer “hung”. He promptly failed the “Fuse Test” (can you make a presentation without technology […]
I’m a great fan of the presentation blog run by Garr Reynolds called Presentation Zen: I like the idea that presentations should be clean and simple and should not so much “not get in the […]
….or to put it another way, if you can’t talk to people on the phone, how are you going to present yourself to them? Okay, not every situation involves the phone but lots of them […]
It’s old news that you shouldn’t open Email attachments you weren’t expecting from people you don’t know. I have tech-head friends who won’t even try and fix your computer if you do because, in their […]
PowerPoint is a great tool – sometimes. But it can also be the worst tool in the world. When I teach people how to use it in their presentations, I often liken it to playing […]
One of the ups and downs of what I do – training people to make better presentations and use their voice properly – is that I tend to listen out for the way other people […]
Not a business presentation skills tip this post, but one about “voice” – though they’re related, as you’ll see. I’m just back from Scotland – sunny Scotland, much to my surprise, despite the rainclouds which […]
I don’t know about where you are, but I’m sitting in the garden at 24 degrees as I write this. The forecast is for this to continue through the week. Great – except that in […]
There’s an (old) article here that suggests it is! (It’s just a shame that I couldn’t comment on the article on the original site :( ) Despite seeing the carnage of death by PowerPoint so […]