It’s not unusual for us to get full marks from participants in our presentations training. We even got called “the best trainer I have ever encountered“ in one spontaneous email. My three favourite bits of […]
We’re all lazy – or at least our brains are. We all use mental shortcuts to save us having to work things out (heuristics). It’s why, for example, we tend to do the same things […]
Like the new title for the book? Presentation Genius. Far better, I think, than “The science of presenting”. Much snappier. I wish I could take credit, but it was the idea of Iain, my […]
I’ve done a lot of work in theatre, as a technician, as well as being a researcher and a presentation skills trainer. And one of the things you learn as a theatre tech is that […]
In the first two parts of this short series (wrapped up here) I looked at the importance of getting distance to give yourself objectivity, so you could figure out what your audience needed in part […]
After something of a hiatus in which we’ve had to move the blog hosting and a dozen other things (thanks 123-reg, for being pretty darn close to useless, and thank you to Babs Saul for […]
I’ve spent a lot of time working as a technician in theatres. People used to say how wonderful it was that I never needed to pay to see great shows. I used to reply that I […]
Presentations and public speaking doesn’t need a lot of kit – laptop and your brain are all you typically need… or at least that’s what you might think. Over the last ten years I’ve added […]
A while ago, I posted that the revolution is over, and that bullet point presentations were dead. I was, sadly, wrong. They just hid for a while, crawling under rocks, ready to spring out and […]
Okay, so you know we do presentation skills training, right? What you probably don’t know is our relatively strict policy on who we won’t train. Here you go… Politics, religion and so on We believe […]
In Critical Distance – part one I sketched out the idea that experts often make bad presenters because, well, because they’re experts… and all two often they’ve forgotten what it’s like not to be an […]
Over at “What She Said” my friend Lydia is blogging about her new project, here. She came up with the phrase in a conversation there (about copywriting): “Critical Distance”. I love it. In her terms […]
I didn’t start as a trainer and presenter. Oh no. Once upon a time I had a real job – I was a researcher at a university. My PhD looked at the environmental causes of […]