There’s a chapter in my next book (you didn’t know about Presentation Genius? sign up for updates at http://presentationgenius.launchrock.com to be kept up to date) about whether using music in your presentations is a good […]
I thought it might be a useful reflective practice for me to keep a diary of ‘the day’ of a presentation – and that might be interesting for anyone else… but when you read it, […]
One of the chapters of my next book (you didn’t know about it? sign up for updates at http://presentationgenius.launchrock.com) is all about fonts in presentations and which ones to use. I’ve spent forever reading up […]
This quick thought was captured while I was driving home from a presentation skills training day in the south of England… It’s not rocket science ;)
How do you know when you’ve made a good presentation? When it gets you a standing ovation? When nothing goes wrong? When people tell you that you’ve “done well”? That’s how most people do it, […]
Well done me. It’s done. Well, it isn’t of course, ‘cos there’s all the re-wriing and so on, but the first drafts of all the substantive chapters are complete… and now some of them are […]
It’s been quite a while since I updated you all on the progress of the book. I’m not even sorry, I’ve been too busy writing it! :) Let’s start with the basics before I […]
In colloquial parlance I’m an extravert. I have no difficulty working in groups, with people, in crowds or on stage. Heck, my job requires me to stand on stage in front of groups of strangers […]
A few times in the last few months I’ve been asked about ‘key phrases’ – and what brought it to mind today was this post about mental velcro: in it, the author talks about ways […]
Look, it’s not hard, is it?!? All you have to do is stand up in front of people tell them things. But just because it’s simple doesn’t mean it’s easy. After all, dieting is simple […]
Well, the contract has (finally) arrived. All half-a-tree-worth of it :) I guess I’ll get around to reading it soon… What else is new? Two changes to the software I’m using. Evernote: I […]
Well that’s a lie, they aren’t. They’re a lot of bloody hard work. I thought it might be fun to go through the timetable for a gig. This one is up in Scotland and it’s […]
In a recent blog I talked about the need to be clear at the very start of your presentation about any assumptions you were making, not just to avoid mis-understandings, but perhaps more importantly to mean you […]