Full disclosure – I’m a presentations trainer, so you might expect me to not like templates… after all, if templates worked 100%, I’d have less work. Reason 1 You’re special. Oh, yes you are. Oh, […]
Posts Tagged: presenting
Hi. If you’re a regular reader here you’ll know how useful these posts can be. (And if you’re not, we hope you’ll soon be convinced! :) ) Would you like a whole lot more of […]
It’s Formula One season once more (and what a season!) and as always I’m stunned by the way the drivers stay calm under pressure. Make a mistake there and it’s all over – perhaps permanently. […]
Anyone who’s ever read even the most basic of tips-for-public-speaking will have read this simple tip… if you’re using PowerPoint (or anything similar such as Keynote) don’t face the screen; face your audience instead. It’s […]
I seem to be spending a lot of time working in academic institutions at the moment (see here, for example). Recently I did two half-day sessions at an FE college in my home region. Many […]
I’m writing this on my way back from a day’s training at Imperial College, in London. I spent some time working with PhD students looking with them at how they could make better oral conference […]
As a (strong) Introvert (in the sense that I get my emotional energy from inside my head), I’ve often been asked about the fact that I “do presentations for a living”. With a confused (or […]
I did a short interview recently for someone who ran a Toastmasters in Portugal and one of his questions got me to thinking about why people are afraid of public speaking: it’s not as if […]