It is the stuff of nightmares, isn’t it? You spend ages perfecting a PowerPoint presentation, you rehearse with said presentation, you check you have the wires for the all the equipment, pitch up at the venue and find out that the projector bulb is broken! Argh! Or is it? First of all let me say […]
If you are presenting to a group and your purpose to affect some sort of change (and if that is not the purpose, then why are you speaking to them in the first place?), then there are really only three questions they are asking. Why should I be influenced by YOU? I may need your […]
Someone asked me today whether I could present on any topic given sufficient research. My immediate response was ‘maybe!’ But then I went and thought more carefully about my answer. In my coaching and training I often work with individuals with the structure and language of their presentations. And sometimes they will laugh and say […]
When people share with me that they are frightened of presenting and speaking in public it often boils down to one of two reasons: They don’t know what to say or how to say it or Faulty thinking… I have written many many blogs on the ‘what to say and how to say it’ (and […]
I wonder why people hate rehearsal so much? Perhaps it is the agony of having to speak in front of someone else (usually someone you know well – the spouse or partner, the member of staff) Maybe it is the lack of time? Maybe it is the desire to get it all perfect before you […]
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Feedback is useless…
Could you present on anything?
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