Well there are plenty of great lessons to learn about speaking and inspiring from Jesus Christ ( and maybe that is another blog) but in this blog I am focusing an altogether less spiritual man, Jeremy Clarkson. Now first a confession. I get quite a lot of exposure to Jeremy Clarkson in my household. With […]
Here’s my take on four of the Seven Deadly Sins for Speaking in Public. I would be interested to know your thoughts… Pride: We base a presentation on what we want to say to our audiences with little or no consideration to what they need to hear. Our first concern is for what we know […]
I came across a story the other day that really made me pause and think. An elderly gentleman in his seventies had prided himself on his good memory all his working professional life. As a medical doctor and professor he had been able to learn and recall information easily and almost without thought. As he […]
Should we give people feedback on their presentations and if we do, how honest should we be? Let’s be honest, if we deliver a presentation we are not likely to get any feedback that is helpful from the majority of people in the audience. If we say, ‘how did it go?’ the answer usually is […]
Oh dear…a teleprompter fails, nerves kick in, another presentation and presenter bites the dust. Only this wasn’t in front of a small supportive group of people. This was in front of cameras, clients, employees and investors. Huge exposure. And the subsequent social media publicity takes it to a whole other level. Ouch. If you […]
Now, I am not suggesting we manipulate our audiences, put them in hypnosis or act as a mini dictator. What I talking about here, is being aware of the impact presenters have over the energy and the behaviour of the audiences in our presentations. Most presenters do not fully realise that the way they present, […]
I am prepared to go out on a limb here – most people don’t need to be perfectly polished presenters. They just need to be good enough. Don’t get me wrong. I am not saying that we shouldn’t aim to design and deliver the highest quality of presentations we can. Not am I saying that […]
I met a solicitor the other day at a recent networking event. We were chatting about how to use the 60 second introduction ( sometimes known as the Creeping Ivy or Networker Introduction) to best advantage. She was relatively new to networking and as a family divorce lawyer she was aware that the service she […]
A couple of weeks ago my Collie dog, Sally, was chasing a stick that I had thrown her, when the stick got stuck – in her throat. Narrowly missing all the important blood vessels but taking the tongue with it, the stick lodged in the back of her throat. Fortunately she survived. After a big […]
On a recent two day Presentation Skills for Phenomenal Women, one of the delegates said on day one, ‘ I just can’t do this. How do you manage to do it so naturally and confidently?’ What would her response have been if I had said, ‘ Well… I was born with this skill and as […]
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