It’s your worst nightmare. You are delivering your important presentation. It’s all going to plan. You are on a roll. And then a member of the audience asks you a question left of field. Or you are asked to deliver your twenty minute speech in fifteen because there’s been an over run. Or there is […]
Do you watch The Apprentice? It has become a firm family favourite in our house at a time when we rarely all sit down together to watch anything on the TV or find something that appeals to both me, my husband and my teenage son. But there is nothing quite like a programme that generates […]
What people say and what they really mean: Thanks for enlightening us But you didn’t really think about us at all and what we already knew. In fact you’ve just spent time lecturing at us and missing the point completely. Lovely font on your slides Your voice was so boring and you stayed glued behind […]
It is tempting isn’t it…if we have the Big Presentation coming up, the one that matters, the one where it is critical that all goes well – to include all that we know. After all, we want to be credible. We need people to know that we know. But the more information we include the […]
Practice makes perfect. It makes sense then, to be careful what you practice. This phrase made me stop and think when I read it in ‘Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff ‘ by Richard Carlson recently. Because for many years when people have said that to get better at presenting you need to practice,(after all practice […]
I’ve had enough: Of people who insist on telling us all they know and cramming it in ten minutes Of people who don’t take the time to find out about their audiences Of people who don’t prepare because they prefer to speak from the heart Of people who put their scripts on PowerPoint so they […]
Do you use a script? Do you fly by the seat of your pants? Do you use the Powerpoint to prompt you what to say?There are a myriad of ways you can ‘write’ your presentations and then deliver it. But here are some things to consider: When we write a script, it is tricky to […]
Think of a recent presentation you attended. How involved did you get in that presentation? Did it make you think? Did it make you do something? Did you feel something? If the answer to those questions was YES, then the chances are you will remember the content and may have cause to draw on it […]
It is everyone’s worst nightmare isn’t it? You are delivering a presentation and during the course of it 5 people walk out. Of course there could be a valid and reasonable explanation: they realised they were in the wrong presentation, they needed the loo, they had just received an urgent phone call because their budgie […]
Look, you ask me why people don’t listen you in your presentations. Why they snooze, dose, check their phones and chat to their neighbours. Why they stare glassy-eyed and passive. Why they sink further into their seats and look nervously at their watches. Well here are some of the reasons: 1. You just haven’t thought of […]
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