How do you engage the audience – or how do you stop them from falling asleep? Let’s think about this another way – what keeps you listening and engaged in a presentation? Take the content, i.e what and why the presenter is saying what they are saying: Is the content: Something that interests you? Is […]
I attended an event where I heard one of the best presentations I’ve heard for a long time. It wasn’t a professional speaker. It wasn’t very long. And it wasn’t especially professional. But it did three things: It engaged me from the get-go and I never once lost attention The speaker reached out to me […]
Just before Christmas I saw an article (you can read it here) that piqued my interest and got me thinking. It was about a way of bringing together different parts of the community using the lure of a bowl of soup, and raising micro funding for projects, activities and social enterprises. Always a lover of […]
This is the final blog in a short series tracking my preparation and delivery of my very first TEDx talk. The Big Day was last Sunday in Nantwich. This blog is some of my key reflections on the day. There were lots of things happened at TEDx event that didn’t surprise me at all. I was […]
Be yourself – everyone else is taken! This is the second of what will be a series of blogs following my journey towards the TEDx stage in November this year delivering my first TED talk. I was reminded of the quote ascribed to Oscar Wilde when recently the speakers at the TEDx event met informally […]
I am so excited. In November of this year I will be delivering my first TED talk. For those of you unfamiliar with TED talks or are not sure why this should excite me so much, let me take you back to New Year 2016. I’m not one for setting New Year’s resolutions. I’d rather […]
Just recently I have taken part in a photography challenge Let’s get a few things out in the open first: I am no photographer! I like snapping away on the iPhone (like many of you I suspect) but until recently I was a point and snap type of gal. My camera (Nikon 1) did all […]
Oh my! It started with the loud pulsating music, followed by dancing girls, followed by lights, flashing images…and that was before the speaker had even arrived on stage. To be fair, they made a valiant attempt to keep up the expectation of that build up and for the next two hours bounced, strode, jumped and […]
Excuse me for being personal – but do you visit the bathroom before you stand up to speak in public? How do you add some drama, some passion, some energy to a presentation? Apparently Enoch Powell, MP shared his secret tip: always deliver your speech with a full bladder. He believed it added a sense of […]
Death by vol-au-vent is what my husband calls some of those networking events – you know the ones- where you juggle a wine glass and a plate in one hand while trying to accept a business card from some over zealous networker with the other? For every wonderful, charismatic and engaging person you meet at […]
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