How to deliver a presentation – Should I stand or should I sit? I’ve been asked this question so many times and while the true answer is, it depends, often the real reason someone is asking is that they do not want to stand and are hoping for an easy reason to sit! Why don’t […]
How do I design PowerPoint Slides? First of all – don’t design them, first of all. It’s a misleading title I am afraid. PowerPoint (or other packages) is great. There are many books on slide design and the well-designed slide can make a presentation stand out from all others. I’m all for using slides. But. […]
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 […]
This is a question that as we grow into adulthood we know we can’t answer: my six year old though has just discovered the question and keeps trying to engage us in a conversation as to why he thinks one came before the other. I was asked recently by a client about what came first […]
I was working with a client the other day on a major presentation for them. He outlined the content as it existed in his thoughts so far ( nothing shaped, crafted or created as yet) and asked for my feedback. ‘great content in essence’ I replied, “But…where is the perspective? What are you expecting the audience […]
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 […]
The curse of knowledge is what Chip and Dan Heath in Made to Stick call those situations where you know a lot, probably more that your audience, and struggle to get clarity in your presentations. How can you simplify without losing meaning? How can you pare down without doing the material and yourself an injustice? […]
Imagine a world with no more Death by PowerPoint presentations? No more dull, predictable monotone monologues? No more hours wasted listening to information overload that you will instantly forget when you leave the room? No more irrelevant lists of information that have no connection or resonance with our lives and needs? Here are five ways […]
What a typical, predictable and boring business presentation looks like… The Speaker starts to speak the moment they stand up without centering themselves or focusing the audience The Speaker introduces themselves, ‘Good morning my name is *******a and today I am going to talk to you about… The PowerPoint slides are already up: lots of […]
As some of you will know I have had a change of heart and a change of behaviour recently. After a life time of not really bothering about what I ate (with the odd diet thrown in occasionally), not bothering how I exercised (or not) I have decided that nourishing my ‘insides’ and moving my […]
The Day my projector broke…presentation disaster?
Three reasons why PowerPoint stinks
Feedback is useless…
Could you present on anything?
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