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Tiers to tears

I’m doing five hours of lectures today. That’s a long, long bash in one day and I’m anxious about the three hours in the afternoon, particularly, because the room is stepped (very steeply indeed, if my memory of it is accurate). That means that (if I’m not careful about my posture) to [...]

Spreading a little link-love

You probably won’t have noticed, but there’s been a big change in the back-office workings of this blog.
Up until now, we’ve accepted the NOFOLLOW default of our software (Wordpress): however, to be fair to people who take the time not just to read the posts (quite a lot of you) but to comment on them [...]

Measuring success in presentations

I was asked recently how I did this.  I didn’t have a ready answer - because I wasn’t doing so.
Firstly, this was because it was a freebie presentation I was doing for fun so I’d not made any attempt to measure things and secondly because I won’t know if people have taken my ideas on [...]

It’s a bit too sychophantic for my liking…

but despite that it’s still worth a few minutes of your time, I’d say.
It’s a brief look at one of Steve Job’s presentations, talking through why it is that his presentations are just so damned cool. Of course, there’s more to it than this, but it’s a nice starting point.

Don’t ask me!

Recently, I attended a seminar given by a ’sales guru’. Great, I thought, as I went in - this will be exactly what I need. Well, sort of!The guru’s presentation style was engaging and the audience was invited (even encouraged!) to get involved: what’s more, there was applause at the end and the [...]

Daughters and airplaines - another point!

As my daughter did her first freefall a couple of weeks ago, someone jumping with her managed to get some stunning photographs of her as she fell.  With her permission (obviously), I’m turning one of them into a slide, showing the three things you need to make a decent presentation.  As I looked at the [...]

FSB conference presentations…

I mentioned in my last post that we were heading up to the northern regionsl FSB conference on April 18th. Well, we turned up and it was quite an ‘interesting’ day. Several lessons learned!
We’d opted for a simple stand, avoiding the (potentially gaudy and boring-because-they-are-all-the-same) types of pull up stands. Instead [...]

Conference time….

This Friday - 18th of April - we’re going to be at the norther regional conference of the Federation of Small Businesses. If anyone wants to pop over and have a chat, see some seriously cool PowerPointing (hey, it’s a stand, not a presentation!), or pick our brains, we’re at stand 40.
You’d be welcome [...]

Daughters and airplanes

Two miles is a long way under certain circumstances. Okay, it’s a short walk and and even shorter run, but it’s a hell of a long way to jump out of an airplane.
It’s an even longer way to look upwards if you’re the one on the ground and it’s your daughter who’s doing the [...]

Don’t practice…

….rehearse instead.
….rehearse instead.
The two things are very different: certainly practicing is part of rehearsing but it’s only a part.
Practicing - doing it over and over and over (and over!) to get the technical bits sorted out. Rehearsing - doing it differently and trying different things and ways of doing things to get the whole [...]