You’d be amazed at how many times I’ve heard that in the introductions of our public training sessions: sometimes it’s even true. While it’s true that sometimes your boss will tell you “to PowerPoint” (interesting how it’s become a verb, isn’t it – rather like “to Google”). It’s at least as common for people to [...]
It’s always risky to provide examples of bad practice, for fear of alienating people – or worse, of them not seeing what’s wrong! However, I’ve just sat through a half-hour presentation which really, really let down the presenter and the company she was representing.
What’s wrong with it? Well, the only reason I sat through [...]
Let me begin by suggesting you ask yourself this simple question – and be honest – have you ever found yourself altering the formatting of your document before you’ve finished writing it? No? Nothing even like that? Then you’re one of the lucky ones who doesn’t suffer from what I’m going to [...]
IntroductionDid you know that the vast majority of men in the UK think they are “above average” as a driver? Obviously, about half of them must be wrong, by definition. Making a presentation often strikes me as being a bit like that. We all think we can do it – and many [...]
…..because everyone else’s are. Simple.
I’ve been chewing over this question quite a lot this week (yes, okay, I’m sad but voice & presentation skills training is what I do) but it was brought to mind particularly by the (very good) speech by Tony Blair and the (excellent) speech given by Bill Clinton. By [...]
Okay, this might be the bravest or dumbest thing I’ve done on this blog but I feel quite well motivated, so I’m going to do it now, before I “bottle-out” as we say in the UK.
I’ve read in many places about the TED presentations (such as Garr’s Presentatation Zen blog) and I have to confess [...]