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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
….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 [...]
Someone who recently introduced me at a presentation I was making checked with me - very courteously - whether I wanted to take questions as we went along or at the end. Taking questions is a point that this blog posting handles rather briefly: as does this post: and this one…. and, well never [...]
A friend of mine runs an art gallery in Liverpool. - she’s called Lydia and she’s lovely. Reading a blog article of hers called “A picture’s worth a thousand words” reminded me that cliches are cliches for a reason - firstly because you need to avoid them when you’re presenting, obviously, but secondly [...]
The second in the list of “Stating the obvious“… or “Stuff you’ll kick yourself for if you don’t sort out”
Some times it’s so obvious it shouldn’t need to be a tip… But the obvious isn’t always obvious, so here goes.
Have a checklist.
Seriously: have it all written down.
By ‘it’ I mean all the things you need [...]