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These are straight-forward hints and tips about making presentations - in the business sense.

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 [...]

2008 04 08 simon Articles
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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 [...]

2008 04 02 simon Articles Comments (3)

Questions - or not

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 [...]

2008 03 29 simon Articles
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A picture and a thousand words

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 [...]

2008 03 17 simon Comments (0)

Interview with a genius

Anyone who knows anything about presenting will know that I (and anyone else who’s ever trained people to do presentations) is a fan of the Presentation Zen blog. See this post, for example.
I came across a nice interview with the man himself recently, which you can find here. My understanding is that the [...]

2008 03 13 simon Personal & blog-related Comments (0)

The obvious #2

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 [...]

2008 03 09 simon Comments (0)

More stories

A while ago I blogged about story-telling in presentations.  Recently I came upon a post on a similar theme in a different blog which is worth five minutes of your time.
I’d also like to draw your attention to the Vital Elders blog, which sometimes contains interesting stories - usually of native American origin.  I’d want [...]

2008 03 07 simon Personal & blog-related
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The obvious #1

This is the first of a set of a short series (13 I think!) of “the blinding obvious” when it comes to making presentations - particularly, in terms of dealing with the nerves associated with presenting. After all, it’s all very well and good talking about the subtle stuff but there’s quite a bit [...]

2008 02 29 simon Comments (0)

Blinded by the lights…..

It might not happen to you, but it might just… you’re called on to give a relatively big presentation and they tell you that there will be plenty of light - a spotlight on you, even. Wow. You can’t fail to be seen - after all, they’re shining a big, bright light at you…If only [...]

2008 02 20 simon Key posts Comments (0)

Sharia Archbishop!

Well, the Archbishop of Canturbury has really hit the news for a bit of public speaking this week! For example, the Telegraph talks about it here; a BBC article can be found here. If nothing else, it’s a sure-fire indication that people haven’t lost their interest in public speaking and so on.
There’s an interesting [...]

2008 02 15 simon Comments (0)