http://www.curved-vision.co.uk/presentation-skills-blog hints, tips and articles ~ to help the impact you make Fri, 09 May 2008 11:03:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.curved-vision.co.uk/presentation-skills-blog/2008/05/09/its-a-bit-too-sychophantic-for-my-liking/ 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 ... http://www.curved-vision.co.uk/presentation-skills-blog/2008/05/06/dont-ask-me/ 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.  ... http://www.curved-vision.co.uk/presentation-skills-blog/2008/04/22/daughters-and-airplaines-another-point/ 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 ... http://www.curved-vision.co.uk/presentation-skills-blog/2008/04/18/fsb-conference-presentations/ 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 ... http://www.curved-vision.co.uk/presentation-skills-blog/2008/04/15/conference-time/ 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 ... http://www.curved-vision.co.uk/presentation-skills-blog/2008/04/08/daughters-and-airplanes/ ....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 ... http://www.curved-vision.co.uk/presentation-skills-blog/2008/04/02/dont-practice/ 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 ... http://www.curved-vision.co.uk/presentation-skills-blog/2008/03/29/questions-or-not/ I sat down this morning to do some research on speaking styles with reference to the American Presidential election campaign. I was particulalry interested in the Democratic race for the nomination (because there's nothing interesting about the Republican non-race). I found this: pretty much job done, in many ways. Essentially, the ... http://www.curved-vision.co.uk/presentation-skills-blog/2008/03/26/america-the-brave/ I recently did a session for an organisation whose brief was to help the voluntary sector in our part of the country become more professional and organised. The day was, obviously, about making a presentation to potential funders and had a "Dragon's Den" format for the afternoon. Take-up wasn't good, ... http://www.curved-vision.co.uk/presentation-skills-blog/2008/03/22/so-scared-it-hurts/