Presentation Skills
Controlling What Your Audience Pay Attention To!
When you are delivering a verbal presentation accompanied by PowerPoint slides, there is a big risk that your audience will be so busy reading your slides that they will miss what you are saying. There are two ways to avoid this major and all too common problem. Put less words on your slides! (Yes you…
Read MoreFree Yourself With a Wireless Remote
If I had a pound for every time I saw a presenter struggle to change their PowerPoint slides using either their laptop keyboard or a wired mouse, I’d be a rich man! The results are usually pretty predicable: The presenter has to stand between the projector and the screen resulting in their slides being projected…
Read MoreThe Rule Of Three
Listen to any good speaker and you’ll probably find them using this golden rule time and time again. Even Julius Caesar used it! “I came I saw, I conquered. Simply stated, the rule of three says that three key messages is the optimal number for maximum audience recall. Why three and not four or two…
Read MoreIt’s amazing what you can achieve in just one day:
I ran a presentation skills workshop for two amazing young ladies today. Both were reluctant presenters whose nerves had previously been getting the better of them and and as a result their future career progression was effected. They did three practice presentations over the day and the difference was staggering! One said that she was…
Read MoreDon’t be afraid to break the rules!
I was giving a talk recently and one of the audience members shared with us the story of how he was part of a “dragons den” type even where a number of potential inventors were pitching to venture capitalists.The event was organised by Business Link and all the participants had been coached on how to…
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