Presentation with complicated data
Presentations are often thought of as being rubbish ways to get over lots of messy information – the complex and complicated. Here’s how to handle it.
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This month's most popular (and useful?) blog posts are:
- How to make a cheap studio for better online presentations from your home or home-office... https://presentationgenius.info/online-presentations-with-a-cheap-studio/
- How to use stories in your presentations (not just telling them! ;) )... https://presentationgenius.info/a-story-matrix-and-using-them-one-your-presentation
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Authenticity in Presentations
Unpopular opinion here… it’s over-rated. I hear/read a lot of stuff online saying that it’s critical to “be your authentic self” when you present (all the time, really, but I’m writing about presentations here). You should be, onstage, the person you are before and after your presentation, they say. I’m not suggesting being seriously disingenuous …
Presentation nerves – coping with different types
What’s that? There are different types of nerves? Afraid so, yes. What’s more, if you’re using techniques to control one particular type of nerves but you’ve actually got a belly-full of the other type, it’s not going to help your presentation at all. Presentation nerves can come from: I’ve got tools for all three, but …
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Keeping audience attention in presentations
That’s not a big blog title at all. Nope! 😉 Ah well, go big or go home, I guess. There are a few things I need to look at here and I can only go over them at a top level in a blog but with a bit of luck you’ll be able to see …
Presentation lessons from my holiday – honestly!
I’ve been away, did you miss me? Almost certainly not! And that’s fine ‘cos you’ve got a real life – and it’s also almost inevitable! Why? Because as humans we tend very much to just pay attention to what’s important to us. We filter out what we don’t need and only see what we’re looking …
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10 ways to make your presentation more memorable
Cast your mind back to when you were at school. (Sorry!) Your teacher was almost certainly a dedicated, trained professional, specialising in how to get information into your head. With me so far? And yet despite that, your teacher didn’t just present information to you in a ‘once and done’ approach, right? Nope: I’m betting …
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online presentations with a cheap studio
I’m not suggesting I have the best home studio for presenting here… nor the cheapest… but for me it’s the ideal compromise between being good and good enough to work really well for clients but without bankrupting me 😉 Want to take a video tour first? I’ll make comments below. Why would you want to …
Easier online presentations
Easier online presentations? Yes please! Here’s a simple hack for PowerPoint and Keynote that helps you stay on top of things hugely!
best presentation of cop26
As I wright this, COP26 isn’t over. I’m hopeful – not happy, but hopeful. My opinion of the best presentation at cop26 might change in the next week or so but to honest it’s going to be a hell of a presentation to beat this. Ladies and Gentlemen, Sir David Attenbrough Now, if you don’t …
