tell stories in your presentations (nope!)
We’re all told to tell stories when we present – but that’s lazy advice. Presentations aren’t about the stories… it’s how you USE the stories that takes a presentation into the ‘wowzone’
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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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our presenters response to covid19
I was supposed to be launching my first physical product (other than a book) right now. It’s got astonishing feedback and was getting traction. You can see it for yourself over at design.presentationgenius.info. It’s a cracking product and people loved it… … but… … I’ve decided not to push the Presentation Design Pack because it …
online presentations
Because of the Corona Virus, lots of people are asking me for urgent help with their online presentations. I’ve split this post into two parts – general help about online presentations and how they’re different from in-the-room presentations and then some specific stuff about the “software de jour” to do that with – Zoom. Some …
five tactics for introvert presenters
Confession time: I’m an introvert. You’d not know it if you saw me on stage, of course, and I’ve recently been described as “a very social chatterbox, like me” but that misses the point of the real me… the me that my clients and audiences don’t see. My job pretty much requires me to be …
creating the presentation design product
Here’s a confession! This is pretty much a totally naff blog post 🙂 What I mean by that is that normally I try to give some tools for making better presentations but in this post (or posts, it might take too long!) I want to explore with you, gentle reader, how and why I created …
two podcast interviews about presentations
Well, while I finally get my act together about to relaunch the (upcoming) “HaveMoreImpact” podcast, I’ve been busy on other people’s 🙂 By co-incidence both came out in the same week. First up is Paul Lancaster’s one-hour long (!) interview for his SuperConnector podcast. We cover presentations of course, but also Batman and the Benny …
Using apples to handle presentation nerves
It’s not just presenters who feel the pinch of nerves! Chatting about the Commonwealth Games a while ago, my friend Alan Stevens posted on the Professional Speaking Association’s Facebook group a comment from one of the shooters, saying that they didn’t feel under pressure from the other competitors – they had to do what they had to …
How to sound interesting in presentations: by telling the toucan
How to sound interesting in presentations is one of the most common questions I get about training. Here’s possibly the most simple of all the tips for being more interesting
How I made a rocking conference presentation
I recently closed Andrew & Pete‘s first Atomic-X conference – it’s a mini-conference leading into a Christmas party. Any why the hell not, eh? Before I go into detail of how I did it and how the presentation went, you need to know the stakes. Andrew & Pete run Atomic, a marketing-and-business-development community that I’m …
