Tools, tactics and techniques for when you’ve got presentations sussed – and you want to move them up to really make them have style and impact.
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Amy Wood Brooks works at the Harvard Business School and in 2014 she wrote a paper called “Get Excited: Reappraising Pre-Performance Anxiety as Excitement”. Not the sexiest title for a document but the content is pretty darn exciting. She was looking at handling nerves and so on – and doing so in a pretty hardcore …
Let’s talk load – cognitive load. You can pick up the origins and history of the idea here, but for now, let’s concentrate on how it applies to making business presentations. The key concept is that the human brain has a limited capacity for processing information (while it’s listening to a presentation/communication such as teaching or …
If you type proprioception into google you get the definition on the left. So what is it for? It allows you to know where you are so that you don’t need to look at your limbs to know what they’re doing. It’s what you’ve not got a lot of if you’re clumsy, perhaps – and it’s …
Read more “Proprioception – a missing book chapter? (Possibly!)”
Leading a team or doing your own marketing? Awesome! But not having the impact on the world you think you should? Less Awesome.
StoryMaking is my new book that looks at how to tactically use stories in your presentations, your marketing and your sales. It's my usual light-weight style over heavy-weight research!
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