When you can make presentations without your audience die-ing of boredom but you want to make better presentations to be different from the rest and to have more impact.
Slightly trickier tools that assume you’re okay with the basics like facing the audience and not reading your slides! ;)
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Introduction Let’s face it, unless your whole motivation for giving a presentation is to get from one end to the other without die-ing, falling off the stage or getting abducted by aliens, you want there to be some outcome from your presentation, right? There needs to be a point to it – and that point …
Read more “Your presentations don’t work and here are the most common reasons”
RP – could be Received Pronunciation, but on this occasion it stands for Reflective Practice. Great, but what’s Reflective Practice? At it’s most simple, it’s the habit of looking back at something (performance, project, meeting, whatever) and asking yourself how it went – but doing it in a structured, objective and helpful way. Why would …
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Worked up? Well, sort of. I’m thinking of how you tighten your muscles in Progressive Muscle Relaxation? (Let’s call it PMR for short.) This is a pretty short article because, frankly, it doesn’t take much explaining. Just do it. 🙂 [jcolumns] What’s PMR? There are lots of systems, definitions and so on, but according to …
and how the hell do you know? Let’s talk about success in presentations, and whether yours are any good. Because, let’s face it, one of the reasons we don’t like making presentation is the fear of being thought of as rubbish. That, in turn can make the situation worse, as we start to think, and …
It’s pretty common to be afraid of presenting. Some surveys put it as the most common fear; others as the third most common. But whenever people are asked, presenting is somewhere up at the top, in the company of snakes, bugs, and heights. I spend a lot of time helping people deal with the fears …
In the week that Presentation Genius finally hits the shelves, we’ve put out a set of videos to help with nerves – for presentations in particular, of course! 🙂 Here I am, interviewed by my mate Dave Algeo over Skype, with his editing available in a series of videos on the brand new Presentation Genius …
It’s sad but true, if people can’t understand you, they tend to undervalue you. That’s the rather depressing evidence I’ve included in the book… The long and the short of it is that when people were given information by someone without an accent they valued that information more than when it was given by someone …
Right, so Presentation Genius is based upon a lot (and I mean a lot!) of research. You know that, right? An article I wrote for HSBC just went online at https://www.knowledge.hsbc.co.uk/expert-views/article/improve-your-business-presentations which makes reference to some of it – specifically one way of dealing with presentation nerves… The gist of it is that trying to pretend you’re not nervous when …
The StoryMaking System is the result of reading (in mind-numbing detail) over 400 peer-reviewed research papers, dozens of books, thousands of ours of observational research and blood sweat and tears!
It's the framework for designing a presentation which gives you the fastest way to getting something is (almost) guaranteed to work. It gives your audience what they need - and only what they need - to be impacted.
The key elements are:
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