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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 …
Read more “Video help for your nerves”
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 …
Read more “Accents in your presentations…”
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 …
Read more “A Presentation Genius Interview”