(Watch this video, also about eye contact!) It’s time for your presentation. You walk to the front, go to the laptop and realise that you need to open your Powerpoint. You minimise the previous speaker’s Powerpoint, look around on the desktop for yours, but can’t find it. Ah, there it is. Double click. Wait for […]
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My company (an odd term; it’s only me) has been going for four years. Some kind of special celebration is in order, isn’t it? Not really, it’s business as usual. Another day of utter heroism as I swing between joy and fear, while drinking tea. This is a post of the usual length, but it’s
Hello. Have a look at this video, also about presentation structure! One aspect of bad communication that frustrates me SO MUCH is a confused audience. For me, talking ‘blind’ with no context or structure lacks common sense, empathy and respect, which I believe are pretty important if you’re going to give an effective presentation. You
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Check out this video, also on stories! Let Me Tell You a Story Everyone loves a good story. It can be the best way to start a presentation, because stories go straight into our brains, unimpeded by the usual barriers to understanding information. Quite simply, we’re hard-wired to absorb stories. Our curiosity about the experiences
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Check out this video, also on the theme of Emotion! Beeeeeep! I see a lot of presentations that have effectively flat-lined: the speaker has zero enthusiasm for their subject, and guess what? As a consequence, the audience finds the experience tedious and are desperately looking for ways to escape. It’s a presentation crime which many speakers are
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