Your communication needs to be interesting – and for that to happen, you need to be interesting. But you’re not particularly, are you? Well, if you put on your ‘game face’, that will certainly be true. Here a few things that I think can generate the magic ‘i’ factor. Unconventionality Surprises Flaws They all come […]
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On April 1st this year I gave a TEDx talk, which you can watch here. I learnt quite a lot from it, such as: Be ready for tech failures (see if you can spot what happens at 5:28 and how I react to it). Rehearsal really, really helps. It means that when things wrong you
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There are various ways to end a presentation badly, such as: running out of time just trailing off: “so… I think that’s… yeah, that’s, that’s it.” “So, does anyone have any questions?” I see a lot of presentations which finish with that last one, where the final slide says ‘Questions?’. What follows in my experience
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Going over your time limit is unprofessional and annoys everyone; the audience, the next speaker, and whoever organised the whole thing. It may seem unimportant to you, but it could mean that your audience infers from you a sense of unreliability or arrogance. Either of which is a sure-fire way of sabotaging all your hard
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You have to give a presentation. You’re nervous; what if something unexpected happens? What will you do? Here’s the most important thing to remember: something unexpected will happen. The Problem Most people I work with are terrified of what might go wrong when they speak, and that if something does (and it probably will) that
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