Would you like to be funny at your next talk or presentation? Top tip: don’t try to be funny. Instead, simply enter the situation without ego. Observe what happens and comment on it: the surroundings, what people are doing, and what the experience is like for you. Making observations in real-time punctures the tension created […]
I’m a ‘Support Class’ character. “What on Earth does that mean, Jon?” I hear you bleat. Well, your Myers-Briggs type may be helping you, but I floundered trying to choose mine because I felt I sat in multiple roles. Instead, I find it far easier to describe my training role as a Support Class, a
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Let your audience know what they’re going to get, then throw in lots of unexpected lovely things!
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Here’s what I believe is a great piece of advice for kicking off any presentation, meeting, or other business conversation: Start with the common ground. In an online meeting with Drive the Collaborative Network, the mighty Jo Twiselton was talking about climate change, and made me think (well done, Jo!) with a quote from Katharine Hayhoe: ‘So I’m
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I’ve sat through my fair share of terrible presentations that have been based around tedious slides. These presentations infuriate me while also removing all my energy to do anything about it. Time slows down and I genuinely consider escape routes. The noble art of speaking unintentionally reduced to a form of torture. But don’t blame
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