Your greatest presentation, pitch or speech: You get up in front of an audience and deliver with absolute confidence and conviction. The audience are never in any doubt as to your credibility. It’s an amazing trick, and you can pull it off if you prepare correctly. Those magical, improvising speakers? They didn’t pull that talk or pitch out of […]
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A stand-up comic’s failure to entertain an audience is known as ‘dying’, which is a pretty good way of conveying the sensation. I know from personal experience. When presenting, however, you’re in a lucky position (even if it doesn’t feel like it). The audience is not expecting to be entertained. They need to be informed and persuaded –
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Did you read about that pyschic dwarf who escaped from prison? The headline read ‘Small Medium at Large’. It may have raised nothing more from you than a smile, but I really like that joke, because: It’s short. It’s a satisfying sequence. Everyone I’ve told it to likes it. Those three qualities are precisely what you
I run occasionally, because I enjoy it and it help keeps me in shape. Here’s how the running philosophy helps me with my presentations: 1. Discipline. It can be difficult to find the motivation for both running and working on your communication skills. However, getting used to putting in regular hard work makes it easier every time. For presentations, this
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For F’s Sake Every morning, I experience moments of frustration, fear, fury and other emotions beginning with ‘f’. The combination of the family breakfast/getting dressed ritual – while simultaneously going through the day’s tasks – overloads my tiny brain. I know that I should be mindful, in the moment, and generally prioritizing things correctly, but I can’t
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