What’s the greatest advice I can give you to improve your speaking and presentations? Keep going. This applies to situations such as: the split second during a presentation when things go wrong the moment when you’re rehearsing for the third time when you start writing a great idea and think ‘I’ve got plenty of time, I’ll just […]
“The ability to talk to a lot of people is freakish”. Chris Rock utters these words when chatting to Jerry Seinfeld on Seinfeld’s web show ‘Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee‘. The whole thing’s good, but that particular bit is at 8:52. Watching Seinfeld and Rock (perfect casting for a ’48 Hours’ re-make right there) discussing courage
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“How can I improve my Powerpoint?” “How can I make my boring subject interesting?” “How do I engage the audience?” These are the sort of questions I get asked a lot. The answer to all of them is simple, really: deliver it to someone who’s outside your industry – I’m ideal for this, by the way* – and ask
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I have two approaches to unknown situations: Learn as much as I can about it before committing to a course of action. Get stuck in and learn as I go. Which is best? Number 1 is the sensible choice obviously, but number 2 is really good fun if there isn’t much at stake. For speaking,
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I don’t need to know how my TV works to use it: I press buttons, magic happens and I get to watch House of Cards. Public speaking was (and stand-up comedy is) like that to me: I know what works because I have the proof of my experience, and I don’t think about the mental
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