by Jon Torrens | Oct 25, 2018 | Business, Communication skills, Confidence, Presentations
In many video games and role-playing board games, you can choose what type of character to play as. For example, in a military or fantasy game, you will probably see these roles: Heavy/Warrior (AKA ‘Tank’): big, slow and powerful, you can deal out lots of...
by Jon Torrens | Oct 9, 2018 | Business, Communication skills, Confidence, Presentations
PechaKucha is a presentation format of 20 slides, 20 seconds per slide where the slides advance automatically. It’s tough, but it can get great results, particularly with speakers who are prone to waffling. You know one of those, I’m sure (it may even be...
by Jon Torrens | Sep 3, 2018 | Business, Communication skills, Confidence, Presentations
It’s Showtime! The opening night of a show in London’s West End is scary for everyone involved; the most recent dress rehearsals may have gone OK, but now there are hundreds of actual paying customers (and some ruthless reviewers). Success tonight is vital...
by Jon Torrens | Jul 17, 2018 | Business, Communication skills, Confidence, Presentations
The phrase ‘cut to the chase’ appears to have originated in early Hollywood, where (silent) romantic films and comedies would often culminate with a chase. If the studio felt that the script they were reviewing was moving too slowly and would lose the...
by Jon Torrens | Jul 2, 2018 | Business, Communication skills, Confidence, Presentations
I’ve been to a few pitching events recently, and I still see the same old stupid mistakes being made again and again. They may be innocent errors, unnoticed by most people, but each one makes me contort in my chair with painful frustration, because they’re...
