Presentations on the Flying Trapeze!
Glorious Or safe? The build-up to the FA Cup final a little while ago (17th May,2014) described Hull’s run to the […]
View ArticleSumming up the good stuff
There are no ‘rules’ for presenting. Well, okay… don’t read 12 point text off the screen with your back to […]
View ArticleIt’s a book. Seriously. Another grown up book!
Are you ready? Fanfare Please! Well here’s some big news. I’ve just agreed to do another book! It’s to […]
View ArticleInferences in presentations – so watch what you say (1)
A few days ago I posted a presentation tips tweet and – because of the 140 characters limit in twitter […]
View ArticlePresentations book update
Okay, so where are we then? It’s been a bit confusing and a bit exciting on the book front. For […]
View ArticleWriting the book – what toys am I using?
I promised in my last book update that I’d be open about the process of writing, so I guess I’d […]
View ArticleInferences in presentations – so watch what you say (2)
In a recent blog I talked about the need to be clear at the very start of your presentation about any assumptions […]
View ArticlePresentations Rock ‘n’ Roll
Well that’s a lie, they aren’t. They’re a lot of bloody hard work. I thought it might be fun to […]
View ArticleA very brief update
Well, the contract has (finally) arrived. All half-a-tree-worth of it :) I guess I’ll get around to reading […]
View ArticlePresentations – back to basics! :)
Look, it’s not hard, is it?!? All you have to do is stand up in front of people tell them […]
View ArticleThe phrase that pays – What about Batman?
A few times in the last few months I’ve been asked about ‘key phrases’ – and what brought it to […]
View ArticlePresentations training – what’s in it for you?
It’s not unusual for us to get full marks from participants in our presentations training. We even got called “the best trainer I have ever encountered“ in one spontaneous email. My three favourite...
View ArticleNaked presentations
Amongst presenters and professional speakers there’s a jargon term for delivering without slides, props or other help: it’s called “doing it naked”. (Even good professionals get nervous and prefer some...
View ArticleImages about presentations (rather than in presentations)
I can’t pretend there’s scientific research behind these little graphics – just a fair amount of observation over the years! ;) Let’s start off with a touch of cynicism about the topic of your...
View ArticleIt’s not the fault of the presentation if no one likes your idea
There’s a lot of stuff around blaming PowerPoint for bad presentations and I recently found another example of what are – undoubtedly – spectacularly bad slides...
View ArticleWhat the voc(ative)?
Casting my mind back to my schooldays, I remember something called the ‘Vocative’. It’s a particular use of a word as an address (or something like that). So saying “The coat belongs to Simon”...
View ArticleThe presentation waltz
A few posts ago, I used an analogy for how a presenter should treat his or her audience, which got some nice feedback. I suggested that a presentation is like a dance (I had a […]
View ArticleIt’s the weekend: are non-business hours presentations different?
Yes. Presentations on Saturdays are different. There now, that was simple, wasn’t it! Essentially they’re different because they tend to have a more informal feel to them: people are giving up their...
View ArticleYour presentations suck. Here are the top three most likely reasons
Bit of a controversial headline, I know. :) And your presentations might not suck. I’d like to think that mine don’t. But now that I’ve got your attention, here goes… my top three reasons. I’ve […]
View ArticleAn exit round
Presentations are often business affairs. And as such, it’s unusual to get an exit round. What’s an exit round? It’s an actors’ term for a round of applause that happens when the actor leaves the […]
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