Most people’s response to an afternoon of presentations will be: ‘Do I have to stay for all of them?’ Presentations are often dull and ineffective but they don’t have to be. A presentation and a conversation are essentially the same thing and if you arrange your content properly, you can present as easily as if …
How do we remember important conversations in the real world? What was our focus? What seemed important? The example of a nerve-racking first date is used to show how real conversations work and how wrong-headed many presentations are by contrast. With a little help from ‘Lindi’ the cat and ‘Yago’ the owl, of course.
PowerPoint doesn’t have to be prefixed with ‘death by-‘, it can actually add value in many ways. Here are 12 quick practical tips on using images, bullet-points, slideshows, animations and graphs in your next presentation
Pecha Kucha is a global presentation phenomenon in which speakers are restricted to 20 slides that change automatically every 20 seconds. The idea was patented (yes, ‘patented’ !!) in 2003 by two Tokyo based architects Mark Dytham and Astrid Klein and this short video looks at what makes this format of presentation work (and fail) …
Continuing a tradition going all the way back to…er…2017, I have chosen my presentation of the year for 2018. It’s quite an odd choice, and it’s not the guy pictured. Definitely not.
Graphs don’t have to be the worst thing in your presentation. In fact presentations – which are live, interactive, physical, 3-dimensional, personal – offer the best forum for presenting numbers through graphs as this short video (with a little help from Hans Rosling) shows.
View a short video of the top 5 things that drive me maddest in presentations. It features two young guest presenters who do as good a presenting job as most, unfortunately. View here.
New series of 5 x 15-minute mini e-books now available. Upskill your presentations at your next coffee break…at your next 5 coffee breaks! Get targeted help on overcoming nerves, creating effective visual aids, interacting with your audience, keeping it interesting and keeping to time. Buying options from just £1.79 here.
Watch this week’s videocast featuring a clip of a presenter going from a mumble to a roast almost without flinching. Important lesson on presentation delivery within. New book, Awful Presentations, available now.