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When Using Storytelling In Business Don’t Lead With Your Insights

When I read this quote from Nobel Laureate Herbert Simon from 1971 that “ a wealth of information would crea...

Presenting When Your Organisation’s Leaders are Struggling

The largest meeting venue in the office complex was big enough to handle hundreds of people and it was packe...

Business Storytelling For Fun And Profit

I listen to some podcasts on writing, trying to better educate myself on the craft. I was hopeless at Engli...

How To Question Your Audience

Presentations have become tediously monochrome. The speaker speaks, the audience sit there passively taking...

Breaking The Rules By Choice, When Presenting

Many people break the rules of presenting, usually unknowingly. They have Johari Window style blind spots, ...

Primacy and Recency for Speakers (Part Two)

In Part One, we looked at the ideas of primacy (the first thing we remember) and recency (the last thing we ...

Primacy and Recency For Speakers (Part One)

Primacy refers to the beginning of something, as it enters our brain. This new entity has a powerful impact ...

How Much Should You Brag About Yourself When Presenting

Bruce Springsteen’s song Glory Days lyric, “Boring stories of Glory days yeah, they’ll pass you by” pops int...

What Is Enjoyable About Public Speaking

For many people it may seem we are getting into oxymoron territory here. “Public speaking…enjoyable? You m...

Simultaneously Dealing With All Four Audience Types When Presenting

Experts, pseudo experts, amateurs, believers, sceptics, supporters, enemies make up that sea of faces in fro...

You Need More Kiai In Your Presentation Delivery

In our High Impact Presentations (HIP) course, we do a number of presentations over two days of training. W...

Should You Distribute Materials Before Your Speech

Sometimes the organisers of the presentation event ask us if they can distribute our slides before the speec...

“Many People Say” And Other Strategies For Dealing With Pushback

Donald Trump has made this technique of “many people say….” famous for dealing with opposing views. This is...

How To Sell Your Presentation To Pull An Audience

Whether we asking to give a talk or asked to present, we need an audience. The onus is on the meeting hosts...

Outlining Your Talk Using The Balloon Brainstorming Technique

A request came to me recently asking me to speak to an audience. So my first question was, “what would you ...

Seven Tips From The First Line Of Presenting

I have the opportunity to give a number of presentations each year. I video them as well, so I can study wh...

Episode #416: Unlocking The Vortex. How To Engage And Inspire Any Audience In Japan

Think about the business presentations you have attended over the years. How many speakers were really enga...

Episode #415: Engaging Audiences: Why Eye Contact Challenges Presenters In Japan

At different times, I have done both formal and informal one-on-one coaching for people who want to improve ...

Episode #414: How to Promote Your Company When Presenting Without Sounding Like a Sales Pitch In Japan

Recently, I was asked to coach the President of a 100,000 person company with a long history for his present...

Episode #413: Seamless Slides and Stellar Delivery. Unlocking AI’s Potential in Presentations In Japan

Something I had never heard of before called “Steampunk” popped up in my TikTok feed. Now I write a daily bl...