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Episode #267: How To Be That Charismatic Presenter

This speaker has it all. You are sitting down the back of the room, yet you can sense their inner energy, co...

Episode #266: How An Expert Prepares For A TEDx Talk

Reading this headline you might be thinking, “Oh yeah, this guy says he is an expert? Is that really true?”....

Episode #265: Opening Our Presentation (Part Two)

Today we are going to look at Part Two of Opening our speech. In the last episode we used an analogy, the st...

Episode #161: How To Review Your Presentation

How To Review Your Presentation. Athletes and coaches spend a lot of time watching their team’s performance....

Episode #264: Opening Our Presentation (Part One)

First impressions are now down to seven seconds or less. Our opening begins from the moment we are introduce...

Episode #263: The “Impress Your Audience” Speech

Every time we speak, we are representing our professional and personal brands. People judge us and then the...

Episode #262: What Is Your Message

Are we clear enough about our message? There are some common problems around getting the messaging right. We ...

Episode #261: The Purpose Of Our Presentation

Before we tackle the purpose of our presentation we need to understand who is our audience. We covered this i...

Episode #260: Who Is Our Audience

Before we do anything, we need to ask just who is going to be in our audience? If we don’t know that informa...

Episode #259: How To Have An Audience Like You By Building Rapport

They are usually a bunch of strangers attending out talk. We may know one or two people in the audience, but...

Episode #258: Presentation Guidelines

We all stumble into public speaking in business. We don’t start our first job with a grand plan for our futu...

Episode #257: Presentations Fundamentals

Usually for most businesspeople we don’t really know what we are doing when it comes to presentations. We gr...

Episode #256: If You Want To Be Enthusiastic

The idea of having enthusiasm would seem to be pretty obvious for someone presenting. In some cases, though ...

Episode #255: Prime Minister Suga's Inability To Communicate Finished Him Off

The news cycle is awash with Prime Minister Suga’s shock announcement that he will not continue as Japan’s le...

Episode #254: Virtual Chatbots are the End of Civilisation

Have you heard of XiaoIce? According to the media it is a “cutting edge artificial intelligence system desig...

Episode #253: Getting The Timing Right For Your Presentation

When I am running half day or full day training sessions there is no rehearsal. There is a lot of participant...

Episode #252: Gaining International Executive Presence In Japan

Many Japanese companies have expanded their operations outside of Japan to enlarge their business, as the pop...

Episode #251: The Bible’s Parables As A Presentation Guide Even For Atheists

I was confirmed into the Anglican Church when I was twelve years of age. I remember it was the first time I ...

Episode #250: Building Anticipation With Your Audience

Whenever I hear that Jesper Koll, CEO of WisdomTree Investments Japan, is going to give a talk here in Tokyo,...

Episode #249: Omnichannel Presenting

We normally think of omnichannel in relation to the medium being used to contact buyers. We can also use thi...