Podcast

Episode #45: Boris Johnson's Lessons On Public Speaking

As the Foreign Secretary for Britain, Boris Johnson gets a lot of practice giving speeches and fielding toug...

Episode #44: Knowledge + Skill + Attitude

Highly knowledgeable people are often at a big disadvantage in business. They have expertise and experience....

Episode #43 The Power Of Passion When Speaking

Formulistic presentations tick the boxes, but don’t ignite much enthusiasm in the audience. Yes, the key poi...

Episode #42: Clueless Smart People

Japan is an interesting place. So many things here are ultra modern, high tech, totally nuanced and sophisti...

Episode #41: Lawyers Need To Be Good Presenters, But Don't Know It

Lawyers are smart people, but sometimes do self-defeating things. They are discovering that unlike the “good...

Episode #40: Well Japan, I'm Sorry

Well educated from two top ranked Universities. Undergraduate in Japan and an MBA from the USA. He had a v...

Episode #39: Show Me, Don't Tell Me

Japan is an interesting place where there is a lot of respect for people’s job titles and position in the co...

Episode #38: Designing Our Presentation Part Two

Questions are very powerful. These should be asked rhetorically, in a way that the audience is not actually...

Episode #37: Designing Our Presentation Part One

Designing our presentation is a critical stage. We have identified our target audience for our key messages...

Episode #36: Are You Any Good - It Is 10 Minutes in?

We have worked hard to get our opening right. We know that first impressions really count and we have planne...

Episode #35: You Need 400 Faces When Presenting

Can we be successful as a presenter if we don't connect with our audience? Many presenters believe this sim...

Episode #34: Should I Memorise Or Read My Presentation Content

The content was really great and the way the words were put together was quite clever. Obviously a tremendou...

Episode #33: How To Present Technical Subjects To Non-Experts

Technical experts love their specialty. Usually, they have studied hard and long to get into their professio...

Episode #32: Don't Give Mystifying Presentations

The global chief’s private jet has landed. We are all assembled in a luxury hotel’s gorgeous function room. ...

Episode #31: What Is The Correct Breathing Method When Presenting

Breathing is such a natural act and normally, we don’t pay it much attention. Some how though, when we are g...

Episode #30: Where Should I Stand When I Am Presenting

Usually this isn’t even a question for most presenters because the organisers have already set up the room a...

Episode #29: How Not To Use Your Hands When Presenting

We think of speaking as an activity where we use our voice. That is true but we use a lot more than that. We...

Episode #28: Presentation Advice for Japanese Politicians

Vince Staples, American Hip Hop Rapper, was recently quoted in a Financial Times interview, “You have to pai...

Episode #27: Speaker Final Impressions

Final impressions at the end of a speech are what determine our memory of the person. Life is throwing so m...

Episode #26: Evidence Rich Presentations

There are a number of common structures for giving presentations and one of the most popular is the opening-...