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Episode #217: 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 into...

Episode #216: Facilitation Skills For Presenters

In the public arena most presentations follow a set formula. I speak, I stop, you ask me questions and then I...

Episode #215: What Is Enjoyable About Public Speaking?

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

Episode #214: Simutaneously Dealing With All Four Audience Types When Presenting

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

Episode #213: 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. Wh...

Episode #212: Should You Distribute Materials Before Your Speech

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

Episode #211: "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 ...

Episode #210: Getting Objective Useful Feedback On Your Presentation

“How was it?” is a pretty lousy survey question a presenter may ask of acquaintances, friends or their staff ...

Episode #209: 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 ...

Episode #208: 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 l...

Episode #207: As A Presenter What You Can Learn From Trump

This recent debate is a hot button topic. Let me set the record straight, I am an Australian living in Tokyo,...

Episode #206: Where Do Presentations Go Off The Rails?

You see it. The presenter publicly self-immolates. They might butcher the start, get lost in the weeds of th...

Episode #205: Lessons From The Virtual World For Presenters

It was a strange feeling. I was back in the Super Safe Classroom after 7 months of teaching solely LIVE On L...

Episode #204: Being Clear And Being Hopeful

Speaking is easy, so being clear should be easy too. Well that sounds good in theory, but there is more hope...

Episode #203: Seven Tips From The Front Lines Of Presenting

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

Episode #202: How To Become A Much Clearer And Better Regarded Presenter

Waffle. This is the enemy of speakers and presenters. Ums and Ahs are obvious fillers. We all recognise th...

Episode #201: Energy Makes Such A Difference In The Online Small Screen

Trapped in a small screen in the corner of the monitor has become everyone’s reality when we have group meeti...

Episode #200: Business Presentations Are Not Boring, But You May Be

We have all grown up in business watching internal presentations at our firms. It might be a big announcemen...

Episode #199: Why Your Posture Is Important When Presenting

“Don’t round your back”, “Stand up straight”, “Pull your shoulders back”, are common parental commands when w...

Episode #198: Stand And Deliver When Presenting Online

We have all migrated back to our homes, waiting for the great pandemic to subside, so that when the coast is ...