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Episode #329: Can I Leave My Presentation Preparation To ChatGDP?

Episode #328: Avoiding The Single Dimension In Persuasion

I am constantly amazed at the lack of thinking about seizing opportunities for storytelling to be more persua...

Episode #326: How To Recover From A Presentation Opening Disaster

We all know that first impressions are critical, but what happens if you blow it? There are a couple of typi...

Episode #325: Why We Need To Apply More Professionalism To Weekly Work Presentations

As businesspeople, we don’t get that many chances to face a public audience and give an actual talk. The maj...

Episode #324: Ideas For Advanced Presentations

There are some fundamental mechanics of the presentation delivery. I would call these hygiene factors for pr...

Episode #323: What Level Of Presenter Will You Become This Year?

There are some levels of presenter and so where do you fit in? The scaredy-cat like I used to be, avoiding a...

Episode #322: TED's Advice On Presenting

Chris Anderson is a curator for TED talks and so far there have been a billion views of TED talks since they ...

Episode #321: Selling Yourself When Presenting

In the sales world, it is well known that as buyers the first purchase we make is the salesperson serving us....

Episode #320: Should I Go High Tech With My Presentation

I attended an online presentation recently and the presenter was from one of the HUGE social media companies ...

Episode #319: Low Persuasion Power Negatively Affects The Team

“Urgent – we need help” is the type of text message you love as a training company. It means the “why now?”,...

Episode #318: Six Points Of Persuasion For Speakers

As speakers we have a tremendous amount of things to concentrate on when presenting. Is my speaking speed at...

Episode #317: Applying the Japanese Shu-Ha-Ri Concept For Presentations

The Japanese idea of Shu-Ha-Ri is a combination of three characters – 守破離. I first came across this concept ...

Episode #316: Why Are You Such A Boring Presenter?

Contemplating this title you may be thinking “I am not boring”. You would be a rarity in business then, beca...

Episode #315: Four Strategies For Building Confidence As A Speaker

As a presentations trainer, I can appreciate the difference between class participants when they cross that b...

Episode #314: Should We Argue The Point With Our Audience

We have been asked to speak or we have punted a chance to speak to an audience. We will have a message in mi...

Episode #313: The Beauty Of Presentation Practice

The date has been set for our presentation. Naturally, we are pretty busy with work, so we borrow that Toyot...

Episode #312: How To Have Executive Presence In Japan (Part Two)

In Part One, we explored the mental barriers around linguistic perfection which are holding Japanese business...

Episode #311: Reducing Friction In The Sale In Japan

Inertia is a powerful retardant to getting deals done in Japan. Either they already have a regular supplier...

Episode #311: How To Have Executive Presence In Japan (Part One)

As a training company we are often asked to assist with helping Japanese executives to have “executive presen...

Episode #310: How To Be A Pitch Contest Winner

As Covid slowly declines here in Japan, things are slowly getting back to a semblance of normality. Imagine ...