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Episode #343: How To Engage Japanese Audience Members When Presenting

Most foreigner delivered presentations in Japan will be delivered in English and have a mixed audience of bot...

Episode #342: Speak Louder When Presenting

There were three experts on the panel for this luncheon event. One man and two women. They were using micro...

Episode #341: Presenting To Data Vampire Audiences In Japan

When I exchange business cards in Japan, I select from the one designed for a Western audience and another fo...

Episode #340: What To Do When Disaster Hits Just Before Your Presentation

I was reading a post on LinkedIn by an American lady, who spilt coffee over her blouse, just moments before s...

Episode #339: Hybrid Presentations Can Be Fraught

Presenting online is difficult. Presenting in person is difficult. The new hybrid version is a combination o...

Episode #338: Helping Japanese Present In English Becomes More Urgent

Major money has been spent for decades by the Japanese Government, to improve the level of English in Japan a...

Episode #337: The Danger Of Audacious Visuals

I have a couple of very good books here at home on how to create your visuals for the slide deck. The layout...

Episode #336: Do You Have Enough Stories When Presenting

The raconteur is admired and the reason is because they are brimming with interesting stories, incidents, vi...

Episode #335: Don't Forget To Pause When Presenting

Don’t Forget To Pause When Presenting Nervousness drives speed when we are speaking. Without even realisin...

Episode #334: Getting From "Me" To "You" When Presenting

“Man, it feels hot in here. My throat is parched. My hands are sweating and butterflies have taken over my ...

Episode #333: How Argumentative Should We Be With Audience Members?

What do we bring to our presentations? Usually we have two things – information and a point of view. For a ...

Episode #332: The Five Minute Cadence When Presenting

Normally a talk for a business audience will be around 40 minutes long. That seems a lot until you start put...

Episode #331: Engaging Our Audience When Presenting

We have a talk coming up which we have to give to a business audience and we work hard on the preparation. W...

Episode #330: How Well Do You Prepare For The Q&A When Presenting?

The beauty of being the presenter is that for the majority of the time we are dominant, the lord or mistress ...

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...