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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...

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...