Self Assessing Your Presentation Performance

Self Assessing Your Presentation Performance

Assessments of your presentations are one of the most important tools you can use to continuously improve your performance. Assessments can be performed from two main perspectives. Your perspective, and through feedback from others most importantly your audience. In...
3 More Sins to Sink Your Slides

3 More Sins to Sink Your Slides

In my last post I shared 3 sins that could sink your chances of presentation success. Here are 3 more sins to avoid if you want to create presentation slides that most effectively get your message across. Sin #4: All & Nothing Show When you turn the page in a...
Three Sins to Sink Your Slides

Three Sins to Sink Your Slides

Whether you use PowerPoint, Keynote, PDF, or any other presentation slide authoring software, here are 3 sins to avoid if you want to create slides that most effectively get your message across. Sin #1: Writing Presentation Slides Before Your Speech People come to a...
Happy New Years Resolution

Happy New Years Resolution

Happy New Year everyone! New hopes, spirits, and wishes to kick off 2016. Does anyone need any inspiration for a new year resolution? Or even just a goal to achieve this year, to make 2016 one of your greatest years on record. Well here are 10 of the most common...
Presenters Gift Guide

Presenters Gift Guide

It’s Christmas. With no shortage of gift ideas in every place you could possibly shop, it can be overwhelming if not stressful to think of and find a gift that someone truly needs. And if you’re like me (which means left all the shopping to the last day), you’re...
5 Tips For Your Next Chart Presentation

5 Tips For Your Next Chart Presentation

Almost every professional comes across the need to create a chart to communicate data in a presentation. I have seen some great charts presented, but unfortunately many more awful charts. Is this because the presenter is careless or is it because the presenter doesn’t...
Truth and Story

Truth and Story

A story allows us to say what we need to say in business presentations without being direct or overly persuasive. It cloaks what we need to hear in a beautifully accessible way. So we understand the deeper meaning of the story and the deeper meaning of information,...
1 Habit to Make Your Presentation 10x More Effective

1 Habit to Make Your Presentation 10x More Effective

“I’m just going to light up, to be ready to present” said Anthony – a good friend of mine. I give plenty of tips on calming your nerves before presenting, but as I stood there waiting for Tony, it made me wonder if I needed to add fags to my tips list at least for...