While everyone seems to be interested in creating content-driven slideshow presentations, there is one visual aid that remains the most effective presentation medium of all. Many people are investing thousands of dollars on high tech visual aids and equipment that will ‘make’ the presentation or ‘win’ that next pitch, not to mention valuable time to create …
Blog bites: PowerPoint as a visual aid, not a script aid Reveal your ideas slide by slide Create colourful presentation drawings Include less information on fewer slides We see it far too often: someone standing in front of an audience, lazily clicking through a 30 slide PowerPoint presentation compiled on a mundane corporate template. And …
Blog bites: Be a champion for your audience Adopt a confident physiology Bring your energy and enthusiasm Banish your inner critic When we ask people what one quality they wish they had more of, the answer is almost always ‘confidence’. Whether you want to sell an idea to your colleagues, influence a senior leader or …
Let’s talk about your voice. Many find listening to their voices on tape or video uncomfortable, usually accompanied with a rhetorical ‘Do I really sound like that?’ question. Given that we ‘hear’ our voices all the time it seems surprising that most of us are unaware of tone, pitch, timbre, tempo, projection and the like. …
Do you realise how much you communicate through your posture? Posture is the way we stand, walk and sit, the way we carry ourselves on a moment to moment basis. Have you ever had the experience of sitting in a meeting when someone walks in very sloppily and collapses into the seat? Their head slowly …
