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Presentation lessons from a car advert!
I’m a father of two daughters…. and I respond in a typical male way to their safety… What’s more, they’re of that certain age and are gradually leaving home. Which means that this advert pretty much...
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Can you hear me at the back?
There’s the usual once-every-few-years article about how teachers’ voices are their best, most used tool in the Times Educational Supplement (here). It’s right, of course – teachers do use their voices...
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Presenters are like doctors
Wheelchair Steve (Wilkinson) I popped in to the RVI hospital in Newcastle not long ago to visit a mate – Steve Wilkinson, or ‘Wheelchair Steve’. (Hi Steve). That trip, and the fact that my elder...
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Presentation images.
One of the things that has been bugging me recently is the use (and abuse) of images in slides. It seems that more and more people are recognising the need move away from bullet point slides, but...
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Presenting Made Simple
Okay, we know – what’s simple isn’t necessarily easy. After all, dieting is simple Eat less, exercise more but that doesn’t make it easy, I know. So with that caveat in mind I’m rather proud to...
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Videoing presentations training
Over at our curved vision site (were we offer bespoke presentation skills training) there’s an acute lack of videos; in fact there’s only one photo even, in the current incarnation of the website!...
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No one is interested in my presentation…
I’m working with some pretty cool people at the moment, with pretty important jobs. A large part of the presentations they have to make are about things which are really (no, really, seriously!)...
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Presentation skills for Doctors
Stehascope Long term readers may remember that I used to research in a Medical School. For that matter, my elder daughter is training to become a Doctor. Many years ago I even addressed the World...
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Fonts on slides (If you’re using them in your presentation!)
Okay, so we know that how you present information is important. Just having great content isn’t quite going to cut it, you need to be able to present it so that people can get hold of it, mentally. On...
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What’s wrong with being a motivational speaker?
Munch’s “The Scream” (via wikipedia) In self-defence, before I start, let me make it clear I’m not saying all motivational speakers are a waste of time. I’ve seen some great ones – recently! So I’m not...
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