It’s an emergency! Your boss or clients have given you less than 24 hours to get a presentation ready… Help! Don’t worry… Here is how to make a good presentation in a hurry. It’s efficient for us time-poor types and it’s an easy 4-step process: Outline your presentation Practice your speech based on the outline Create a simple slide deck […]
Archives for June 2016
How to Design Presentation Slides
I’ve got bad news for you: Great presentation slides can’t save a bad public speaker. Imagine Albert from the accounting department delivering a monotone speech using Steve Jobs quality slides. Doesn’t work, right?! The good news is, well-designed presentation slides can turn a great speech into an awesome presentation. Preparation done? The key to creating […]
Top 6 Public Speaking Tips: Deliver Like a Pro
Public speaking can be one of the most challenging tasks you are ever required to do. Putting yourself out there in front of an audience can be rough. If only there was a list of public speaking tips which would have an instant impact on your presentation… Oh, look!.. Here they are: 1. Plan backwards You’ve […]
4 Tricks to Keep Your Audience Interested
Janice Brown pressed the clicker and advanced to her second slide. She turned back to the audience and continued. “As you can see…” Janice was nervous. There were only about 25 people in front of her and this made her more jittery. She could see every wince, every uncomfortable shift, and every check of a wrist watch. […]
Death by PowerPoint is a Myth: Nice Slides Won’t Save Your Presentation
Have you ever experienced death by PowerPoint? Death by PowerPoint is an affliction caused by poor use of presentation software. Such as having huge slabs of text or bullet points on slides. The audience is likely to be bored to death by the PowerPoint. Death by PowerPoint is a myth Andrew Shields is an awesome […]
The First 2 Seconds of Your Presentation are Make or Break
No matter what you do in your presentation the first 2 seconds are what sticks in your audience’s mind. There are many aspects of your presentation that will make an impact on the audience. These can be: Body language Eye contact Vocal emphasis Slide design Question handling None of the above will have much impact […]