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7 Ways to Be Another Mediocre Presenter No One Gives a Crap About

By Dave Mac 6 Comments

7 Ways to Be Another Mediocre Presenter No One Gives a Crap About

You’ve read plenty of posts about what to do in your presentations. Probably less about what not to do. When it comes to presentations, a “not to do” list can be more effective than a “to do” list. Simply because it gives you permission to knock out the negative and unnecessary, freeing you up to […]

Give Me Just 5 Minutes and I’ll Improve Your Presentation 100%

By Dave Mac 4 Comments

Give Me Just 5 Minutes and I'll Improve Your Presentation 100%

Can I tell you my worst nightmare? Speaking to a roomful of people and realizing the only thing they are thinking about is how to get as far away from me as they can. Scary, right? It happened to me more than once. Reciting my meticulously practiced script, or pointing to a graph or table […]

Why is Your Presentation Boring?

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why is your presentation boring

Let’s find out… It’s easy to diagnose a boring presentation. The audience does it for you. Diagnosing your presentation’s boring-ness Is the audience sitting forward, engaged? Do the audience react when you say something that’s emotional? When you ask a question (straight or rhetorical) does the movement in the audience feel like people sitting forward? […]

3 Things You Believe About Presentations That Simply Aren’t True

By Dave Mac 7 Comments

3 Things You Believed About Presentations That Simply Aren’t True

Newbie presenters often go down the same road when it comes to their first delivery. Treading a well-worn, but flawed, path. If you’re about to do your first presentation. If you’re a bit worried about it. You need to read this… Here are 3 things you believed about presentations that simply aren’t true. Forgetting your lines […]

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8 Killer Speech Openers

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“Good afternoon. Thank you for coming to my presentation. Today I would like to talk about ….. ” How boring is this speech opener? …And how would you feel if you were sitting in the audience?



10 Ingredients of a Knockout Presentation (Number 9 is Impossible)

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This was a terrible idea. Archie swallowed hard, took one step towards the stage, and froze. 300 sets of eyes peered at the stage. Awoken by the movement in the shadows behind the bright lights. Archie Benedict looked down one last time at his notes. How had his business partner, Jeff, considered, even for a […]



9 Visual Communication Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid

Presentation Skills: 9 Visual Communication Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid

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“Penguin doing the moonwalk while eating a banana.” That’s what your crappy visual communication looks like during your presentation. Here are the top 9 visual communication mistakes that make you look stupid in your presentation… Mistake #1: Synchronized signing You know how you spent all that time practicing your gestures? …Complete waste of time! As […]



The 11 Best Presentation Hacks You Will Ever Need (#7 is Pure Genius)

The 11 Best Presentation Hacks You Will Ever Need (#7 is Pure Genius)

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The next 15 minutes were going to be a horror show. Lenny stood at the side of the stage waiting to be introduced. One hand filled with a stack of cue cards, the other hand covering a ginormous yawn. He’d hadn’t slept the night before and was paying for it now. His hamburger lunch had […]



4 Tricks to Keep Your Audience Interested

4 Tricks to Keep Your Audience Interested

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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. […]



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