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10 Slide Design Best Practices for a Knockout Presentation. Number 9 is Impossible!

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10 Slide Design Best Practices for a Knockout Presentation. Number 9 is Impossible!

Your slides are a distraction from your presentation. They are either getting all your audience’s attention (in which case they’re not listening to you) or they are putting your audience to sleep. Think back to the bad business presentations you’ve attended. What made them bad? Most likely the presenter’s lack of preparation and knowledge, and […]

Nobody Gives a Crap About Your PowerPoint Template

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Nobody Gives a Crap About Your PowerPoint Template

A good indicator of how bad a presentation will be is how long the presenter takes to decide which PowerPoint/Keynote template to use. Firstly, there are no good templates. Second, a template is not going to “fix” your presentation or make your presentation better. The only thing that can improve your presentation is YOU. Deliver […]

9 Counterintuitive Steps for a Killer Presentation (Step 6 is Tough)

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9 Counterintuitive Steps for a Killer Presentation (Step 6 is Tough)

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away… Many years before George Lucas’s neck began consuming his head, he and his partner, Gary Kurtz, set about creating a “space opera” which would become Star Wars. It was many years before the outline, and subsequent drafts, became the finished product which made it to […]

7 Shocking Presentation Breakthroughs You Can Use Today

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7 Shocking Presentation Breakthroughs You Can Use Today

Let’s cut to the chase… As a presenter, you suck! Which is astonishing, because you’ve done the not-so-cheap 2 day confident presentation training course; You’ve read the bestselling books on presentations and slide design; You even bought yourself your own laser pointer. But you still suck. And to be blunt… Your audience would rather be […]

Why Slide Design Isn’t Make or Break For Your Presentation

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Why Slide Design Isn't Make or Break For Your Presentation

Does slide design matter? Yes. But not the way most people assume it does. Slide design matters somewhat. To enhance speeches that are already good. Slide design matters zero to enhance speeches that are crap. But, the books, the trainers, the designers, and the online courses want you to believe that if you don’t have […]

Why I Build My Slides Last

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Why I Build My Slides Last

Murray Pearce couldn’t work out why it always ended in disaster. Every time he had a presentation to do he spent hours preparing. Every time it ended badly. After his extensive preparation and practice sessions, Murray was convinced his presentation would go well. But, the results were never good. During his preparation sessions Murray ticked […]

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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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