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 […]
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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)
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
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
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
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 […]