presentation

How Umming and Erring in a speech can improve your believability.

Presentation Skills / admin / April 29, 2021

I came across an interesting paper, while researching an upcoming presentation, called “Exploring Filler Words and Their Impact” by Emily Duvall, Aimee Robbins, Thomas Graham and Scott Divett. It’s a report looking at filler words, their impact on credibility of the speaker and comprehension of the listener. It’s a subject I have always found interesting. […]

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2 quick wins to improve your online communication skills.

Presentation Skills / admin / March 1, 2021

There are a number of ways that you can diminish your authority online and two key ones are to have poor lighting and to get the camera angle wrong. If you don’t get these right then at best, your audience will be struggling to see you and at worst, looking straight up your nostrils …

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Is your plan for this year to be more visible?

I’m seeing a lot of talk at the moment about visibility. The team and I work with hundreds of people a year who need or want to be seen and heard at work and that means being visible. It means telling people what you know that they may find useful and being the person others

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Is what we say more important now?

Presentation Skills / admin / June 1, 2020

Last month Peter asked, with the increase of on-line meetings and reduction in visual cues, whether I thought the language we use has become more important? And my answer is I don’t think it’s any more important than when on the phone or talking while using a flipchart, (and having to keep turning away from

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Are you too frightened to speak up when asked?

Presentation Skills / admin / April 7, 2020

Last month I was interviewed by Ash Taylor of The Business Club House on all things ‘presentation’. We discussed fear, presentation skills and overcoming stage fright – all very pertinent whether you are speaking from stage or in-front of a camera. You can here the recording on Spotify here Talking about what you do is

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Is your presentation style losing you credibility?

Presentation Skills / admin / March 2, 2020

I’ve been out and about quite a bit this past month and watched a lot of people speaking at conferences, seminars and networking events. Generally, the calibre of speaker has been very high; event organisers are finding people who really know their stuff! If you are looking to expand your knowledge on a particular product

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How loud and rude is your inner voice?

Communication Skills, Presentation Skills / admin / October 1, 2019

Is it so loud that it keeps you awake at night? Is it hurtful? I know my internal voice says things to me that I wouldn’t dream of saying to anyone else! Yours may not be quite as negative, but it probably is … at times. The thing to remember is that your brain’s function

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The three big mistakes made with PowerPoint … and how to avoid them.

Presentation Skills / admin / September 2, 2019

Have you sat through a lousy presentation recently? When the speaker literally read his slides out loud to you? I’m old enough to remember when we didn’t have PowerPoint and speakers didn’t use it as a crutch to lean on during their presentations. In fact, my first sales role entailed me turning up to a

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What’s the most annoying thing you can do when presenting?

Presentation Skills / admin / June 3, 2019

Well to my mind, it’s to overrun. Time is our most precious commodity. You can’t make or earn more and once it has gone it can’t be replaced. Which means that as a speaker if you take more time than allotted you are saying that you don’t think that the audience’s time is important. And

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How your feet can change the way others’ see you.

Networking Skills, Presentation Skills / admin / October 1, 2018

When standing, if your feet are jiggling, crossed, moving without purpose, rocking, swaying or shuffling they are telling the person you are talking to that you aren’t as confident as you would like them to think you are. If you are presenting then this can really diminish your audience’s impression of you, which will make

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