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How Much are Bad Presentations Costing Your Company? 23 May 2012 | 11:07 pm
How Much are Bad Presentations Costing Your Company? How many presentations have you been to this month? How many were a good use of your time? Do you wish any of them were longer? When I talk with ...
Why are Presentations so Boring? (and don’t blame Powerpoint). 1 May 2012 | 11:04 pm
How do I know if you are bored? “Designing a presentation without an audience in mind is like writing a love letter and addressing it “to whom it may concern””. Nancy Duarte. Presentations are all a...
Forget Your Lines – Watch The Artist! 22 Feb 2012 | 12:39 am
Magical Communication in The Artist. Have you seen “The Artist”? My teenage daughter came home from the cinema a few weeks back and this black and white, “silent” movie captured her imagination like ...
Time to Throw Away Your Goals? 20 Dec 2011 | 06:03 am
My 2012 Resolution “Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. “ –Reinhold Niebuhr The vast majority of people...
Use Prezi where Innovation Needs to Shine Through 13 Dec 2011 | 04:09 am
Click on Picture to See How I Use Prezi. When you want to sell your ideas and proposals to an audience, which Presentation software do you use? Microsoft Powerpoint? Apple Keynote? If you use these ...
Does Karma Exist in Your Workplace? 6 Dec 2011 | 04:20 am
Practical Karma Some years back, I was working with a sales director who would pop in and offer to make teas and coffees to all present. He then spent the next 15 minutes brewing up and making small...
Does Flattery Work on You? 29 Nov 2011 | 04:22 am
Like Me - Like My Product Does flattery work on you – even when you know it’s happening? Are you easily persuaded by someone you fancy – someone you like the look of? Most of us say no to the above ...
Warren Buffet’s Secret for a Lasting Relationship. 9 Nov 2011 | 01:28 am
Set Your Expectations REALLY Low. Warren Buffet – still one of the richest men in the world – was asked some years back about his expectations when it came to choosing an investment. His answer was a...
A Persuasive Lesson from the Madmen. 3 Nov 2011 | 02:50 am
How do we sell something so ugly? When the advertising firm of Doyle, Dane and Bernback was given the task of introducing the Volkswagen Beetle to the USA in 1959 – their campaign broke with conventi...
Tune in to Easy Listening. 26 Oct 2011 | 10:25 pm
Tune Into Easy Listening Have you ever found yourself drifting – daydreaming? Sometimes it happens at the most inappropriate time! During a presentation coaching session last month, John explained h...
