Leaning on technology
One more time to make a rant on powerpoint.
Do not lean on your slides like a drunken sailor leans on a lamppost, meaning for support rather than illumination.
Your powerpoint, your visual aids, should...
The surgical strike
Most presenters are convinced that they need to tell their audience everything.
Their presentations are packed with facts and their slides are overflowing with data.
The problem is, that people buy on emotion, not logic.
...Rehearse, rehearse, rehearse…
Imagine Tony Parker going into a big game and deciding that he can’t be bothered with warming up.
He’ll just wait for the game to start to make things happen.
Of course, you would find...
Don’t talk to strangers
Everyone has heard this adage so how do you apply it to presentations?
It is much easier to talk with people that you know.
So, your job is to learn everything you can about your...
Nobody is perfect
And that is the good news!
People don’t like perfection in a presenter because it makes them feel uncomfortable.
That’s because they know that they are not.
How can you find some simple ways to...
Being yourself n°2
As one funny adage goes, “Be yourself, everyone else is taken”.
Just as you can sing the same song in different ways, you can swing a golf club to hit the ball in many styles.
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