I met Sunil Bali at an event last month.  He’s a great guy and writes an interesting and challenging blog, called ‘Adventures in Awesome Living…’ Here’s a great thought starter from him.  Half aphorism, quote and truth (I know the maths doesn’t work). ”Three little birds are sitting on a branch of a tree.  Two [...]

What do you do when you’re stuck in an airport hotel, with 15 hours to kill, and no inclination to do anything immoral, illegal or unwise? Switch on the TV and surf the waves of effluent. ‘Anywhere Idol?, No.’ ‘Al Jazeera? No.’ ‘CNBC? I’m not that desperate… And here it is, a shaft of sunlight [...]

I made a speech a few weeks ago to a business group in Cambridge, UK. I had a great time and met some really interesting people, as usual. One of the people I met was a guy called David Smallman, a business consultant, entrepreneur and radio host of some renown. We chatted for a few [...]

I work abroad a lot, and I spend 50 day plus a year in Barcelona that beautiful, hot, dripping in culture city in Catalunya, Spain.  I love Barcelona, and I know it pretty well, so I was asked to speak about the city at my son’s school as a part of their ‘different cultures’ week. [...]

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Presenting in English to International Audiences- 8 thoughts

March 19, 2012

I’ve been lucky to have worked with hundreds of Spaniards, Catalans, French, Polish, Russians and Swedes over the past 20 years, helping them to present and pitch to international audiences in English.  All of them have had enough English to do exactly what they needed to do, but all of them wanted help to do [...]

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#Prezi from a speech at Mercer in London- Personal Impact

March 12, 2012

Here’s a Prezi presentation I made today to a networking group- The Vine, at Mercer, a professional services firm in London, UK. I created a set of simple slides to talk to, with simple graphics and a super logical layout. No frills and not too many tricks. Comments welcome. Personal Impact- The Vine at Mercer [...]

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A Prezi to speak to- The Inspired Group

March 8, 2012

Here’s the Prezi presentation that I used in my short speech to ‘The Inspired Group’ meeting in Cambridge, UK this evening. The subject was ‘How to add wisdom, guile and breadth to your inner circle…’ for entrpreneurs and small business owners who are members of this lively and well-run networking group.  Thanks to Ann Hawkins, [...]

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Prezi makes people vomit- it doesn’t have to

March 7, 2012

I was talking to a client the other day about Prezi, she’s an experienced PowerPoint presenter, and her take on the Prezis she’s seen was, and I quote- ‘It literally makes me sick. All that panning and zooming…’ I don’t think she meant ‘literally’ sick, but it’s the most common response I get when I [...]

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How Steve Jobs and Nature Fill a Vacuum- be positive

March 6, 2012

Here’s a much used clip of Steve Jobs launching the Mac-book Air way back in 2008. I think that Steve Jobs was a competent presenter, no more, but with 2 advantages over the rest of us- He represented the best marketing company in the world He walked into the room as Steve Jobs. Which gives [...]

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How to use Prezi- a prezi for you to use

March 5, 2012

Having talked a lot recently about the strengths and weaknesses of Prezi, I thought it was about time I ‘showed and told’. So here’s a Prezi presentation of mine, to give you an overview of how you can use the tool to best advantage. You can click through it like a book, or set it [...]

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