When you’re presenting a subject to an audience, you’re looking for ‘relevance’, to make the thing you’re talking about fit a need...
Great public speakers are really good at sounding like they mean what they say. They practise it, they check for it and...
PowerPoint slides, jokes, data, Waffle, jargon, handouts (paper), Anecdotes with no punchline, Or point to help you underline, Music, graphics, sound...
You’re going to look around a new house on a Saturday morning. You’re making a commitment already. You’ve given up 2 hours...
I was cycling through the quiet morning streets of Barcelona’s old town yesterday, on a bicycle that’s part of the successful public...
Flair is, to many people, an indefinite thing. Some people have it and some people don’t. It’s often counted as innate, something that one...
Focus is important throughout our lives. It’s important in conversation, in writing, in story-telling and the visual arts. The ability to make...
The first step towards real focus in your presentations is being ruthless at the construction stage of every speech. – 1. Simply,...
Retention: In a vast scientific study into memory and retention in education, (Gillian Cohen, Martin Conway and Nicola Stanhop, March 1992) showed...
Do you know how pate de foie gras is made? Here’s a short outline that gives us all we need to know....
On the occasions that you really don’t have time to prepare properly, you might like to start by asking the people in...
