All posts tagged "Focus"
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Creating your visual aids
PowerPoint Slide Design: it’s Simple!
Slides are always saying something about you. Busy and dull. Cliched and generic? Simple and interesting? What ‘brand’ would you rather have?...
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Stand Out
Q. How much should we say in a presentation?- depends what the customer wants
It’s all about knowing your audience isn’t it? If you don’t know what will ‘fit’ for them, you’re almost always forced into...
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Stand Out
Speakers need this much more than presentation training-
I’ve mentioned Orwell before- See here. And it’s still my view, as a speechwriter and presentation coach, that if more speakers followed...
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177Fit Focus Flair
From the horse’s mouth- Your audiences speaks
Here’s a refreshing article from ‘Presentation Magazine‘- about a Venture Capitalist, the improbably named Guy Kawasaki, who has spent many of his working...
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Creating your visual aids
What is presentation 'clutter'?
You’re going to look around a house that you’re thinking of buying. It’s a a Saturday morning. You’re making a commitment. You’ve...
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Creating your visual aids
What is presentation clutter? In verse form here it is!
PowerPoint slides, bullets, data, Waffle, jargon, handouts (paper), Anecdotes with no punchline, Or point to help you underline. Music, graphics, sound effects,...
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Business Development
David Ogilvy- Confessions of an Ad Man
Holiday reading, staying in a friend’s lovely home in the green mountains north of Barcelona, Spain, I’d finished the crappy novel and...
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Writing your presentation
Orwellian word crimes: modern heroes #1
Who could have said this without irony? They’d have to be in Management Consulting or HR wouldn’t they? “Having finished my deck...
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Business Development
There’s nothing new under the sun
We’re going to ask you to look at some pretty simple things in the first part of this book. Then we’re going...
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