Educators face some of the most difficult challenges when it comes to designing presentation slides. Teachers and lecturers have a huge amount of information to share, and often need to provide chunks of text for reference, long quotes, and text-heavy presentations. If you’re sharing a lot of information, how can you still make your slides…
5 Steps to Conquer ‘Death by PowerPoint’ by Eric Bergman is aimed at eradicating the boring, text filled corporate presentations – which we’ve all experienced. It’s a great read, and I’d definitely recommend it. Who is it for? The book is written for corporate presenters. It will be useful to anybody who has to give…
Following is the final post in this series by Ian Griffin, where he shares four approaches to sharing information with an audience. Today we tackle the big one: storytelling. Having considered how executives fail because they attempt to cover too much information in an unclear manner, let’s conclude this series on speaking to inform with…
Ian Griffin shares great advice on writing and giving speeches on his blog, as well as LinkedIn. Having enjoyed his work for many years, I invited him to share some of his wisdom with you. The following four posts provide some great insight into practical ways of informing your audience, without boring them to tears…
Here’s the second of four posts by Ian Griffin. If you missed the first, he’s been discussing the different approaches we can take to share information with our audiences. Click here to read from the beginning. As I outlined in the first part of this series, there are four main ways of speaking to inform….
This is the third installment of Ian Griffin’s four part series helping you to inform your audience without boring them. Read the series from the start. Having considered the two categories of presentations where minimal information is provided, let’s now move to consider what happens when there is more information to include. Ideally, this should…
This is a guest post from Browyn Ritchie. Like ours, her blog discusses all aspects of public speaking, from nerves to storytelling. Today she tells us about her interesting approach to public speaking, which reminds me of the first rule of speaking: it’s about your audience, not you! No matter how much we love or…
I see his point, and feel no need to comment, or disagree. In short, he says- To this day I have yet to see a Prezi presentation that would not have been better had the speaker used something else, including nothing at all. Many presentations would be better if the speaker just spoke, sans slides…
The following is a guest post from Kathy Brunner. Kathy helped us to have a great discussion of person branding on LinkedIn recently, where public speakers were discussing our series on Personal Branding. We invited Kathy to share her great ideas on personal branding with you. Did you ever think of branding as a sensory…