There’s an epidemic of near-fatal speaker’s diseases to be seen in corporate life. Here’s a quick outline of three of them, with the key symptoms for each to help you decide if you know anybody who’s suffering. If you do, there’s a simple cure. Outlined at the end of the article. Abstraction poisoning: This occurs…
On Tuesday evening, I experienced two firsts: I went to the Apple store on Oxford Road (enormous, trendy and grand), and I saw the brilliant Garr Reynolds speak. If you’re not familiar, Garr is the author of the ‘Presentation Zen’ books – a must read for anyone who ever makes slides, writes speeches, or presents…
Prezi has plenty of corporate branding functions – with more abilities being added each week. If you have a Pro Prezi account, you can add your logo to your overall theme, using the theme wizard. This will make your logo constantly visible in the bottom left of the screen when presenting. It has it’s uses…
I had reason to sit in on a brief, fifteen minute lecture recently, where an SEO specialist was setting out Search Engine Optimisation tactics to a group of amateur Mum bloggers. He started off well, giving a quick round-up of what SEO actually means – it’s about improving where your website gets ranked in Google search results….
Fit, Focus and Flair is our model for making sure each of your presentations are great – not just one in ten, when the stars are aligned and your stock speech just happens to suit the situation perfectly. Find out what we mean when we say ‘Fit, Focus & Flair’. Put simply, Flair is how…
I went to see ‘Top Gear Live” with the kids and my wife last week. For the uninitiated, TG is a TV car show in the UK, now widely franchised throughout the world, that gives three middle-aged men the chance to talk and drive and drive and talk. The ‘Live’ event is a sign of…
So you can now zoom and fade your presentation offerings on a 3D canvas, but guess what – it doesn’t replace good content! The Problem with Prezi on Prezi A great presentation needs: A clear message, Strong story structure, and Visuals that support the speaker. Whether you’re zooming, fading or animating, concentrate on these golden…
Brilliant presenters understand that their audience has ever shifting attention. Sometimes it’s on you, sometimes it’s not. And that’s okay, so long as we know where it is and where we want it to be. Poor speakers tend to leave the audience to their own devices, then get jittery as the audience’s attention tends to…
You’ve slaved away for hours making your Prezi just right – and you don’t want some other swine to get all of the credit for your hard work. Or perhaps you haven’t even started to design a Prezi because you know the dangers of every Tom Dick or Harry being able to see the sensitive…