Jim Harvey

Posts By Jim Harvey

• 10 Top Tips

  10 things to help you use your voice

  It’s your instrument and most people don’t really know how to use it.  Rehearse in the place where you’ll make your speech...

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  10 Top Tips

  10 things to help you start brilliantly

  So many people ask how do you start well in a presentation, and in a previous post I talked about learning from...

• 10 Top Tips

  10 things to help you build a strong story

  The story is the thing, understand that you’ve got a strong message and everything else will follow. So many business presentations have...

• 10 Top Tips

  10 things to help you set up on the day

  There’s so much you can do before the event to make sure that you have a great experience on the day. Call...

• Fit Focus Flair

  So what?

  It’s a really good question for presenters.  Every slide, every story, every image, every point.  Ask yourself  ‘So what?’ because it will...

• Case studies

  Why Andrew Marr is becoming a truly terrible presenter

  Andrew Marr, of the BBC,  is becoming one of the hardest to watch ‘car crash’ presenters in the UK.  He’s finely poised between...

• Confidence

  When telling is a dead giveaway: someone’s trying too hard

  There’s a word for it. It’s called ‘a tell’.  It’s when a speaker ‘tells’ the audience about something without saying anything. There...

• Delivering your presentation

  George Orwell: suitable subject for a tattoo?

  I know that George Orwell, English novelist, liberal and writer, only wrote 4 decent books (The Road to Wigan Pier, Down and Out in...

• 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...