Jim Harvey

Posts By Jim Harvey

• Confidence

  The confidence myth: why confident presenters often miss the point

  I’ve got a friend called Quentin.  He’s an actor and a good one too with a long track record of theatre, stage...

• Case studies

  Who should we look up to?

  When you’re pretty good at something it can be easy to get into a comfortable spot and stay there. It happens to...

• Keeping in Touch

  Making the most of conferences

  Conferences are hard work and can be sometimes a little soul destroying. Get the delegate list, identify your targets, book meetings, prepare...

• Personal Branding

  What is the best marketing tool?

  I know that sales people see marketeers as floppy-haired tossers, more interested in their clothes and teeth than selling, but even the...

• Keeping in Touch

  Speaking at a conference

  As a professional, perhaps with a valuable technical expertise, the chances are that you are going to use conferences as a marketing...

• Delivering your presentation

  6 pieces of tomfoolery that some public speaking coaches tell you… and why they're wrong

  Philip Larkin, late, lonely, lovely English poet, wrote a short and bitter little thing that leads us into why so much rubbish is...

• Prezi

  Have you heard? PowerPoint is dead – Prezi is here

  What is Prezi? In a nutshell, Prezi is a Flash-based presentation system that allows users to create incredibly dynamic presentations. Presentations where...

• Fit Focus Flair

  Lesson 6: Use everything in the verbal bag of tricks, but sparingly

  Use Alliteration: Alliteration is the deliberate arrangement of words with the same letters and sounds at their start for explosive effect. Alliteration...

• Fit Focus Flair

  Lesson 5: Use the simple metaphor to help… learn Jeremy Clarkson’s only trick

  Metaphor is a fundamental tool of the English language. Without it, meaning would suffer because we would be left with flat description...