Jim Harvey

Posts By Jim Harvey

• Fit Focus Flair

  Phil talks a lot of sense when sober

  I was talking with a friend last night and he’s a no-nonsense sort of man, the Chief Operating Officer of a global...

• Connecting with the audience

  Telling tales, particularly about yourself

  Steve was a guy I worked with many years ago and he was a great role-model as a presenter.  He showed me...

• Fit Focus Flair

  Masterchef as presentation skills training

  I love ‘Masterchef’, a televised cooking competition in the UK, where would be Michelin starred chefs are brought in, placed under lights...

• Books

  Beyond PowerPoint by Cliff Atkinson (More BMW than Ferrari)

  I started flicking through the book and read a few parts of it and I was overtaken by an awful sense of...

• Charisma

  Developing your ability to communicate charisma

  If you buy into the fact that charisma is a skill that can be learned just as simply as walking, juggling and...

• Personal Impact

  Charisma. Is it born in you or can you develop it as you go?

  I once saw charisma defined as- “the ability to transfer an emotion that the speaker has to his/her audience.” I thought it...

• Confidence

  What happens when you fall off the stage? Public speaking disasters and how to deal with them

  I’m often asked how someone as clumsy as me can be a professional speaker, and it’s a good question that I think...

• Writing your presentation

  5 business phrases that make you sound like a corporate fool

  Maybe I’m in a bad mood today, but there’s a bit of a rant.  I got the idea the first five minutes...

• Delivering your presentation

  Speaking in English (not your first language) to an English speaking audience

  You’re an experienced presenter in your own language, you have a working vocabulary of over 20,000 words, you can improvise, answer questions,...