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Malcolm Gladwell on connecting with an audience
ByJim Harvey February 3, 2016March 27, 2019

You know who he is. He’s the zeitgeist shaping writer of such popular classics as ‘Outliers’, ‘The Tipping Point’ and ‘Blink’. He’s popularised performance psychology and brought millions of readers to consider some fundamental human questions like – Q.What’s the difference between Bill Gates and me? A. Not much. Q. Is success all about hard…

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Did the Presentation Summit 2015 do its job?
ByJim Harvey October 3, 2015March 27, 2019

In a previous post, I asked why I had spent thousands of pounds to attend the Presentation summit 2015 in New Orleans. In this post I answer the question and lead in to a set of posts highlighting the best speakers, most interesting sessions and latest presentation technologies on offer. First the rhetorical question –…

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10 Top Tips | Connecting with the audience | Delivering your presentation | International audiences | Stand Out

Starting your speech with a gimmick – Lucy Kellaway crashes, burns then soars
ByJim Harvey March 11, 2014March 27, 2019

Here’s a really interesting article from Lucy Kellaway at the FT in London. She tells a funny story about trying to launch her speech to 600 bankers with a costume change to help her make her point. It’s a good story and she draws her own conclusions about what she (and we) can learn from…

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Share Presentations Online for Instant Meetings Worldwide
ByJim Harvey April 19, 2013March 27, 2019

The following is a great guest post from Ellen Finkelstein. Ellen is an expert trainer on using PowerPoint and presentation skills to communicate clearly and powerfully. She is a PowerPoint MVP (Most Valuable Professional, a Microsoft award), one of only 10 in the United States. Her well-known website at www.ellenfinkelstein.com offers hundreds of PowerPoint tips…

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Connecting with the audience | Delivering your presentation | International audiences

How to Present to Remote Audiences
ByJim Harvey March 19, 2013March 27, 2019

It’s becoming increasingly common for meetings to be conducted via conference call, Skype or virtual online meetings in business. Of course it makes sense from a business point of view, saving lots of money and time. But is communicating with remote audiences causing you to lose focus in your presentations? Is your message being diluted…

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Speaking to an International audience? Avoid this common mistake
ByJim Harvey November 5, 2012March 27, 2019

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…

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Presenting in English to International Audiences- 8 thoughts
ByJim Harvey March 19, 2012March 27, 2019

I’ve been lucky to have worked with hundreds of Spaniards, Catalans, French, Polish, Russians and Swedes over the past 20 years, helping them to present and pitch to international audiences in English. All of them have had enough English to do exactly what they needed to do, but all of them wanted help to do…

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Delivering your presentation | Fit Focus Flair | International audiences

Does your face speak an international language?
ByJim Harvey November 18, 2011March 27, 2019

Before the study began, facial expressions were considered a “hard-wired human behavior trait,” suggesting that various cultures did not interpret facial expressions differently. However, Jack conducted his study to prove that facial expression interpretation is culturally relevant, using statistical documentation and computer-generated facial expressions.

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Speaking in English (not your first language) to an English speaking audience
ByJim Harvey July 25, 2009March 27, 2019

You’re an experienced presenter in your own language, you have a working vocabulary of over 20,000 words, you can improvise, answer questions, use metaphor, jokes and the vernacular, what do you do when you’re faced with an audience of native English speakers? That little voice in your head can start you thinking all of those…

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