When you’re presenting a subject to an audience, you’re looking for ‘relevance’, to make the thing you’re talking about fit a need that they have. Of course you are or what’s the point in speaking? So you could say that the real skill of a presenter, whatever the subject, is the ability to make it…
Focus is important throughout our lives. It’s important in conversation, in writing, in story-telling and the visual arts. The ability to make your point and move on is incredibly rare and undervalued. Movie makers in Hollywood have the largest budgets and greatest amount of talent in the film-world to choose from, and even they get…
Do you know how pate de foie gras is made? Here’s a short outline that gives us all we need to know. “Foie gras is made from the enlarged livers of male ducks and geese. Birds have up to 2 pounds of food per day pumped into their stomachs through long metal pipes that are…
Before the Presentation: Talk to the opinion formers Before you start to prepare anyhting, do a bit of research among your audience. Ask a few of the more inluential people for the 3 most important things they’d like to get out of the presentation you’re going to give them. How? Go and see them, ring…