In yesterday’s post, I discussed some tips for moderating a panel at a conference or business event. Today’s post provides some advice for participating in a panel. Of course, your aim when participating in a panel is the same as when giving a presentation – to provide your audience with valuable information, which they can…
Public speaking isn’t always about giving your information in a set time. Sometimes you’re asked to take part in a panel, or even to lead one. Today we’re sharing our advice on how to moderate a panel, and tomorrow we will share some advice for taking part in a one. Of course, all of our…
As presenters, we can learn a lot from actors who stand up to speak to hundreds of people each night. Patsy Rodenburg is a famous acting coach, and her idea of us having ‘three circles of energy’ describes how we use all have and use different ‘energy’, which in turn affects our actions and voice…
I love geeks but sometimes they don’t seem to love me. I’m not stupid but I’m often made to feel that way when I hear brilliant engineers, scientists and systems analysts ‘trying’ to explain what they do. It’s a crying shame really, because my starting position is admiration of expertise and excitement of the possibilities…
5 Steps to Conquer ‘Death by PowerPoint’ by Eric Bergman is aimed at eradicating the boring, text filled corporate presentations – which we’ve all experienced. It’s a great read, and I’d definitely recommend it. Who is it for? The book is written for corporate presenters. It will be useful to anybody who has to give…
Ian Griffin shares great advice on writing and giving speeches on his blog, as well as LinkedIn. Having enjoyed his work for many years, I invited him to share some of his wisdom with you. The following four posts provide some great insight into practical ways of informing your audience, without boring them to tears…
Here’s the second of four posts by Ian Griffin. If you missed the first, he’s been discussing the different approaches we can take to share information with our audiences. Click here to read from the beginning. As I outlined in the first part of this series, there are four main ways of speaking to inform….
This is the third installment of Ian Griffin’s four part series helping you to inform your audience without boring them. Read the series from the start. Having considered the two categories of presentations where minimal information is provided, let’s now move to consider what happens when there is more information to include. Ideally, this should…
I see his point, and feel no need to comment, or disagree. In short, he says- To this day I have yet to see a Prezi presentation that would not have been better had the speaker used something else, including nothing at all. Many presentations would be better if the speaker just spoke, sans slides…