Delivering your Presentation

This is a guest post by Dr Jim Anderson. Jim runs a consulting company in the US and blogs on all sorts of communication skills topics. He agreed to share with us some advice he follows when preparing presentations. If you don’t know who Edward Tufte is, then you really should. He is a Professor…

Are you terrified of standing up to speak? Do you turn into a bore-bot as soon as all eyes are on you? You have a choice: avoid every opportunity you’re ever given to share your ideas and get noticed, or learn to be a better public speaker. Before you decide, check out this video from…

The following question was asked on LinkedIn recently: “I am a speaker and I have this constant fight with event promoters who want my slides, some even say it is mandatory to provide the slides in order to speak at the event. Any tips on handling this objectionable request?” We had already been discussing “slide best…