The story is the thing, understand that you’ve got a strong message and everything else will follow. So many business presentations have little or poor story structure. Here’s a short post on the simplest structure for business presenters. Once you’ve got the gist of the three-act thinking, here are a few other ideas that will…
There’s so much you can do before the event to make sure that you have a great experience on the day. Call the venue to specify how you’d like the room set up well before the event, confirm in writing after the discussion and expect that it won’t be done when you get there. Arrange…
Use Alliteration: Alliteration is the deliberate arrangement of words with the same letters and sounds at their start for explosive effect. Alliteration is a trick of the spoken word. A technique that is very popular with tabloid newspaper editors, TV presenters and poets… Examples: Magazine articles: “Science has Spoiled my Supper”, “Too Much Talent in…
Metaphor is a fundamental tool of the English language. Without it, meaning would suffer because we would be left with flat description not vivid pictures in words. A metaphor makes a link between previously unlinked things. This linking can add meaning, and depth to our understanding of the world. When Mrs Thatcher, the UK’s formidable…
Maybe I’m in a bad mood today, but there’s a bit of a rant. I got the idea the first five minutes of a speech by a management consultant in 2008 so don’t think I’ve made it up. It was a quite brilliant mix of cliché, banality and diffidence that delivered a well deserved 30…
The first step towards real focus in your presentations is being ruthless at the construction stage of every speech. – 1. Simply, put less in and deliver just the essence of your thoughts in verbal form so that your absolutely key messages stand out. 2. The second step is to make more of your key…