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20SEP2011
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Happy Birthday to Me!

I am 43 years old today and for the first time in about 10 years I am away from home and working on my birthday. The kids all phoned me this morning with birthday wishes, but the best present came in the form of a conversation with a delegate on the course I am facilitating in London. Let me give … Continue reading →

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23FEB2011
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Humour and Presentations: Yes or No?

Sometimes, I feel like all of us professional presentation coaches are either a bit hypocritical or bit egotistical. We all collectively seem to have the opinion that humour is really beneficial if done well, but disastrous if not. Since the telling of jokes is a black art that none of us understand, and in the absence of a set of … Continue reading →

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Tagged with Audience, Humour

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17NOV2010
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Interaction Throughout the Presentation

Moving from Monologue to Dialogue to encourage audience interaction and involvement. A couple of weeks ago I was preparing a sales team for a two-day presentation session. The prospect is outsourcing a $1 billion IT project and scheduled 14 different sessions, 30-90 minutes each with 25 presenters and contributors in total. In a sales situation like this, the more the … Continue reading →

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Tagged with Active Listening, Audience, Effective Presentation

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27SEP2010
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Presentation Construction and All That Jazz

I was recently in New York City, and ended up watching a performance at the Jazz Standard.  Jazz audiences always seem eclectic to me. If you go to a Country and Western gig, the audience tend to be uniform, in fact they mostly wear a uniform – involving denim, boots and fantastic belt buckles. Last year at a Springsteen concert, … Continue reading →

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24SEP2010
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Lies, Statistics and Audience Recall

A friend e-mailed me last week with this great article for adult learning professionals (instructional design). I encourage you to read it, but the gist is that the following data are lies: People recall: 10% of that they hear 20% of what they read 30% of what they see My friend was concerned that I refer to these stats in my book … Continue reading →

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Tagged with Audience, Effective Presentation

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