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Engaging with the Audience – The Why & How

Recently, I asked 27 Presentation experts from 6 countries to share their top tips for success. The suggestion which came up most often? Engage with the audience. For many presenters, engagement – stopping and encouraging others to speak - isn’t always appealing. Just...

27 Trainers share their Tips on how to improve Your Presentation Skills

For many people speaking in front of an audience is scary. You must present a topic that you are supposed to know well (that’s why you were chosen to talk about it), while everyone in the room is staring at you. Hundreds of thoughts are going through your head…’Do I...

The Golden Rule of Presentations

What is a "presentation"? A presentation is a process of engagement and persuasion which leads from difference to agreement and a presentation plan is crucial to success. Share this free Presentation Planning Worksheet with your team so that everybody can get the best...

Interesting Experience in a Role Play

Recently I had an interesting experience in a role play during a negotiation workshop. Role plays are a great way for people to explore different options, allowing them to try out different behaviours in an environment sufficiently realistic to make it meaningful, yet...

Personality Testing – A Case of Tail Wagging Dog

An article about Personality Testing raises thoughts about developing our own perception of how we actually are as a manager rather than back fitting our behaviour into a prescribed model

Hidden Talent Revealed

Here are some fascinating insights into the early days of the Beatles following the death, at 90, of George Martin, their producer. Writing in the New York Times, Alan Kozin tells this story: ‘A Day in the Life’ , the Beatles song which ends the ‘Sgt Pepper’s Lonely...

Engagement – It’s Not Automatic

Plan to Persuade

Engagement – It’s Not Automatic Recently, I’ve been exploring information, engagement, persuasion as a presentation process with diverse groups like commodity sellers, financial analysts and engineering consultants. It has been quite easy to identify these 3 elements...