Facilitation Tips & Tricks for buy-in
Ultimately facilitation is about guiding participants vs. leading them, engaging vs. directing and stimulating learning vs. lecturing.
Category: Presentation skills
Sales presentation tips for success
Customising your sales presentation to the unique needs of the customer is essential to retain interest and engagement.
The 10 minute investor pitch
The core purpose of an investor pitch is to stimulate interest and to get a second (detail) meeting.
5 tips when writing a presentation script for some else
There is a big difference between spoke language and written language. Aim to have it sound natural as it is spoken. The speech should be memorable and easy to …
5 of my favourite TED talks
The Power of TED Talks are that they are engaging, have a clear message we can relate to and hardly ever have any "Death by PowerPoint" to put us …
Top 10 business storytelling tips
Business storytelling helps our audience recall more than a list of statistics or facts, but we still need to be sure our audience leaves with our key points. A …
Top 10 reasons people tune you out at work
Do you feel like people sometimes don’t listen to you at work? We’re all guilty of not listening at one point or another in our lives. We tune others …
Enlightening Question and Answer session tips
Not all Q&A sessions are created equal. We could use technology (Twitter or some other live question feed) to get quality questions, but these solutions can be time consuming, …
Image selection in slide design
Image selection in slide design is about more than just typing the word or concept into Google, it is about clarifying your message and making each slide count. They …
Think billboard in slide design
Effective slides are designed to augment your message - not be your message (notes) or a distraction (clutter). When designing slides avoid to "death by Powerpoint" think billboard (a …
