Podcast

Episode #236: Gold Medal Mistakes When Presenting

Our event speaker was a well-coiffed and well appointed senior executive in one of the world’s biggest corpor...

Episode #235: Ineffective Persuasion Techniques For Presenters

This is horrible. Man, this is so bad, what were they thinking? I am watching a video of a leader asking fo...

Episode #234: The Ultimate Presenting Guide To Owning The Room

There are 13 common mistakes which prevent presenters from owning the room. Here they are - don't do these th...

Episode #233: PM Yoshihide Suga’s Lessons On How Not To Do Public Speaking

Succeeding Shintaro Abe as Prime Minister, Yoshihide Suga has now been thrust into the public arena in a new ...

Episode #232: When To Fake It When Presenting

It makes sense to be authentic when presenting, because this is the easiest state to maintain. As someone wi...

Episode #231: Incorrect Assumptions And Fake News About First Impressions

I was watching an “expert” giving a series of video instruction modules on leading dispersed teams, now that ...

Episode #230: When Using Storytelling In Business Don't Lead With Your Insights

When I read this quote from Nobel Laureate Herbert Simon from 1971 that “ a wealth of information would creat...

Episode #229: Presenting When Your Organization's Leaders Are Struggling

The largest meeting venue in the office complex was big enough to handle hundreds of people and it was packed...

Episode #228: Presenting On Clubhouse

Clubhouse is a new app that enables audio discussions with people who share a similar interest, coming togeth...

Episode #227: Presenting Online Forever

This pandemic will blow over soon and we can all get back to normal. What will that “normal” look like thoug...

Episode #226: Posing Big Questions When Presenting

As presenters we want to inform, persuade, entertain or motivate our audiences. Most B2B business presentatio...

Episode #225: Preparing For This Year's Most Important Presentation – Your Town Hall

Year Two of the pandemic puts a lot of stress on organisations. I was watching a television news report last...

Episode #224: Business Storytelling For Fun And Profit

I listen to some podcasts on writing, trying to better educate myself on the craft. I was hopeless at Englis...

Episode #223: How to Question Your Audience

Whenever I am in the USA, I love watching the different television preachers in action. I noticed they are ...

Episode #222: Breaking The Rules By Choice, When Presenting

Many people break the rules of presenting, usually unknowingly. They have Johari Window style blind spots, w...

Episode #221: The Incredible Lightness Of Speaking

Bonseki is a Japanese art creating miniature landscapes, on a black tray using white sand, pebbles and small ...

Episode #220: How To Work The Room Before and After Your Talk

Rushing out the door to get to your talk and arriving in the nick of time is bad, bad, bad. You have cut it ...

Episode #219: Primacy And Recency For Speakers (Part Two)

In Part One, we looked at the ideas of primacy (the first thing we remember) and recency (the last thing we r...

Episode #218: Primacy And Recency For Speakers

Primacy refers to the beginning of something, as it enters our brain. This new entity has a powerful impact o...

Episode #217: How Much Should You Brag About Yourself When Presenting

Bruce Springsteen’s song Glory Days lyric, “Boring stories of Glory days yeah, they’ll pass you by” pops into...