Podcast

Episode #176 Covid-19 Challenges Leaders' Communication Skills

Most leaders tend to underestimate the importance of communicating with their teams even in normal times. W...

Episode #175: Should I Recycle My Content Between Presentations

We go to a lot of effort to prepare for our presentations. We find the best quality information, assemble t...

Episode #174: Owning Your Material When You Didn't Create It

The minions are swarming around the venue. There are people setting up cameras, sound equipment, teleprompt...

Episode #173: How Much Selling Should You Do During Your Presentation?

The organisers of public presentations are usually not very happy for the presenter to start flogging their ...

Episode #172: Advice For Your First Major Presentation

At different stages in our careers we are asked to give a presentation. It may be a simple reporting on pro...

Episode #171: Who Are You Presenting For

My regular Rotary meeting held every week at the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo has a featured speaker. Our speak...

Episode #170: The Big Idea When Presenting

The podium is a powerful place for powerful ideas. The audience has no idea what you are going to say and w...

Episode #169: Small Target Tactics For Hostile Audiences

Presenting isn’t always adoration, adulation, regard and agreement. Sometimes, we have to go into hostile t...

Episode #168: Dress For Success When Presenting

How should we dress when presenting and does it actually matter? It matters - particularly in Japan. Japan...

Episode #167: Using Micro Stories When Presenting

Storytelling is one of those things that we all know about, but where we could do a much better job of utili...

Episode #166: 2020 Here We Go - Let's Build Our Personal Brand As A Presenter

The New Year’s resolutions concept is ridiculous, but only because we are weak, lazy, inconsistent and lacki...

Episode #165: Reflecting On Your Past Presentations

As the calendar year slowly winds down, now is a good time to review and reflect upon the presentations you ...

Episode #164: Leading An Intentional Presenter Life In 2020

Are we going slowly glide in 2020 carrying all the bad habits and bad baggage from everything we have though...

Episode #163: How To Use Video In Your Presentation

Video is the refuge of rascals when presenting. The unskilled Japanese President tries to shift the attenti...

Episode #162: The Winning Formula When Speaking

I was invited to an English Speech contest for Middle School students. The students must have home grown sk...

Episode #160: How To Give A Motivational Speech

I was attending a Convention in Phuket and the finale was the closing inspirational speech for the week of e...

Episode #159 How To Personalise Your Presentation

Are we talking at our audiences or with our audiences? There is a vast difference between the two. Most of...

Episode #158: Should I Go Over The Top When I Present

In our High Impact Presentations Course we have exercises where we ask the participants to really let go of ...

Episode #157 What Is The Best Way To introduce Yourself When Presenting

Usually when we are speaking we are introduced twice. Once at the very start by the MC and then during our ...

Episode #156: How To Control Your Reactions During Q&A

Creating and delivering the presentation sees you in 100% total control. You have designed it, you have bee...