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Episode #275: Handling The Q&A

The Q&A is a great chance to clarify any points which were not clear to the audience. This is an opportu...

Episode #274: Presenting Complex Information

What is a complex subject? That really depends on the audience. If they are all experts in that subject are...

Episode #273: Persuasion Power Eats Everything For Breakfast

Persuasion Power Eats Everything For Breakfast Intuitively, we know that people who can command an audience,...

Episode #272: Predictable Results for Presenters In 2022

The prediction business is always fun. We nominate our plans so that God can laugh, according to the old Yid...

Episode #271: The Persuasive Presenter’s New Year Resolution

What is our presenter vision for 2022? If it has any element of success involved (and it would be a pretty r...

Episode #270: Designing The Closes

Let’s look at the designing the closes. Notice this is plural, not singular. There are two closes required w...

Episode #269: The Use of Evidence In Your Presentations

We flagged this point last episode and today we are going to look at the use of evidence when giving presenta...

Episode #268: Designing the Main Body Of Our Talk

In some recent episodes we looked at how to open the presentation. Today we are going to look at designing th...

Episode #267: How To Be That Charismatic Presenter

This speaker has it all. You are sitting down the back of the room, yet you can sense their inner energy, co...

Episode #266: How An Expert Prepares For A TEDx Talk

Reading this headline you might be thinking, “Oh yeah, this guy says he is an expert? Is that really true?”....

Episode #265: Opening Our Presentation (Part Two)

Today we are going to look at Part Two of Opening our speech. In the last episode we used an analogy, the st...

Episode #161: How To Review Your Presentation

How To Review Your Presentation. Athletes and coaches spend a lot of time watching their team’s performance....

Episode #264: Opening Our Presentation (Part One)

First impressions are now down to seven seconds or less. Our opening begins from the moment we are introduce...

Episode #263: The “Impress Your Audience” Speech

Every time we speak, we are representing our professional and personal brands. People judge us and then the...

Episode #262: What Is Your Message

Are we clear enough about our message? There are some common problems around getting the messaging right. We ...

Episode #261: The Purpose Of Our Presentation

Before we tackle the purpose of our presentation we need to understand who is our audience. We covered this i...

Episode #260: Who Is Our Audience

Before we do anything, we need to ask just who is going to be in our audience? If we don’t know that informa...

Episode #259: How To Have An Audience Like You By Building Rapport

They are usually a bunch of strangers attending out talk. We may know one or two people in the audience, but...

Episode #258: Presentation Guidelines

We all stumble into public speaking in business. We don’t start our first job with a grand plan for our futu...

Episode #257: Presentations Fundamentals

Usually for most businesspeople we don’t really know what we are doing when it comes to presentations. We gr...