How to Avoid Sending Your Audience to Sleep
(A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words!) When the slide above is on my screen, I am talking to the audience about how to prepare for a presentation. First, I tell the audience this slide isn’t to promote Nike runners. The purpose of having the shoes on the screen is to remind the person preparing […]
Death by Bullet Point is Still a Reality!
Do you attend events where presenters still use slides with bullet-point lists on each slide? I certainly do. Sometimes you can hear the audience audibly groan as they think, “Not another boring presentation where the speaker spends their time reading their slides with their back turned to the audience”. Some things never change! Others think […]
If Your Audience Can’t Remember It, They Can’t Retell It
Why do some people speak for forty minutes and are forgotten before lunch, while others tell one simple story that people repeat for years? Recently, one of my clients who provides Business Executive training said that overseas clients often expressed the thought that we Irish had the natural gift of being good communicators and asked whether this could be taught to other […]
Is this my Bob Dylan moment?
Today, I add some video content to my article. It’s not as momentous as Bob going electric at the Newport Folk Festival. However, it is something I have been thinking about. It would be nice to speak to people in person (sort of) if only online. It worked for Bob after some resistance from his […]
A Positive Outlook for 2025!
As a result of reading Dale Carnegie’s book “How to Stop Worrying and Start Living” and then going on to be a Dale Carnegie Inc. advocation coach, thankfully I have had a positive outlook for most of the time in my life. Or, as the song says and Monty Python sings, “always look on the […]
Stop, Stop, Stop, Selling!
Recently, I turned up to hear how a group of customer-facing “Business Development Managers” (BDM’s) told the story of their business. What happened was as I expected. They immediately launched into what they do and the product/service they provide. Why do they do this? It’s where they’re comfortable and confident as product specialists. It’s what […]
Three Steps to Increased Sales
It requires a great deal of planning, effort, and cost to finally get the opportunity to talk to a prospective customer in person or online. In recent years, there’s been a reluctance on behalf of people to meet up. Online conversations have helped facilitate such meetings, but obviously, It’s never a replacement for face-to-face engagement. […]
Startups, always be Pitching!
ChatGPT is not so Scary Recently I attended a very interesting, informative, and influential summit which I have no doubt will guide in me how I think and what I do well in the future. Jeff Moran invited me to the Learnovation Global Learning Summit in the Aviva stadium. “Words are a form of action, capable […]
ChatGPT is not so Scary!
ChatGPT is not so Scary Recently I attended a very interesting, informative, and influential summit which I have no doubt will guide in me how I think and what I do well in the future. Jeff Moran invited me to the Learnovation Global Learning Summit in the Aviva stadium. “Words are a form of action, capable […]
It’s the Man from Geneva
Why not avail of my FREE offer? Read on I am sure you have noticed the advertisements on the television and radio about the “Man from Geneva”. No, it’s Aviva, the parent corrects the child. I am never sure whether it’s the annoying advertisements, like the man from Aviva and the dozen more that are […]