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Startups, always be Pitching!

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!

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 […]

Make a Bigger Impression when Presenting

Make a Bigger Impression When Presenting

Make a Bigger Impression when Presenting  (Be on the envelope, not the stamp!)  I was recently asked to provide some feedback to researchers presenting their projects.  My overall impression was as follows:  Why must the slide take up the whole screen with the presenter in the top corner, the size of a postage stamp?  Universities, […]

A Picture Paints a 1,000 Words

A Picture Paints 1000 words

Presentation Tip I acquired a new corporate client recently, and by way of getting underway, I asked them to send me a sample of a typical presentation deck. Imagine my lack of surprise when I received a deck full of bland slides, each slide populated with seven to eight bullet points. This is not a […]

Do slides add or detract from your presentation?

PowerPoint presentation skills coaching

Harvard University says they detract! “Harvard just discovered that PowerPoint is worse than useless”, article by Geoffrey James, Contributing Editor, INC.com “PowerPoint was rated (by online audience) as no better than verbal presentation with no visual aids (ouch)” Let me give you my view, based on twenty years as both presenter and coaching presenters to […]

Tips on How to Engage an Audience

tips for a successful pitch

How to create an engaging and persuasive Presentation Please do not start with slides if you wish to create an engaging and persuasive conversation (presentation) that leads to success for you and your organisation. One of the world’s leading and most successful companies engaged me recently to coach a large number of their technical team […]

Create Memorable Presentations – Overcome Death by PowerPoint

Stand Out in a Competitive Market

          Here are a number of questions for you – Do the people who write story books for children start by drawing the pictures and then write the story? Or do they (as I believe) write the story first, and then have an artist draw the pictures that enhance the story? […]