There are some things speakers do that absolutely kill their credibility. Some of those things are content oriented, some of those things are not. This post is about bringing awareness to some things we do to kill our credibility when presenting. Too many filler words. Filler words are those words we utter when we’re trying […]
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Event planning check list: Tech Needs
I’ve worked a couple of events recently and have seen a few event organizers have mini meltdown over tech needs. In many cases it’s because it was their first time in a space and they just didn’t know what to ask. Some of their melt downs spread to their entire tech crews. To help you […]
The Presentation School will be at The Economist’s Human Potential
This is our third time curating a rapid fire presentation segment for The Economist events series. If you’re in NYC on Wednesday, September 18, come check it out! We selected these speakers and led the speakers through the process of writing, designing and delivering their 20 slide presentations, that automatically shift after 16 seconds. This […]
The Presentation School wrote a guide!
Yup, that’s right. I’m now published and you can get a 6 page, laminated guide for your own, touting much of the content you find on this blog. It took many months to get done, but it now exists! Get your guide here for $5.95 USD: http://www.barcharts.com/9781423218227-details.aspx#.Uin7DWRAR18 Like this blog, the content covers 3 main […]
5 talks with 5 very different styles
The best talks happen when speakers have a clear storyline, speak clearly and are genuine. Sure, we enjoy it when speakers avoid stumbling over words, speak too quietly, move around awkwardly or seem really uncomfortable. Those are things that can be improved with a speaker coach. What can’t be improved are genuine creativity and emotional […]
Embedding multiple audio clips into a single PowerPoint page
I just worked on a recent client project for an advertising pitch where they wanted to have various audio clips play automatically after one click per slide and not have the icons on the screen. This was a new one for me and frankly I didn’t think it could be done. But dear readers, it […]
Developing your own event format: 11 questions to ask yourself
A good friend of mine recently asked me my opinion around using rapid fire presentations at his event, which he had done previously. He wanted to keep the format going because it’s not traditional. Not boring, something different for people to enjoy. Reader of this blog know that I totally agree that rapid fire presentations are amazing. […]
Guest Post: How to Use PR to Boost Your Expert Creds
This week, we have another guest post. This time by a lovely woman, named Jennifer Friedlin, of Iris 7 Marketing, who I will be collaborating with on workshops in the future. We think so similarly it was a no brainer to ask her to contribute to the blog. This week, a post about boosting your […]
A checklist for editing your charts
The last step in presentation design should be to double check your work with one last round of editing. Editing can be a daunting task, especially if you’re the only pair of eyes on a document (We all know how it feels like when you’ve been staring at the same document for so long that […]
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