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Best and Worst things about presentations (What Korean people think)
Yesterday, I did a presentation training course with a large company here in Korea. After dinner, I did an exercise inspired by Garr Reynolds’ Google presentation where he asks the audience to talk...
View ArticleLearning From My Own Mistakes
Well, I may have told all those of you who read this blog regularly that you should always back up your presentations – just in case things go wrong, I discovered something else you should also do....
View ArticleCompany Introductions – What to put in
I have sat through so many company introductions and been bored almost to death by one hour presentations telling me about stuff I, and the the other audience members are really not interested in. As...
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“People Who Know What They’re Talking About, Don’t Need PowerPoint”
With the passing of Steve Jobs, there has been a lot of comment about his life and his presentation philosophy. In the recent biography by Walter Isaacson, there are numerous references to Steve Jobs’s...
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Apologising For “Poor English” Many of my Korean students feel the need to apologise for their “poor English” at the beginning of their presentation. This is not a good idea. When you apologise for...
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Dressing to Present
A question I am often asked when I am coaching a presenter, is what do I wear? A simple guideline to follow is to wear clothing that is slightly more formal than what your audience will be wearing....
View ArticlePresenting To Your Co-Workers
Recently I had a meeting with a General Manager of a large foreign company in Korea. The General Manager is a native English speaker and we were talking about the communication difficulties he has with...
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But We Are Different!
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the need to make sure that the images you use in your presentation are relevant to the subject matter you are talking about. Linked to that is an excuse I often...
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Content slides…
I don’t like them. I think they are useless and are a product of the 1990s. Presentations have a bad name. When people are told they “have to” attend a presentation, the image in their minds is of...
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Using A Laser Pointer is a Sign of A Bigger Problem
If you need to use a laser pointer in your presentation, your slides are too complicated. if you have designed your slides well, then you should never need to use a pointer in your presentation. Each...
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