Presentation Tips

by Jim Harvey
allcow
COMMUNICATIONS

original thinking-no bull

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Youre someone who wants to make the most of every opportunity that you have to impress your clients,
senior-colleagues and co-workers when you stand up to speak. Maybe youve decided youd like to -

Create shorter and simpler presentations.

Tell more powerful stories.
Develop those first 45 seconds to start really well and grab the audiences attention.
Project more confidence.

Here are our original thoughts on the Information Bursts that form a central part of our training
programmes. Theyre provided for you here to help you to move, motivate and energise your colleagues
and clients alike.
There is also a selection of further books, websites and learning resources listed at the end to help you
carry on with your development in this area.
I hope you enjoy the ideas and if you have comments, thoughts and suggestions that youd like to share
them with me, then please e-mail or ring me on the numbers below. Wed be delighted to hear from you.

Jim Harvey
Managing Director
Allcow Communications

www.jim-harvey.com

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Understanding
Fit, Focus &
Flair

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Whats the point in having a new model on presentations?
None if its a thing that intellectualises or abstracts, but plenty if it helps simplify a very complex
issue and helps people to understand what they have to do to become highly skilled speakers in
their own right.
Fit, Focus & Flair is a pragmatic set of steps, thoughts and habits that I have developed, over time, to help
me do my job in a harsh, commercial world.
Public speaking is a bit like abseiling in that it looks terrifying to the uninitiated but is actually very
simple and very safe if a few fundamental principles are understood. And for me there was no book
that would clearly explain the variables at play. Ones success in any presentation depends on a subtle
variation of 3 independent things

The audience and their needs

The content you prepare
The delivery of that content

I began to ask myself what made for a great speech and I came across a few homilies like The 5 Ps, Tell
them what youre going to tell them, Tell them and then tell them again, which all seem interesting, but
not really useful, if youre launching a product and want to make the strongest impression possible.
I felt that I needed a better way of understanding what I did and sold, and helping clients to understand
why we might ask them to think more deeply about what they were trying to do, and not simply accept
their brief and go away create some lovely looking slides for them that would have very little impact on
whether the speech was a success.
Our model supposes that for you to be successful in your purpose every time you get up to speak, you
need to be skilled at working with the 3 things mentioned above.

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You need to be skilled at finding out about the audience and their needs, then preparing arguments and
information in such a way that it is most easily digested by them- in terms of content, tone and style.
You have to be really good at cutting out the clutter that gets in the way of the point that you want to
make.
Having done these simple things, then you need to be great at delivering this focused and short
presentation in the most interesting and memorable way that you can.
In doing that client work as a speechwriter, trainer and consultant, I have shared those steps with my
colleagues, experienced presenters all, who seemed to find a breadth of vision in it that was useful.
Weve then found it so useful that we have then passed it on to our clients and they, in their hundreds,
have found it useful too.

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Fit
Your presentation should be built with the needs of your audience at the front of your mind and in
all of your preparations you should look to answer the following questions:

What do they want/need to know?

What dont they want/need to know?
How can you find out before you start to prepare?

Focus
Scientific research suggests that 8 hours after you have stopped talking, your audience will have
forgotten 95% of what you said. The questions for you at the Focus stage are:

What is the very least that you can say on the subject in the simplest way and the shortest possible
time?
Which 5% of everything you could tell them about your subject, do you want them to remember
most?
How can you deliver this message in the shortest possible time?

Flair
You have a duty to inform and entertain the audience so flair will make the difference between
professional and exceptional. Flair asks the presenter the following questions:

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What can you do to make the presentation as clear, logical and simple as possible, because simple,
logical and clear is the first step to brilliance in a speaker
How can you make this clear, simple, logical presentation as memorable as you can? Because thats
the point of making your speech, to make an impression, to leave a lasting imprint, to help people to
remember what youve said.

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What kind of speaker

are you?

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It will really help you to get the most out of this book, if you have a clear picture of the kind of presenter
you are now. In this next short session Id like to give you time to identify your current strengths and
weaknesses in relation to the model and see the advantages of being able to develop a more flexible
approach.
All of us, as experienced presenters, will tend to have our own preferences about how we prepare and
give presentations. Thats fine as long as we realise that each strength will take us only so far.

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Simple things to add

Fit, Focus and Flair

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Fit
To understand exactly what it is that the audience wants and needs to know so you can be careful about
choosing what to put in.
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4.
5.

Call the key audience members before you start to prepare and get their views
Send them an outline of the presentation to check its OK
Talk to the leaders or opinion formers before the session, on the day
E-mail them with an outline of what youre going to talk about and ask them for their feedback
Do something (anything) else

Focus
Be ruthless about delivering what the audience wants and needs to know from your presentation.
1. Identify the (single) point of your presentation?
2. List specifically what you want the audience to know, understand, do by the end of your talk?
3. Create a simple storyboard and edit ruthlessly for sense, logic, evidence and conclusions

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FLAIR
To deliver this tailored, focused presentation in as interesting and memorable way as it is possible to do,
given the constraints that the audience needs put upon your ability to add that flair.
Adding Flair is about doing two things:
1. Removing the clutter that gets in the way of a focused clear and memorable presentation.
2. Adding all of the tricks, techniques the skills that public speakers use in order to make what they say
interesting and memorable, but Id suggest you only do that once youve removed the clutter from
your speech.
Examples of Flair:

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No clutter
A simple story structure
Real knowledge of your audience that shows in the presentation
Passion and enthusiasm in the delivery
Clear conclusions
A call to action
Evidence & examples of how your thing can help them
Relevant anecdotes
A strong start and finish to the presentation
Audience involvement
Simple visual aids

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Remove clutter

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What is clutter?
Youre going to look around a house that youre thinking of buying. Its a Saturday morning. Youre
making a commitment. Youve given up 2 hours of your valuable time, and youve left the kids with
Grandma. The details of the property looked good enough, the price seemed right, and the sun is
shining as you pull up outside your possible future home.
First impressions are good. The road is lovely, wide and tree-lined. Theres a pretty cafe with tables
outside and people drinking tea, theres the village green with ducks, and a pub, and a cricket ground
where kids are playing happily on bikes and each other. You walk up the gravelled path and notice
the roses around the door, just in bloom, no traffic marrs the sound of songbirds and the whispering
of a spring breeze in the trees all around you tell you that all is well with the world. You rap the brass
knocker, gently, so as not to disturb anything or anybody and the door opens to a smiling face of a
kindly soul who lives there now Then- Oh my expletive God!
You walk into the hallway and your eyes are assailed by a million impressions at once. The carpet of
crazy kaleidoscope colours, the 146 pictures on the walls, the rugs, and hangings, the dresser, armoire
and long-case clock, the horse-brasses, the cats, the smell of something burning in the kitchen, the
radio, the chandeliers, antimacassars, shoes, umbrella stand, coat hooks, coats, wellington boots, so
much stuff. So much stuff, in fact, that you can barely see the walls, the floor or the shape of the room.
And every room is a rococo nightmare of mix and match madness.
After 5 minutes youve got a headache, after 10 its a migraine and in 15 minutes flat, youre back in the
car, speechless with disappointment. The clutter got in the way. The house was hidden behind it. All
curves and personality, interest and promise erased by interference.
In the world of selling houses, how often do we hear the professionals telling us to remove the rubbish
before a viewing. Some of us even listen to them. Many of us though think people will be able to see
through a bit of mess, and make up their own minds Wont they?
And the answer is Maybe. My research tells me that 20% can and do, but the rest just cant. And
honestly; why should they? Were selling and they are looking to buy. How and why is it not our
responsibility to do everything that we can to help the other party see the real value in the thing theyre
looking at? So if youre wondering what you should do? Tidy upNow.

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I know you can already see the link to presentations, so Ill just finish with a list of things that Ive seen
clutter up the average corporate presentation and if youd like to go tidy up afterwards it will help you
make your point much more powerfully.

Story Clutter

Unclear structure
No clear point to the presentation
Too much detail
Lack of focus on what the audience needs from the presentation
Too many slides
Too many words on slides

Visual Clutter

Too many bullet points on slides

Diagrams that make no point or make a simple point in a very complex way
Diagrams that appear all at once in a riot of colour. Arrows and words that simply confuse an
audience

Verbal Clutter

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Long sentences
Long words
Technical jargon
Your company jargon
Unnecessary repetition

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Create simple
visual aids

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Remember that great visuals support the spoken words and are there to help the audience
understand.

1. Do the slides only after you've completed your presentation plan and storyboard or you'll have an
overlong, text driven, linear presentation that will lead to dull, text driven slides.
2. If you're working from an existing PowerPoint presentation, use that as your storyboard and add
story structure, edit ruthlessly and remove visual, verbal and text clutter.
3. Use pictures and diagrams before words, and use bullet-points as little as possible. Use a short word
instead of a long word wherever you can. Use only nouns, verbs and key phrases on your slides.
4. Do your best to stick to 3 words per bullet and 3 bullet-points per slide.
5. Explain jargon TLA's (Three Letter Acronyms) and technical terms as you use them.
6. Use muted colours with no unnecessarily complex graphics or animations that can be seen in any
light conditions.
7. Follow a strict slide format: every page is laid out exactly the same, making the whole presentation
look very consistent.
8. Make sure that each slide has a single message, which is written out in the chart title and clearly
supported by the words in the chart body.
9. Use occasional theoretical models & frameworks to structure information: time lines, force field analysis, evaluation of pros and cons, strengths and weaknesses.
10. Follow the example set by newspapers, TV and radio news bulletins.

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Build a
stronger
story

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The story is the thing, understand that youve got a strong message in that simple 3-act structure
and everything else will follow.
1. Put yourself in your audience's shoes and ask 'if I were them what would be interesting, useful and
relevant to know and understand about this subject?'
2. Brainstorm everything you could say on the subject onto a single piece of paper.
3. Consult with key members of the audience about what it is they want to know, don't want to know.
Then decide what you absolutely have to tell them.
4. Go back to your brainstorm and highlight those things that now will feature in your presentation
and write your presentation objectives- In this presentation I will show X, Y and Z, and explain how
we came to this decision. Then I will tell them exactly what I think they need to do and by when, to
make the most of their investment.
5. Build the storyboard- Act by act and keep on grinding until there's a real rational, logical path
through the presentation.
6. Create a storyboard that tells the story with key scenes & content from each part.
7. Create the visuals to support the storyboard.
8. Add a high impact prologue (introduction) and epilogue (conclusion).
9. Build your 'script' through rehearsal and repetition out loud rather than writing it out.
10. Write your script to the level you require (bullet points are best but in some very important or sensitive presentations you have to be scripted word for word).

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Start well

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Remember that the first and last minutes of the presentation are the point at which you have the
audiences full attention, use it to maximum effect. Remember Shakespeares lessons.
1. Contact as many people as you can before the date and ask them what they want to get out of
the session, what they'd like to know and what they don't want. Even if they don't respond, they'll
remember you asked them and it will warm you to them.
2. Get a list of names before the event and memorize as much of the list as you can, then fit faces to
names as they walk in to the room.
3. Meet people (even if you know them) as they come into the room, shake hands, have a brief chat
with them to help show your confidence and 'break the ice'.
4. Tell them who you are and why you're there (I'm the person who knows this system as well as
anybody in the world and I'd like to help you learn how to make the most of this excellent piece of
software...').
5. Tell them what they're going to get out of being here (3.2 million in savings, an interesting, useful
and memorable set of hints and tips that will help you to make the most of the investment you're
making....).
6. Tell them how long you'll be and that if they 'do with patient ears attend...' they'll get lots out of the
session. (I'll talk for 20 minutes, and you'll see how useful this product will be for you...).
7. Tell them what you want them to do. (Please feel free to ask questions as we go through and help
me to give you what you need, though if I'm going to cover the point later I may ask you to be a little
patient with me...').
8. Match your energy to the energy in the room (just above the energy level of a quiet room and just
below that of a noisy room).
9. Take them through the 'story structure' for the presentation so they see your logic at the start.
10. Do your introduction to a blank screen so they focus on you, then use the story structure slide for
the 'bridge' to act 1. Then you're in control and ready to go.

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Use
your
voice

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Its your instrument and most people dont really know how to play it.

1. Rehearse in the place where you'll make your speech if you can, it makes a full dress rehearsal and
readies you for the real thing. If you can't use the venue, use somewhere like it.
2. Project to people at the back of the room by imagining the breath that you'll need to make your
voice get there and doing it.
3. Learn to breathe from your diaphragm for deep, slow, powerful breaths that give you all the oomph
you need to project.
4. Practice hitting the end consonants of the words ('She sells seashells on the sea shore' is unintelligible to an audience unless you do).
5. Use the punctuation (verbal or actual) to pause for breath which helps your delivery and allows the
audience to catch up with what you're saying. Practice a comma for a short pause (say 'one thousand' inside your head)and breath, full stop twice that, paragraph three times 'one thousand' again.
6. Rehearse the pauses too because confident use of them will help you to deliver your key points, with
real impact.
7. Emphasise the 2 or 3 key words in a sentence to deliver the real meaning in what you say.
8. Rehearse practising changes of pace, emphasis, tone and drama until it feels right for you. That's
what rehearsal is for, not simply so you remember what to say, but how you say it too.
9. If there are words, phrases, or parts of the speech you just can't say in rehearsal, cut them out or
change them because you won't be able to say them in the real thing.
10. Speak with your real voice, not your 'phone voice or your actor's voice, your own voice with its accent, inflection, pitch and tone will deliver the most credible message to your audience.

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Develop personal impact

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Charisma is the skill of transferring a feeling or an emotion that the speaker has, to their
audience
Everyone is charismatic. But often, when we upset our family or offend a colleague, weve done it
accidentally. Charismatic speakers know how they feel about their subject and transfer those emotions
deliberately.
1. Audiences want to be impressed by the speaker, they want to believe what you say and they want to
see that you care about them, their lives and your subject.
2. Enthusiasm is the most prized quality in a speaker, from an audiences point of view. It comes before
even expertise in their list of things that they want to see from someone addressing them. Would
you rather listen to the worlds leading expert on a subject when she is bored, distracted, and disengaged, or someone who knew enough about their subject but was full of life, energy and interest in
you.
3. Most corporate presenters feel that they should keep their emotions out of the things that they do
and say. This is simply a mistake that makes them less powerful when they are talking.
4. We are always communicating some emotion to the people listening to us. Even when we think
were not.
5. When we take out the emotion were simply replacing things like joy, passion, interest, enthusiasm
and hope with other emotions like detachment, disinterest, diffidence, and distance.
6. Great presenters choose their emotions, the ones most useful for them to get their message across
to their audience. Its not about being positive all the time. Sometimes anger, frustration and passion is often hugely persuasive. But choose your emotions and show them.
7. Remember what youre trying to do to the audience. Were always trying to do something to them.
Explain, inspire, persuade, influence, inform? Theres always emotions attached to these words. Develop your sense of what they are and practice finding them in yourself, and showing them to your
audience.

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The final
polish

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Because theres always a little hint or tip that weve picked up along the way...
1. Dont distribute hand-outs at the beginning or during your talk. People will read them rather than
listen to you. Mention at the outset the hand-outs will be available after the talk so that the listeners
dont have to take notes.
2. Do distribute hand-outs at the start if you have an international audience whos English may not
allow them to understand your speech 'live'.
3. Do remind the audience of unfamiliar definitions or jargon before you use them in your speech and
don't assume that everyone in the audience understand the things that you assume.
4. Deliberate repetition is good and helps an audience remember your key themes for ever. Accidental
repetition of pointless data is dull and shows a lack of preparation or thought by the presenter.
5. Dont discount or undermine your presentation, your profession or yourself. It reduces your credibility to no benefit.
6. Complete your talk in less than your allotted time. Leave more time for questions and discussion
with the audience.
7. When you are asked a question, it's a good idea to restate the question for the audience and to
check that it's really a question not just someone looking to make a point themselves.
8. Plan to stay a while after your talk. People often want to talk with you about what you've said and
tell you what they think.
9. After your talk, check how you did with the audience, ask them what else they need to know, what
you've missed, how you can do better next time. Make notes about the experience and what you've
learned to use in the next one.
10. Remember that every presentation can be better and treat triumph and tragedy as opportunities to
learn!

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10 tips for presenting in

English

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One of the fundamental principles of public speaking is that the meaning of any message is what is
understood by the listener, not what the presenter meant to say, which is a slap in the face for many
people as they learn their craft as a business presenter. It suggests that its their fault if the audience
doesnt get it.
Thats a big responsibility for a person beginning to travel abroad. For the American who goes to China,
or the Frenchman who goes to the UK, your job is to be understood, goes the message, so how can we
make sure that we are?
There are tens of thousands of companies all over the world, expanding into new territories where
English is the native, or the only, common language of business. Whether English is our first tongue or
our fifth, there are real challenges to be faced, to be understood, and to be understood surely is the first
goal of any professional speaker.
There are 3 possibilities in using the English language as a presenter. You may be using 1. English to an audience for whom English is not the first language.
2. English when its not your first language, to present to a business audience of English speakers.
3. English when its not your first language and its not the audiences first language either.

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1 Prepare more than usual
Its no surprise that the speech in English will require 3x more practise, and preparation than you might
usually give to a similar speech in your native tongue. Accept it at the start of your experience and then
youll need less and less as your confidence, vocabulary and experience grow.

2 Keep the story and the language simple

When youre talking to an audience for whom English is a second, third or fourth language, its easy
to get too complex in your language, thinking and visuals, particularly when youre a native English
speaker. Complexity in language is a combination of word length and sentence length so make sure
that even more than usual; you use short words and short sentences to share your ideas. No one will
notice that youve done it, but many more people will understand you because you did.

3 Give out a summary in advance

Its a great idea to give a really brief overview of what youll be presenting to them before they arrive
at the venue, or even to put on their seats as they arrive at the room. Something that gives them
an outline of your presentation, a few titbits of information and allows them some time to prepare
themselves for the flood of ideas and information that will come in foreign language will really help
them to get what it is youre saying.
If you dont want to give out ideas in advance of the presentation then you might prepare a short
summary of your story for them to get as a takeaway at the end of the speech

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4 Start like Shakespeare
In Romeo and Juliet, the prologue is a brilliant piece of writing and an important part of getting the
audience involved in the play. If you think that at the time of its first performance, London was a disease
ridden, rebellious, lawless, drunken town under a dark til dawn curfew, youll understand that the
audience had high hopes and no patience, they had to be told what was coming, it had to grab them
from the start, and then the play had to deliver. Read the prologue and see how great it is at doing all of
this in the first 45 seconds..
This is a play about exotic, ruthless foreigners, therell be blood, sex and death. Two lovers are going to
die. Theyll kill themselves (the worst crime against God), and in their dying deliver an end to a centuries
old feud between their families. If you want to see this you need to be patient, listen and we will deliver
all of this to you in 2 hours....

5 Use Story Structure

Remember that great stories have a clear beginning, middle and end. Audiences expect that structure
though they might not know it, and if they dont get it they can become confused.

6 Work on your vocabulary

We often worry that our lack of vocabulary will affect our ability to say just what we want to say in the
presentations that we give. Its an interesting point, but wrong in my view. Vocabulary is only a very
small part of telling a story (Much less than 7% of the message if the study below is taken to be true),
and if vocabulary is important, prepare to expand your vocabulary as a part of your preparations for your
speech.

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7 Summarise as you go
Its been shown in a number of significant psychological studies that regular summaries and reminders
of where you are on your journey from A to B will help audiences to understand the points youre
making and allow those who need it, time to catch up. People need time to think back over what youve
said to see that they understand it. You do it in your native language and it just takes longer when you
have to do a simultaneous translation in your head. So start with a map of what youre going to say, and
every time youre ready to move on recap before you do.

8 Use clear visual images

When youre presenting to any audience, visual aids should be designed to help them understand (no
just to help the speaker to remember whats next). To international groups the visual aids become even
more important. If you can support your major points with relevant and interesting pictures, or even
key phrases, words or summaries, it will help you to be understood much more easily.

9 Articulate well
You can have a strong accent, you can talk quickly, you can use long words and business jargon and
still be understood, but only if you articulate clearly. Articulation, at its most simple, requires that you
practise and do the following things- Hit the end consonants of the words; practise the vowel sounds of
English, use the punctuation to slow you down and let you (and the audience) breathe. It sounds weird
but it works!

10 Express yourself
If most meaning is conveyed by body language and vocal tone when a person speaks to an audience,
then that is magnified when youre speaking to an audience who might miss the detail of what you say
because they dont speak the language very well. Such audiences will be even more sensitive to the
non-verbal messages youre giving and so its important to be a little more expressive in your delivery
than you might normally be. The audience might miss the words but theyll be swayed by the music all
the same.

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Keep on building
your skill

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Role models, free lessons, blogs and other ways of keeping you sharp:
1. Watch the way that TV news (anything but CNN where theres just too much going on) tells a story
with graphics, text and voice.
2. Look at the structure of a story in a newspaper, notice the headline, the grabber first paragraph in
bold, the detailed in 3 acts, the summary at the end. Its a habit that journalists have drilled into
them as professionals from the start of their careers. We can learn from them in all of our presentations.
3. Read How to Argue and win Every Time by Gerry Spence. Fabulous anecdotes and some great tips
about pitching to hostile audiences in a courtroom.
4. Experiment with new things in your presentations from time to time- Tell a story, do a no text presentation where you only use images to convey your message, inject a little humour with a cartoon
or quotation, use a flip-chart to make a point, anything that means youre developing your flexibility
as a presenter.
5. Search on the web and for great presenters giving great speeches and notice what they do to engage and inspire their audience- try with Steve Jobs Stanford University Commencement speech at
www.presentationhelper.co.uk/ - Great stories with a real point.
6. Go to conferences and watch the speakers there and learn from the good, the bad and the ugly. See
what works and what doesnt and copy them yourself in your own work.
7. Volunteer to make a conference speech or an after dinner speech that puts you out of your comfort
zone, maybe even on a subject that you dont know much about but will have to research.
8. Read some poetry and see what real craftspeople do with words to make maximum impact in the
shortest possible time.
9. Build up a bank of images, words, quotes and stories that you can use in your own speeches.
10. Have a look at some of the great blogs on presentation skills and subscribe to them for free updates.
You might like to try mine at www.allcow.blogspot.com, and tell me what you think.

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for... Books
Great
SUBJECT

AUTHOR

TITLE

Influencing and Arguing

Gerry Spence

How to Argue and Win Every Time

I first read random chapters of this book about 15 years ago off my sisters bookshelf. There were a couple of things that I read that had been on my mind for more
than a decade. I finally decided to buy this book when I happened across it and I was not disappointed. The plain simple logic of how people and situations unfold
is made so clear that you cant believe you hadnt noticed it every day.

Using Powerpoint Well

Cliff Atkinson

Beyond Bullet Points

Beyond Bullet Points is about how to communicate effectively using Powerpoint. You start by defining a single purpose or goal, set a limited number of objectives
to achieve that goal, and support those objective with explanations logically arranged. Nothing new about that. Whats special here is an easy to follow system
that pretty much guarantees success by forcing you to think about what the audience needs to know, rather than what to put on a slide. Its a very solid approach
and much more helpful than, First, write down your goal.
Creating good visual aids

Nancy Duarte

Slide:ology

Millions of presentations and billions of slides have been produced - and most of them miss the mark. slide:ology will challenge your traditional approach to
creating slides by teaching you how to be a visual thinker and showing you how to create simple clear slides to support your speech.
Building Personal Impact

Patsy Rodenburg

The Second Circle

Shes a well know voice and acting coach and this book provides a way to help you focus your energy and connect with other people. Are you as successful as you
could be? Are your good ideas appreciated? Patsy Rodenburg teaches you how to communicate more effectively and powerfully - at home, at work, and, most
importantly, with yourself.

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TED - Ideas worth sharing

www.ted.com

The annual TED Conference is a meeting of the minds for a variety of fields (Technology / Entertainment / Design) in which short presentations are given by
guest speakers. These range from comedians and musicians to philosophers who give an overview of what they do and a brief summary of how the world
can get involved. Many of the talks have been posted as free downloadable podcasts, and virtually all of them are fascinating glimpses into new studies, new
behaviours, and new undertakings. The best are moving and / or inspiring. I guarantee youll be riveted to some of them over the next few weeks. Consider
yourself warned - or invited, whichever applies to you!
Beyond Bullet Points

www.beyondbullets.com

Cliff Atkinsons blog thats full of great tips and some free resources if youre too stingy to buy the book! Its a great starting place to try out the theory and to
find out if it works for you. Theres some great ideas in it but its very formulaic.

Patsy Rodenburg on You Tube

Patsy Rodenburg - The Second Circle

A short taste of the strange lady on you tube that gives a real flavour of what personal impact and the three circles mean. Just go to you tube and search for the
second circle....
Jim Harveys Presentation blog

www.jim-harvey.com

Its a simple collection of my thoughts on presentation skills, designed to be read with an open mind and some of the things are funny too. You can subscribe to
RSS feeds if you want to. Hope you like it.

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What do we do?

We specialise in Presentation, Facilitation and Interpersonal skills.

Were 20 years in the business of helping people develop to their
full potential. Were facilitators, trainers, actors and creative people
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Barcelona, Stockholm, Dubai and Hong Kong.

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