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Freytag’s Pyramid
Freytag’s Pyramid: Transform Your Presentation Into a Story How do you ensure your presentation doesn’t just inform but also engages and inspires your audience? One,effective tools for achieving this is Freytag’s Pyramid, a storytelling framework originally designed to analyze dramatic…
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Your powerpoint is not the presentation
Your PowerPoint is not the presentation. If you believe that it is, then you have entirely missed the point of every single presentation you have ever “delivered” or “received”. You are not alone in this erroneous belief but you are…
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One more time…
One more time… please stop using bullet points and text in presentations. Ask any audience member what they hate most about presentations and you will receive the same answer. There is an overwhelming volume of research data on why text…
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Images should explain themselves
Images should explain themselves with clarity being added by the speaker or an additional word but principally achieved in composition. There should never be the need for a laser pointer, The Mac Spotlight or worse, the computer mouse. The supportive…
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aaaaaaaaagh
aaaaaaaaagh. My response to her Majesty’s Government Emergency Broadcast presentation regarding the 2nd Lockdown for Covid-19 at 7pm 31st October 2020. My response is not because I am against the lockdown. My response is not because I am so disappointed…
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Top 10 tips
A recent tweet from a colleague Edd Broad asked me for my top 10 tips on giving presentations to a large group. Being a man of a certain age, a certain musical upbringing and a certain literary experience, top 10s…
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Speak Chinese
Approximately 13% of the world speak Chinese. That does not mean you should deliver your presentation in Mandarin to the Yorkshire Paediatric Trainees Annual Scientific Meeting. There is no single way to present, not even p cubed presentation style. We…
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busy slide
“I’m sorry for this busy slide, let me talk you through it.” Never be tempted to use a busy slide by either attempting to explain it or by building it piecemeal or worse seeking forgiveness. A busy slide will distract…
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guest blog- losing bulletpoints helped me find my voice
Thank you to Carrie Thomas for her insights and thoughts on her #presentationskills journey There are key moments of feedback that stick with you and can be practise changing. For presenting, my development journey started back in 2015 with…
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