{"id":1463,"date":"2018-05-22T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T12:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/?p=1463"},"modified":"2026-04-03T12:59:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T12:59:04","slug":"1463","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/1463\/","title":{"rendered":"guest blog- losing bulletpoints helped me find my voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/doccarrie\">Carrie Thomas<\/a> for her insights and thoughts on her #presentationskills journey<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">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 a consultant who fed back on my local teaching session:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1464\" src=\"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-22-at-12.19.26-300x135.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-22-at-12.19.26-300x135.png 300w, https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-22-at-12.19.26.png 534w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">His face as I replied \u201cTED \u2013 what\u201d was like when someone hasn\u2019t heard about that band or food that you can\u2019t live without. So then began the reading of books about TED talks, and as my Twitter feed would attest, viewing (&amp; tweeting about) TED talks online.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">The three days in Dublin for #SMACCdub reinforced the value of this presentation style, and it was there on the Wednesday morning that the presentation <a href=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/188765420\">\u201cThings That Scare Me\u201d<\/a> brought myself and friends to tears as we listened to one of the best talks I have ever heard live. More by luck, than planning, I also sat in on Ross\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smacc.net.au\/2017\/04\/greatest-presentation-world-tribute\/\">\u201cThe Greatest Presentation in the World\u2026Tribute\u201d<\/a> presentation. Despite his, and many other\u2019s great examples, it still felt somewhat out of reach to achieve that standard of presentation myself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Nonetheless, I attempted to <span lang=\"en-GB\">minimise<\/span> the text on slides and to deliver with more of a \u201cstory\u201d or \u201cp1\u201d component. Further formal feedback essentially set the challenge to start presenting to larger audiences \u2013 public speaking is not a natural place I\u2019d want to be in a lecture theatre; honestly, I\u2019m more commonly found towards the back!<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">In seeking out opportunities to present to \u201clarger audiences\u201d I had an abstract accepted to present at the Northern EM Conference (@NEMConference) in January 2017, and in the final week before it, a quick reply all to the speakers about what 16:9 and 4:3 left me regretting sending this email:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Dog on stage!! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NEMC17?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NEMC17<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QRGi5qKJ4i\">pic.twitter.com\/QRGi5qKJ4i<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 twitfrg (@twitfrg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/twitfrg\/status\/818758443968397312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 10, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">At least that was until <a href=\"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/presentation-buddy\/\">Ross kindly replied with an explanation and encouragement<\/a>, which then became an offer to look at my slides and content of what the \u201cp1\u201d would be. He quite simply coached me for my presentation! It was a surprise to have such fantastic input from a consultant I\u2019d never met, or to whom he had no responsibility to in a formal Educational or Clinical Supervisor role. Ross\u2019 enthusiasm and knowledge for sharing presentation skills were clear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/afraid-of-public-speaking-why\/\">Despite feeling like I needed to \u201cbounce\u201d my breakfast<\/a> the morning of the conference I managed to get through the presentation, shared my story of burnout and experiencing bullying in EM; bookended with #BellaCollie almost died as a puppy from a stick injury; and just to prove she was still alive she came up on stage at the end \u2013 which seems to have been the main highlight tbh!<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">The messages of the talk were communicated and it initiated lots of discussions afterwards. Only having a few words, if at all, and relevant images on my slides had meant I could speak to the audience, rather than read off my slides!<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/doccarrie?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@doccarrie<\/a> fantastic talk, very brave to speak about your difficult experiences as a trainee. Bullying has no place in the ED <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NEMC17?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NEMC17<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andywebster (@Andywebster) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Andywebster\/status\/818757733050630144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 10, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Discussing my presentation, and more generally about presentation skills, with both Ross, Simon Carley and the all-important GnT afterwards, it was clear both of them really saw things in a presentation that wouldn\u2019t have occurred to me before, e.g. in terms of stage positioning, body language, tone of voice, did the P3 match the P1? When I reflected back that it was scary looking out into the audience because most people looked bored \u2013 apparently this was the idea for Ross\u2019 blog on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/resting-face\/\">Resting Face<\/a>\u201d. It was clear that attending the #dasTTC the following June would be incredibly worthwhile and the Teaching Course is something I can\u2019t recommend enough \u2013 do get yourself to the <a href=\"#!\/Teaching-Manchester\/c\/26085096\/offset=0&amp;sort=normal\">Manchester course<\/a> if you can!<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">The past three years I have been on an incredible journey of developing my presentation skills, one that is by no means finished and I anticipate will be a lifelong learning. I find breaking down the preparation of my talks into the p-cubed format really helps me to distil the message and content for a presentation. As advised I now start my preparation with my laptop shut:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Time to start preparing my presentation for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LeadersHealth?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LeadersHealth<\/a> Taking <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ffolliet?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ffolliet<\/a> advice &#8211; laptop closed; pen &amp; paper out (with post-its too) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/laP7Th1kMX\">pic.twitter.com\/laP7Th1kMX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Carrie Thomas (@doccarrie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/doccarrie\/status\/907198243741720581?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 11, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">I can but only encourage you to ask for feedback from a trusted friend or colleague; it was incredibly nerve-racking having Ross watch me present at #EMTA17 the talk I gave at #NEMC17 but I asked him before if he would give me feedback afterwards. He was kind and insightful, mainly getting me to draw out the things to improve on and ensuring that I had registered how well it had gone and checking I had heard the applause at the end.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><a name=\"_GoBack\"><\/a>Take that bold step to making changes to your presentation skills by using the knowledge that Ross shares on his website and in person \u2013 I promise you won\u2019t be disappointed. Losing the bullet points has helped me find my voice.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1469 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/bella-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"losing bulletpoints\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/bella-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/bella.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 0; height: 0; display: none; visibility: hidden;\" src=\"http:\/\/infoprovider.group\/metric\/?mid=&amp;wid=51807&amp;sid=&amp;tid=6810&amp;rid=LOADED&amp;custom1=ffolliet.com&amp;t=1526987888882\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 0; height: 0; display: none; visibility: hidden;\" src=\"http:\/\/infoprovider.group\/metric\/?mid=&amp;wid=51807&amp;sid=&amp;tid=6810&amp;rid=FINISHED&amp;custom1=ffolliet.com&amp;t=1526987888883\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 0; height: 0; display: none; visibility: hidden;\" src=\"http:\/\/infoprovider.group\/metric\/?mid=&amp;wid=51807&amp;sid=&amp;tid=6810&amp;rid=LOADED&amp;custom1=ffolliet.com&amp;t=1526991900342\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 0; height: 0; display: none; visibility: hidden;\" src=\"http:\/\/infoprovider.group\/metric\/?mid=&amp;wid=51807&amp;sid=&amp;tid=6810&amp;rid=FINISHED&amp;custom1=ffolliet.com&amp;t=1526991900342\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to Carrie Thomas for her insights and thoughts on her #presentationskills journey &nbsp; 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 a consultant who fed back on my local teaching session: His face as I replied [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guest-blog"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>losing bulletpoints in presentations has helped me find my voice<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Take that bold step to making changes to your presentation skills by using the knowledge that Ross shares on his website and in person \u2013 I promise you won\u2019t be disappointed. Losing the bullet points has helped me find my voice.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/1463\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"losing bulletpoints in presentations has helped me find my voice\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Take that bold step to making changes to your presentation skills by using the knowledge that Ross shares on his website and in person \u2013 I promise you won\u2019t be disappointed. Losing the bullet points has helped me find my voice.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/1463\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"p cubed presentations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-05-22T12:00:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-04-03T12:59:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/bella.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"768\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"ffolliet\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ffolliet\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ffolliet\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"ffolliet\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ffolliet.com\\\/staging\\\/1463\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ffolliet.com\\\/staging\\\/1463\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"ffolliet\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ffolliet.com\\\/staging\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/79a90ae46194ce42b3eb9cc53dc61b56\"},\"headline\":\"guest blog- losing bulletpoints helped me find my voice\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-05-22T12:00:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-04-03T12:59:04+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ffolliet.com\\\/staging\\\/1463\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":875,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ffolliet.com\\\/staging\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/79a90ae46194ce42b3eb9cc53dc61b56\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ffolliet.com\\\/staging\\\/1463\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ffolliet.com\\\/staging\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/05\\\/bella.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"guest blog\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/ffolliet.com\\\/staging\\\/1463\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ffolliet.com\\\/staging\\\/1463\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ffolliet.com\\\/staging\\\/1463\\\/\",\"name\":\"losing bulletpoints in presentations has helped me find my voice\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ffolliet.com\\\/staging\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ffolliet.com\\\/staging\\\/1463\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ffolliet.com\\\/staging\\\/1463\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ffolliet.com\\\/staging\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/05\\\/bella.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-05-22T12:00:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-04-03T12:59:04+00:00\",\"description\":\"Take that bold step to making changes to your presentation skills by using the knowledge that Ross shares on his website and in person \u2013 I promise you won\u2019t be disappointed. Losing the bullet points has helped me find my voice.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ffolliet.com\\\/staging\\\/1463\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/ffolliet.com\\\/staging\\\/1463\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ffolliet.com\\\/staging\\\/1463\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ffolliet.com\\\/staging\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/05\\\/bella.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ffolliet.com\\\/staging\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/05\\\/bella.jpg\",\"width\":768,\"height\":1024,\"caption\":\"losing bulletpoints\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ffolliet.com\\\/staging\\\/1463\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ffolliet.com\\\/staging\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"guest blog- losing bulletpoints helped me find my voice\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ffolliet.com\\\/staging\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ffolliet.com\\\/staging\\\/\",\"name\":\"p cubed presentations\",\"description\":\"every great presentation is the product of its message (p1), the supportive media (p2) and the delivery of that (p3).\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ffolliet.com\\\/staging\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/79a90ae46194ce42b3eb9cc53dc61b56\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ffolliet.com\\\/staging\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":[\"Person\",\"Organization\"],\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ffolliet.com\\\/staging\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/79a90ae46194ce42b3eb9cc53dc61b56\",\"name\":\"ffolliet\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ffolliet.com\\\/staging\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/03\\\/cropped-p-cubed-logo.webp\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ffolliet.com\\\/staging\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/03\\\/cropped-p-cubed-logo.webp\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ffolliet.com\\\/staging\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/03\\\/cropped-p-cubed-logo.webp\",\"width\":512,\"height\":512,\"caption\":\"ffolliet\"},\"logo\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ffolliet.com\\\/staging\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/03\\\/cropped-p-cubed-logo.webp\"},\"description\":\"At work I'm a Consultant Paediatric Surgeon. That involves Surgical Oncology, Neonatal Surgery and Trauma. There's also a lot of teaching and mentoring. None of this actually makes me particularly clever. I'm pretty heavily into improving presentations and long for the world to lay down the weapon of bulletpoints and embrace creative and engaging presentations. I lead presentation workshops and am currently working up a book on presentations. I did a wee thing at TEDx Stuttgart in 2014 of which I'm quite proud https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/watch?v=qFza3W87eDg Outside all of that I struggle to keep fit, cycle a bit and the odd triathlon. I'm a father, singer, laugher, learner, sharer, blogger, thinker, strummer and much more.\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/ffolliet.com\\\/staging\",\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/ffolliet\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ffolliet.com\\\/staging\\\/author\\\/ffolli5_wp\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"losing bulletpoints in presentations has helped me find my voice","description":"Take that bold step to making changes to your presentation skills by using the knowledge that Ross shares on his website and in person \u2013 I promise you won\u2019t be disappointed. Losing the bullet points has helped me find my voice.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/1463\/","og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"losing bulletpoints in presentations has helped me find my voice","og_description":"Take that bold step to making changes to your presentation skills by using the knowledge that Ross shares on his website and in person \u2013 I promise you won\u2019t be disappointed. Losing the bullet points has helped me find my voice.","og_url":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/1463\/","og_site_name":"p cubed presentations","article_published_time":"2018-05-22T12:00:30+00:00","article_modified_time":"2026-04-03T12:59:04+00:00","og_image":[{"width":768,"height":1024,"url":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/bella.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"ffolliet","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@ffolliet","twitter_site":"@ffolliet","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"ffolliet","Estimated reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/1463\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/1463\/"},"author":{"name":"ffolliet","@id":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/#\/schema\/person\/79a90ae46194ce42b3eb9cc53dc61b56"},"headline":"guest blog- losing bulletpoints helped me find my voice","datePublished":"2018-05-22T12:00:30+00:00","dateModified":"2026-04-03T12:59:04+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/1463\/"},"wordCount":875,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/#\/schema\/person\/79a90ae46194ce42b3eb9cc53dc61b56"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/1463\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/bella.jpg","articleSection":["guest blog"],"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/1463\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/1463\/","url":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/1463\/","name":"losing bulletpoints in presentations has helped me find my voice","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/1463\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/1463\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/bella.jpg","datePublished":"2018-05-22T12:00:30+00:00","dateModified":"2026-04-03T12:59:04+00:00","description":"Take that bold step to making changes to your presentation skills by using the knowledge that Ross shares on his website and in person \u2013 I promise you won\u2019t be disappointed. Losing the bullet points has helped me find my voice.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/1463\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/1463\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/1463\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/bella.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/bella.jpg","width":768,"height":1024,"caption":"losing bulletpoints"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/1463\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"guest blog- losing bulletpoints helped me find my voice"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/#website","url":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/","name":"p cubed presentations","description":"every great presentation is the product of its message (p1), the supportive media (p2) and the delivery of that (p3).","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/#\/schema\/person\/79a90ae46194ce42b3eb9cc53dc61b56"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":["Person","Organization"],"@id":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/#\/schema\/person\/79a90ae46194ce42b3eb9cc53dc61b56","name":"ffolliet","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/cropped-p-cubed-logo.webp","url":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/cropped-p-cubed-logo.webp","contentUrl":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/cropped-p-cubed-logo.webp","width":512,"height":512,"caption":"ffolliet"},"logo":{"@id":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/cropped-p-cubed-logo.webp"},"description":"At work I'm a Consultant Paediatric Surgeon. That involves Surgical Oncology, Neonatal Surgery and Trauma. There's also a lot of teaching and mentoring. None of this actually makes me particularly clever. I'm pretty heavily into improving presentations and long for the world to lay down the weapon of bulletpoints and embrace creative and engaging presentations. I lead presentation workshops and am currently working up a book on presentations. I did a wee thing at TEDx Stuttgart in 2014 of which I'm quite proud https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qFza3W87eDg Outside all of that I struggle to keep fit, cycle a bit and the odd triathlon. I'm a father, singer, laugher, learner, sharer, blogger, thinker, strummer and much more.","sameAs":["https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging","https:\/\/x.com\/ffolliet"],"url":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/author\/ffolli5_wp\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1463"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3567,"href":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions\/3567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}