How to prepare for your Q&A session
In 2001, I was a candidate for the Green Party in New Zealand. I spent a ton of time preparing for the “Meet the Candidate” meetings. But I didn’t spend most of my time on planning my presentation. I spent most of my time preparing for the Q&A. I...
7 Mental Strategies to Help you Recover from a Presentation Disaster
The complaints started within the first half hour of the course: “I don’t understand what this means”. “This is too hard for us”. “This doesn’t work for the presentations that I have to do.” By the end of the day I was...
7 Tips to Ensure You’re Understood when Speaking to a Foreign Audience
This is a guest post by Leon Potgieter. “Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages.” – Dave Barry The...
What to do when you’re losing your audience
Your audience’s attention will fade over time unless you take specific steps to keep them engaged. Here’s a graph showing the attention of university students during a 50 minute lecture – where the lecturer lost his audience (Reference: Hartley J and Davies I “Note...
Six Secrets from a Professional Speaker on Audience Participation
Last week I wrote about the challenge of the third era of presenting: the era of the audience. Kristin Arnold has written a provocative and intensely practical book Boring to Bravo on how to meet that challenge by encouraging audience participation . The philosophy of...Got an important presentation coming up?
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