by Olivia Mitchell | Presentation skills
This is a big meaty post with 15 ways to improve your presentations. These ideas are designed to challenge you to stretch yourself. With each idea I’ve pointed you to further resources from fellow presentation bloggers or from my own archives. Choose one or two...
by Olivia Mitchell | Content
We ask people on our courses what they remember from the last presentation they went to. Typically they either remember nothing, or a random point or story that the presenter told. So when you’re presenting, take charge of what your audience remembers. Here...
by Olivia Mitchell | Content, Presentation critiques
Al Gore’s TED talk is chock-full of evidence to make his point. I’m using the word evidence here loosely to include all the techniques he uses. There’s stories, examples, analogies, quotes, metaphors, and statistics. I did an analysis of how much of...
by Olivia Mitchell | Content, Presentation critiques
Effective presentations have a structure and flow. An effective way of building the structure of your presentation is to imagine yourself answering the audience’s questions. This is what Al Gore did in his latest TED talk. First you need to craft your...
by Olivia Mitchell | Content, Presentation critiques
An effective way to plan a presentation is to start by crafting the Key Message. The Key Message is the one thing you most want your audience to remember. You could also think of it as the five second version of your presentation. Al Gore’s latest talk at TED...