Mind your language
Are falling into the trap of using jargon in your presentations because you are concentrating too much on your slide technology and not enough on your choice of words to convey your message? Try these everyday alternatives to some common jargon phrases.
July 20, 2009
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Is your presentation really necessary?
Is your presentation really necessary?
This may seem a strange question to ask in a blog about perfecting your presentation style, content and delivery but it is the first thing you should think about when you begin to prepare for a presentation. There are two reasons:
1. Every presentation you give should serve a real purpose – [...]
July 3, 2009
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Taking advantage of ways to involve the audience
The other week, I was at a big, two-day conference. Hundreds of people were there and the venue was a dedicated conference centre with whizzy technology and all the latest gizmos for audience participation you could want. But what struck me was how little advantage most conference speakers took of the tools available to them to make a bigger and better impact on the audience.
Presenting messages in a visual way through slides or video backs up what speakers say and improves audience understanding and retention by as much as four times.
June 25, 2009
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Persuade with confidence
If your purpose in presenting is to persuade someone to a particular point of view of convince them to take your advice, they most important thing you need to be able to display is confidence, suggests new research.
A study in which volunteers could ‘buy’ advice from other volunteers to help them answer a question, found [...]
June 8, 2009
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Perfect your presentations
Hello. Hilary Robertson from Communicate That here. Welcome to my Perfect Presenting members’ forum. Presentations are becoming an increasingly common form of communication at work. You might be preparing a presentation for a job you hope to get. You might be pitching for new business. You might be presenting the latest sales figures to your [...]
May 13, 2009
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