With this blog I mainly want to inspire you. The posts are based on my experience. It can be a coaching I did, a presentation I have done, a TED talk or another youtube movie I have seen from which you can learn. The posts cover the topics that are very important for me like storytelling, how to deal with stress, body language, how to use PowerPoint, pitching and presenting to the board. The posts are in English or Dutch. As I have been blogging for years on this topic you will see that the oldest posts go way back to 2008 when I started writing articles on this topic. I have transferred all my posts to this website which unfortunately means that I have lost all the comments and reactions which is a pity but hey…you can leave new comments right 😉
The question I ask most often when I coach people who need to present or communicate something is this: "Why are you there and even more important, WHY is it important that the audience should listen to you". In other words, what's in it for...
[video width="1280" height="720" mp4="https://sylvieverleye.be/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/The-science-of-stage-fright-and-how-to-overcome-it-Mikael-Cho.mp4"][/video] This video explains in a very nice, clear way why we have stage fright. I always explain to participants that the reason why we experience stress before speaking is because all eyes are fixed on us (most don't like that) and we...
"Ha, it is as if I am conducting an orchestra", was my first thought when someone sent me this picture of me doing a workshop :-) And it reminded me that I used to tell this to participants: 'when you talk to an audience YOU...
I just finished a Pecha Kucha style PPT for a customer. Pecha Kucha is a PPT presentation style with a specific format. You always have 20 slides. Every slide is a picture. No words or just a message on the picture. And the PPT automatically...
When I'm doing workshops I always ask feedback from the other participants on exercises they did. So today somebody gave the remark that the participant was already talking or started the presentation while walking upfront. She asked whether this was actually good or bad. Relying...
Vandaag waren er 9 dames en 1 man in de workshop. Allemaal vrij jonge mensen. Bij de kennismaking bleek dat zowat alle dames schrik hadden om voor een publiek te spreken. Eén dame vertelde mij dat ze wel vaker zou kunnen spreken maar ze laat...
Yesterday I gave a workshop to 10 people and 1 of the participants had been in my training 2 years before. I had forgotten, I had not recognized him...
I am currently doing a workshop and this is a question of 2 of the participants. They did a presentation together and some things went wrong. Like the microphones...
Dit is niet mijn uitspraak maar wel eentje van Reinout Van Zandycke die zich de afgelopen acht jaar specialiseerde in overtuigingspsychologie. Ik was deze week spreker op de OMConference en hij was één van de andere sprekers met een topic die me wel interesseerde 'hoe technieken...
Often people ask me where to find pictures for their presentation because google images is not your best choice! Often pictures are too small (you need high quality) and it is not always clear whether you can actually use the pictures or not. Be careful...