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 😉
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...
A few days ago I did a training and I was really astonished. We were talking about body language and everybody had just done a first exercise where they just shared an anecdote. I don't even listen that much to the content when they do...
Ik had vanmorgen even een moeilijk 'mama/professional me' momentje...
I just read this article by Kyle Tanner and I absolutely want to share it with you as I agree with him 100%. I have seen too many speakers fail on stage because of lack of preparation. Please speakers on events, I love to guide...
The term minimalism is also used to describe a trend in design and architecture where in the subject is reduced to its necessary elements. Minimalist design has been highly influenced by Japanese traditional design and architecture. In addition, the work of De Stijl artists is...
Yesterday I gave a training in The Netherlands and as usual one of the topics was the timing of a presentation. You think you have 20 minutes for the presentation, though reality is you only have 10 minutes. For Prime Minister Balkenende it was even worse....
Yesterday I did a follow up coaching. It was a presentation with slides the speaker had created himself. Beautiful slides, great introduction but what I noticed was that he clicked to a next slide and then talked. You might think that this is fine though...