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 😉
Christ'l Joris is voorzitter van de raad van bestuur van ETAP. Zij leerde een les van haar vader die ze altijd onthouden heeft: "Wees zelfzeker, een beetje zelfvertrouwen kan geen kwaad. Je moet zorgen dat je gezien wordt, niet in één of ander spektakel, maar...
Inge Geerdens won in 2006 een internationale award voor beste 'elevator pitch'. Ze stond in de finale met achttien anderen waaronder 2 Belgen. Uit vijfhonderd deelnemers die een business plan indienden, werd zij verkozen tot eindwinnaar. Succesvol pitchen staat of valt voor haar met de...
At the time I interview Tanuja Randery she is Managing Director in London for COLT Telecom. Her story is a great example how presentations can influence a career. It was due to a presentation she started at McKinsey. The Sales Director was in the audience...
I got all emotional yesterday… I had a workshop for 11 people. One of the participants, Paul, didn’t like to present at all and that showed in his first exercise. He did not look at the audience at all though focussed on the ground, and...
Yesterday I heard a great story from a manager at the European Commission. He was invited to be one of the speakers at a conference in the South of France. He was originally speaker number 10…but the organization had decided at the last moment to let...
Believe it or not, the easiest thing you can do when confronting an audience is to stand as close to them as possible. It might sound frightening but just try it out…. Every audience has an energy and most of the time they are really...
I had the pleasure to see Jef Staes presenting this week! What a speaker… But what strikes me most is this: he sinned against so many ‘presentation rules’ and still managed to leave a lasting impression. He sat down, something I would never recommend. He...
Some 2 years ago I learned what pecha kucha was all about, a presentation style with a fixed number of 20 slides, these slides can only contain images and the slides change every 20 seconds. This reduces every presentation to some 6 minutes and 40...