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...
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...
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...
Toen ik Dominique interviewde was ze Managing Director van Unilever België. Zij presenteert ontzettend veel, en merkte ook op dat zo goed als elke presentatie ondersteund wordt door een PowerPoint. Dominique betwijfelt echter of dit altijd wel nodig is. Zij zegt: "Ik wil vooral kernboodschappen...
I discovered a new way to help speakers with the introduction of their presentation. The problem is that most speakers just don't think of their first words and then they switch to an automatic pilot saying 'today I am going to talk to you about...
Last month I was on a 2 day training with a customer in France. It was for a huge group of young people and they were welcomed by 2 senior managers. The first manager opened the training and then gave the floor to the second manager...
I am a very happy coach today. A few weeks ago I have coached someone who has dyslexia but he had to talk to a very big audience and did not look forward to that event at all. He had presented to big audiences but...
This picture you see is my youngest son. The picture was taken last summer at the Pukkelpop festival. He was 8 years old then and it was his second festival because the year before I had taken him to Werchter. I truly believe he was...