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...
"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...
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...