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...
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...
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...
It's nearly that time of the year again, the new year's speech. Just this morning I got the idea to write on this topic because someone in the training shared his experience. I always start the second day of a training asking participants if they...
In the introduction you ideally answer the question: ‘why is it important for the audience to listen to that presentation’. In other words ‘what’s in it for the audience ?’… Apart from the opening I advise everyone to think clearly about their last sentence. This...
Working as a newsanchor for television for 7 years and especially coaching young people to become a newsanchor learned me a lot about body language. The more I coached these people how to sit in front of the camera the less natural it looked. It...
It still amazes me that so many people are convinced that a presentation can only be successful when humor is added. Sure, humor is great but not whatever humor. Let me share with you a coaching I did in June. It was for someone who...