In a ‘living with COVID’ world, we’ll see many more online meetings and online presentations. That means presentations skills are more important than ever before, especially when you’re presenting to an ‘invisible audience’ who have so many other distractions in ... 
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What’s your favourite TED Talk?
If you’re a fan of TED, I’m sure you will have your favourites. Mine include some of the classics, such as:
Ken Robinson talking about creativity and education
Dame Stephanie Shirley talking about ambitious women (that’s... 
I was recently speaking at a company’s annnual conference, which they were running online again this year because of COVID-19 uncertainty. The speaker before me was the CEO, who made a brief but highly engaging presentation. The content was what you would expect – summary of last year, top-... 
For more than two years, we’ve been running online meetings, attending online meetings, making online presentations, and participating as audience members in online presentations. And I’m sure we’ve all seen the good, the bad, and the ugly.
I’ve been delivering online presentations since 20... 
Have you ever found yourself in an online meeting that was so boring you wanted to crawl under the table? It’s hard to keep your team engaged during a long meeting, and that’s even more difficult in an online meeting. Your online meetings need to be interesting and engaging. If they are... 
When you’re presenting in person, you can get away with a weak slide deck because it’s only a visual aid. But with an online presentation, your slides ARE your visuals, and your slide deck makes a huge difference to your impact.
Text-heavy slides and bullet lists bore your audience and ... 
We’re bombarded by more information than ever before, so we all need to be able to cut through the clutter and deliver our messages with more impact.
We’ve all sat through business presentations that were so mind-numbingly boring you lost the will to live! Hmm … You might have eve... 
Videoconferencing, online meetings, telepresence and other collaboration technology are gaining traction. That doesn’t mean the in-person conference is obsolete – but its role has changed. Some of the benefits of coming together for a conference can be achieved just as effectively in other ... 
Videoconferencing, online meetings, telepresence and other collaboration technology are gaining traction. Does that mean the in-person conference is obsolete? No – not by a long way! But its role has changed. In this podcast episode, discover the top trends affecting our professional and personal... 
I speak at a lot of conferences, so I see a lot of presentations from other speakers. Those who aren’t professional speakers often make the mistake of cluttering up their presentations with too much data – such as statistics, graphs, and other numbers. Of course, numbers are important, ... 8 Windich Place,
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