You want your audience to be in rapport with you for as much of your presentation as possible. And you may not realise that they are certain words that can cause your audience to disagree with you. They are: ‘OK?’, ‘Basically’, ‘Obviously’, ‘You know?’, and
I’m a pitch coach for people who are trying to win big, multi-million-dollar deals and I also help CEOs and their executive teams present at the highest levels and to the biggest audiences. It may surprise you that even CEOs report that they fear public
It’s common to fear public speaking. The main reason people fear public speaking is that you are worried about making a mistake in front of people. No one wants to look silly or foolish in front of their bosses and colleagues, or clients. When you
We’ve all been there! The presenter puts up the slide with 800 words and 5- point font and they say the famous words, “I know you can’t read this, but I’m going to show you anyway!” Ha! Ha! OMG! Don’t do this! There are
An engineer in one of my training programs said to the group (and to me), ‘But I’m an engineer Michelle, I don’t have to be interesting!’ Ahhh! Are you serious? This is a classic misconception! This engineer is not the first person in a program
No one is happy all the time, that’s for sure. And honestly, no one expects you to be happy all the time either – unless you are the presenter at a meeting! When you are running a meeting, delivering a presentation or a speech
It’s pretty common to feel a bit like an imposter when presenting your ideas in a meeting, training room or conference situation. Unfortunately, going into your meeting with the feeling that you don’t belong, or you’re not quite ready is only going to harm your
Australian research lead by Professor John Sweller at the University of NSW has uncovered a theory known as the “cognitive load theory”. It suggests that the human brain processes and retains more information if it is digested in either verbal or written formats, not both
Lots of people create their slides directly from the information in the original report. In other words, they do the work, create a report about that matter, and then transfer the information (the rationale, all the bullet points, the graphs and charts and justification with
The average slide has 50 words on it. We know from the science of NLP that the conscious mind can only remember seven, plus or minus two. That’s between 5 and 9 things. So, at best your text-heavy slides are confusing, at worst they are