Insights and inspiration for commanding the stage. From keynotes to panels, discover what makes speakers stand out.
AI has become a regular topic of conversation for us at SecondNature. Over the past few months, it’s increasingly come up with clients and participants, and in fact, it’s now rare to run a workshop without someone asking where AI fits into the presentation preparation process.
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At SecondNature, it’s interesting how the questions we are being asked have changed over the last few months. The C-19 pandemic meant most of us spent a lot of time retraining ourselves to present effectively online. Although there were inevitable downsides to this, ‘Teams/Zoom fatigue’ being the primary one, it did offer us the opportunity […]
Now that ‘in-person’ events are back in full swing many of us are organising and attending conferences, both internal and external for the first time in a few years. One of the key components of modern-day conferences is the panel discussion. So not surprisingly, we are increasingly being asked about the dos and don’ts of […]
In our latest series on presenting at a conference for the first time, which people have said was very useful; many people have also asked us how we could help them with their stage fright too. Stage fright, pre-presentation nerves, performance anxiety, a fear of public speaking, glossophobia, call it what you will, is THE […]
