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What are the most common presentation pitfalls to watch out for?

What are the most common presentation pitfalls to watch out for?

How many times have you sat through a presentation and found your mind wandering off after only a few minutes? Probably more often than you should. There are many reasons why a presentation, or a presenter, can fail to hit the mark. These include a lack of focus, under preparation, failure to answer the ‘So […]

How to hook your audience at the start of a presentation

How to hook your audience at the start of a presentation

We all know how important it is to hook the audience in at the very start of the presentation. It only takes 30-60 seconds for your audience to decide whether they are interested in you and what you might have to say, and research tells us that the first 8 seconds are the most important. […]

Become a better listener: strategies for effective communication

Become a better listener: strategies for effective communication

To become a great leader you need to be a great communicator. Great communicators possess the ability to engage audiences, implement change, and motivate and inspire those around them. But there is another important quality needed to become an effective communicator and leader. The ability to listen.  Listening is something that many of us take […]

Is It Best to Present With or Without Notes?

Is It Best to Present With or Without Notes?

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 […]

How to Speak With Gravitas While Being Your Authentic Self

How to Speak With Gravitas While Being Your Authentic Self

We know it the instant we see it. That certain ‘je ne sais quoi.’ Those people who seem to have a natural ability to command the room, captivate an audience, and have listeners hanging off their every word.  Sir David Attenborough, Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey and Barrack Obama, to name just a few, have all […]

6 practical tips to help you overcome stage fright when presenting

6 practical tips to help you overcome stage fright when presenting

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 […]

Presenting at a conference for the first time

Presenting at a conference for the first time

It’s probably safe to say that you’ve had some experience of presenting already; to colleagues, prospective clients, or perhaps to the board. But presenting at a conference for the first time is something different, whether you’ve asked to do it, or been invited, or nominated to do it: by your boss, a colleague, a client, […]

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