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How to Use Strategic Storytelling in Business Presentations

How to Use Strategic Storytelling in Business Presentations

How often have you sat through a business presentation where an executive has presented meticulously-researched data only to be met with an unconvinced or even disinterested audience? If you’ve ever tried to persuade someone using a purely logical argument, you know it can be a challenge to inspire them to act on the basis of […]

Filler words and how to reduce them in a presentation?

Filler words and how to reduce them in a presentation?

Ah, um, er, let’s see. Uh it’s like this. Okay. Well kind of. You know. What I mean is. Right. These are all guttural clutter or filler words and phrases that litter our everyday speech. They form a part of our unique ‘language personality’.  We all have our subconscious favourites and probably use them a […]

What to do with your hands while presenting

What to do with your hands while presenting

Have your hands been in ‘communication lock down’ for the past 2 years? Resting gently on your desk while you Zoom your way through the business day. Perhaps cradling a comforting warm beverage. Well, it’s time to put them into action again as one of your strongest communication tools. It’s crazy how quickly we forget […]

How To Present Like Steve Jobs | The Apple Way of Presenting

How To Present Like Steve Jobs | The Apple Way of Presenting

Team presentations can change the fortunes of a business. Fifteen years ago now, on January 7, 2007, an audience of tech journalists, influencers and industry luminaries wait in hushed silence as the lights fell in San Francisco’s Moscone Center. For months, rumours had swirled of a new tech product that would revolutionise the industry. Into […]

How to handle questions during a presentation

How to handle questions during a presentation

You’ve prepared your presentation, practised it a dozen times and you’re ready to go. But what’s the one thing that might throw you off course, undermine your confidence and your credibility? An awkward question. One that comes at an inopportune time, or one that’s difficult, or one with a complicated answer, or one you can’t […]

How to transfer your skills back from online to in-person presenting.

How to transfer your skills back from online to in-person presenting.

Have you just mastered the art of online presenting now to be faced with the somewhat daunting task of presenting in person once again? For the past 2 years we’ve all been focussed on improving our online presentation skills and no doubt suffering some ‘Zoom fatigue’ along the way. As office working becomes increasingly part […]

How to Effectively Calm Your Nerves Before & During a Presentation

How to Effectively Calm Your Nerves Before & During a Presentation

Here are some simple and practical tips, not only on how to calm nerves before a presentation but also during a presentation, shared by our Managing Director, Belinda Huckle. Surveys have shown time and again that the fear of public speaking (scientifically known as glossophobia) is the number one phobia among adults. So, if you […]

How To Present To Senior Executives & The Board

How To Present To Senior Executives & The Board

It can be nerve-wracking the first time you have to present to senior management, a group of senior executives or the Board. You want to be able to walk out of the room with more credibility than you came in with. It’s an opportunity to demonstrate that you are knowledgeable about your subject, and that […]

How to successfully plan and deliver a hybrid meeting or presentation

How to successfully plan and deliver a hybrid meeting or presentation

Do you remember those seemingly endless hours spent commuting to the office day after day? Did you long for greater flexibility and the chance to work from home? Well, fast forward 16 months and it’s likely you are sick and tired of working from your kitchen table and can’t wait to get back to the […]

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