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The most engaging presenters are…
Artifice and performance are the enemies of engagement I gave a talk yesterday on presentation and facilitation skills, and one of the key themes was the importance of shifting our focus away from...
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How to start – and end – your next presentation with impact!
Begin with the ending, end with the beginning The best presentations are structured like a really good story, with a clear beginning, middle and end. Dale Carnegie’s famous axiom offers a skeleton...
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Tell more stories!
“Every person is like all others, some others, and no others.” Night air, pine trees, starlight and throw another log on the fire. Sitting around a fire-pit makes us all storytellers. This...
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3 Tips for Presenting to Challenging Audiences
If you want to get out alive, never swim against the current A few weeks ago a colleague shared a harrowing story of a presentation gone wrong. It was one of those scenarios where you don’t anticipate...
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How the best slideware equals poetry
Honesty is the best poetry I’ve written elsewhere about “PowerPoint Best Practices” and why slide design can make the world a happier place. Images are like poems: their economy is such that they...
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Five Big Questions for Creating Learner Engagement
How do you want to travel? Presentations and workshops are particular journeys for all participants – the facilitator included. From an overall accountability perspective, responsibility for the...
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Stage Presence for Presenters
Find your light I’ve been collaborating with a colleague who teaches performing arts in putting together a “stage presence” workshop for educators and presenters. Our joint approach was sparked by...
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5 Questions to Foster Learner Engagement
How do you want to travel? Lately I’ve been thinking about individual accountability for engaging in learning, and the delicacy in creating a climate where each person in the room feels as...
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The Five Habits of Highly Effective Professors
What does it take to be a wizard inside and outside the classroom? 1. Get excited Everything in the world is inherently interesting. And everything in the world can be made incredibly boring. If I’m...
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TEDx – Radical Self-Leadership: Banish self-doubt with 3 essential practices
What does it take to banish self-doubt and embrace radical self-leadership?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtFUoA_0fwE In October of 2019 I had the honour of joining an extraordinary roster of thought...
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