Your Business Presentation Hero is in the Audience
For a heroic presentation, add story moments to the mix and identify your presentation hero. You should incorporate story moments throughout your business presentation to maintain momentum and to...
View ArticleWho is “The Business Presenter?”
Before computers. Before television and radio. Before loudspeakers . . . Before all of our artificial means of expanding the reach of our unaided voices, there was the public speaker. The “business...
View ArticleYour Presentation Audience . . . Who? Your AUDIENCE
As much as some of us might seek the adulation of the crowd, it’s wise to remember that your presentation isn’t about you, although our self-indulgence can sometimes make it seem so. It’s all about...
View ArticleQuintilian
Quintilian was the greatest presentation coach to ever stride the streets of Rome during the reigns of Nero, Vespasian, Titus, Domitian. And Rome had quite a few presentation coaches at the time,...
View ArticleFocus on Your Audience
Too often, we can find ourselves rambling or roaming in a presentation, and this usually means we’ve strayed from the hoary principle of focus on your audience. We haven’t established a tightly focused...
View ArticleTelling Your Story for Personal Competitive Advantage
One of the most important business presenting occasions you face in your career is the job interview. In the interview, you present for your most important client – you. And the question I’m asked most...
View ArticleThe Most Important Point of Your Presentation
I advocate storytelling in your business presentations, and your story should embody your presentation’s Most Important Point. Stories are powerful tools of communication that can capture complex ideas...
View ArticleKnow your Audience . . . for an Especially Powerful Presentation
“Know your audience” is an hoary folk-wisdom kind of phrase that we’ve all heard and said at some point. But what does it mean? It’s almost like an incantation, similar to that trusty chestnut make eye...
View ArticleA Great Business Presenter . . . the Best of All Time?
Quintilian was the greatest presentation coach to ever stride the streets of Rome during the reigns of Nero, Vespasian, Titus, Domitian . . . and was a great business presenter. Of course, Rome had...
View ArticleThere ARE no Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs
For some reason known only to the deities of publishing, Apple’s late former CEO Steve Jobs was considered a great business presenter, and a best-selling book even says so: The Presentation Secrets of...
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