presentations

[http://sustainability.oce.com] Disclaimer: I’ve got quite a bit of time for this outfit, having got to know how many of its talented salespeople operate in the latter half of the last decade. Working recently on a completely unrelated project, I came across their sustainability ambitions. And tremendous

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2012/08/day-7-top-4-nations.jpg] Another hat-tip to the Times’ graphics department. Who is the top country day-by-day? Well, on Days 7 & 9  Team GB clearly punched above their weight! [https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2012/08/day-9-top-4-nations.jpg] This slant on the traditional

As you probably know, I’m always on the lookout for great ways to display info. Methods that ditch pies, bars and bullets. Courtesy of the Times, here’s the first of two neat new tricks. Here’s Team GB’s performance against target on the medal front. [https://salespodder.

How do you become the laughing stock of the world? Despite a truly brilliant performance? Well, you massage the figures, that’s how. Here’s the London 2012 Olympics Day 13 medal table example, according to all Americans; [https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2012/08/embarrassing-us-medal-spin.jpg] To make

A salesteam I recently worked with had all traipsed off for a day of presentation skills training. They were a little underwhelmed. It’s not that the training was considered ‘bad’. And when the guys took me through the materials, I thought there was some good points in there. It’

What would you have searched for with Seven Billion Quid? Well, those boffins at Cern in Geneva seem to have used the cash to go and find the wotnot that gives us ‘mass’. I know this because I saw the resulting powerpoint slide. It was duly plastered all over the

Cookery shows are all over the telly. Could anyone ever beat the Floyd? Anyway, one I caught recently claimed to show you how to make restaurant calibre dishes in your own home. The chap then presented his first meal. It was of course a masterpiece. Impossible to recreate in your