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Crafting A Presentation

As my recent blogs have described, I’m in the middle of prepping a big presentation at the moment. I had a discussion the other day about how you construct such an event. There are many common errors that you can avoid. A major one is structural. In our case

Effective Business Writing Trio

I came across this three-part plan accredited to a speaker named Tom Ehrenfeld. > TheWHAT? is (& explains) the content. TheSO WHAT? is why the content matters. And thePROVE IT! provides the credibility. One of my crusades rails against the all too often woeful documentation produced by salespeople. Applying even this simple

Acetate Ideas

I recently found a folder of work I did almost twenty-five years ago. It’s now been packed off to recycling. I couldn’t resist a rummage, and found a batch of old-fashioned ‘transparencies’. In the days before omnipresent computers, if you wanted to pre-prepare slides, you could go through

Engaging Question

Here’s a reminder of a well-used and highly effective presentation tactic. This time it comes via dusty old notes from a 1998 Chicago conference I attended. The speaker was then assessing sales system projects, called Timothy McMahon at Labyrinth Research. Outlining his optimal ‘7-step implementation plan’, he sought to

World Cup Host Bids

The Machiavellian world of sport geopolitics dealt a harsh lesson through England’s shattered 2018 World Cup hosting hopes on Thursday. It’s not about the bid. You can write the best Proposal document. You can deliver the most “remarkable” presentation. Yet you can still lose your ‘sale’. One particular

Big Picture Wordle

I came across this image in reference to what the creators saw as a disastrous Copenhagen cimate change summit. There’s just over a hundred words highlighted here. [http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/datablog/2009/dec/08/copenhagen-climate-summit-text-danish-wordle] I was immediately smitten. What a brilliant idea. Surely you must

Top 5 Toronto Presentation Mistakes

In the dung-filled field of abundant presentation skill insight on the web, here’s a rare blossoming rose. It comes from Canadian @jessedee [http://twitter.com/JESSEDEE]. His website is well worth a visit, in particular to view his slideshared You Suck At Powerpoint – 5 Shocking Design Mistakes You Need

Alternative Slide Ideas From A Green Presentation

I helped a marketing expert fine tune a presentation recently. The pitch sought to build on sustainability issues. Leaving aside the structural and strategic advice (for instance they’d developed 82 slides in total planning to show no more than 20 in any one sitting which I suggested may still

Trim That Pitch

I frequently blog on the virtues of short, sharp, snappy pitching. Here’s yet more corroboratory evidence. Workshopped to advise tech start-ups how to deal with the press and opinion forming bloggers, three of this Boston USA conference’s [http://masstlcun.blogspot.com/] 43 tips are useful general pitching pointers.

Auto-Complete Comparison

Here’s an idea worth ten minutes brief exploration next time you prepare a presentation. The suggestions of Google’s auto-completion capability can be neatly graphed [http://hint.fm/seer/]. Positioned properly, it can be lovely jumping-off point for entertaining conversation which also discreetly follows your chosen path. By way