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A collection of 539 issues

Dress Rehearsals

I saw Aussie Bill Granger [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Granger] cooking for a small Summer evening private dinner party hosted by a couple of girls that design in Sydney’s high-fashion world. Scallops to start, chicken salad then meringue. Having recently delivered a presentation as part of a team

Optimum Presentation Slot

I enjoyed an interesting discussion over a sushi lunch about when an upcoming presentation should be appointed. Everyone involved realised that two times to steadfastly avoid were the fabled graveyard shift and early bird slot. Why is it that any attendee will be at such a low ebb immediately after

1:18 Poolside Pres Prep

I delivered a draft presentation the other day. I had a 24 page document to condense into less than ten minutes. Thankfully for the draft run-through, I only needed to talk, not talk along to slides. An aligned point is that I was impressed that we’d managed to gain

5-Star Aspirations

I finally caught up with a pop-business reality show I’d been meaning to devote an hour of my downtime to. When the voiceover announced The Hotel Inspector [http://www.five.tv/programmes/lifestyle/the-hotel-inspector] as being born into the Forte dynasty with over 20 years of luxury hotelier experience,

Relentless Infomercial Zeal

Louis Theroux and his Weird Weekends [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Theroux%27s_Weird_Weekends]. Over a decade ago he poked his nose in the world of tv shopping channels, centring on an American station in Tampa. Our first exposure was to a room full of presenters, fully pumped

Picture Your Prospects

I got a terrific wine rack, made from the staves of a Steenberg Merlot barrel by a Cape Town oak artisan [http://www.thatoak.co.za]. He spends most weekends in various shopping centres standing with a display of his craft. As I saw with my own eyes, his wares

Presentation Fires

Wandering through a London rail terminus bookshop I was visually walloped by a huge planagram for a series of books that herald themselves as ‘brilliant’. Suspecting coyness not to be an issue, I knowingly thumbed for a few minutes through one called Brilliant Presentation. It’s written by Richard Hall

The Bullet Point Problem

A magazine piece [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8207849.stm] on the Beeb’s news site poses an interesting question. How many memorable powerpoint presentations have you ever sat through? Almost since the day I discovered slide creation software (it was so long ago that is was

Corrective Repetition

Presentation skills training is a rare privilege in the career of a rep. I myself had a solitary half-day course in some central Birmingham hotel given as part of a national roadshow by a national training company. And the truth about their views are that they added for me practically

Presentation Trinity

Enjoyed a few cheekies with a pal the other night, and before watching the awesomeness that is this years Champions League, he asked me what quick-fire tips I could give him for how to make an effective presentation. With only a blink’s worth of thinking time, and under 60secs