Presentation Tip: Dealing with Large Rooms
Sometimes the room is so large that the screen dwarfs the presenter. Your slides...
Author Archives: Dermot Greene
Presentation Tip: The Magic Button
Probably one of the most powerful tools in your presentation arsenal hides innocently behind...
Presentation Tip: Allow Your Audience Time To Read And Think
A common mistake made by presenters is that they click onto a new slide...
Presentation Q&A: Using Other People’s Slides
Question: What if you’re using other people’s slides for one section of your presentation,...
What We Can Learn About Presenting From TED Talks
Let’s try an experiment. Choose a video at random from the ted.com homepage Watch...
Presentation Q&A: Handouts
Question: Which is better? Giving the handout before or after the presentation? Answer: In...
Presentation Tip: Don’t Read Your Slides
One very common breaking of connection with the audience occurs in presentations where the...
Speaking Masterclass: Ernesto Sirolli – Want to Help Someone? Shut Up and Listen
“Planning is the kiss of death of entrepreneurship” says Ernesto Sirolli and he couldn’t...
Presentation Tip: How NOT to End a Presentation
How much time and thought do you put into how you end your presentations?...
# 1 Rule for Slide Design
For many people, the first thing they do when asked to do a presentation...
Presentation Tip: Practice Practice Practice
One of the big reasons why so many people don’t connect with their audience...
GeekFeast: Pitching, Sinning, Answering and Colouring
Tips on How to Pitch Tips on How to Pitch from Project Presentation View...
Speaking Masterclass: Lewis Pugh – Swimming at the North Pole
It takes a very special type of person to swim at the North Pole…...
Add a Little Magic To Your Presentation
What’s the difference between a good speaker and great speaker? Good speakers don’t bore...
Speaking Masterclass: Chris Jordan – Turning Powerful Stats Into Art
Chris Jordan combines everyday objects with big numbers and statistics to create powerful images...
Speaking Masterclass: Tan Le – My Immigration Story
No gimmicks, no powerpoint, just a story and when it comes to storytelling, nothing...
Speaking Masterclass: Jane McGonigal – Gaming Can Make a Better World
With her goal to try to make it as easy to save the world...
Speaking Masterclass: Ramona Pierson – An Unexpected Place of Healing
An amazing story of survival, growth and the power of community
Speaking Masterclass: Chimamanda Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story
Stories are powerful, they shape the way we see the world, how we look...
The Geekspeak Manifesto: All Techies to Speak Better Than Steve Jobs
Let’s work together to banish the image that geeks cannot communicate! We work on...