Pecha Kucha was developed as a presentation format to allow design and creative types to share their passions and show off their work. You have to present with 20 slides and each slide is shown for 20 seconds. It has the great advantage of keeping presentations short and concise – perhaps accounting for it’s popularity around the world. Photo by Olly Barrett This week I went to my first Pecha Kucha night in Wellington, New Zealand.

With the explosion in popularity of microblogging tools like Twitter , presenters are now faced with the possibility, or even likelihood, that some members of their audience will be tweeting (posting on Twitter) during the presentation. Initially, that idea is off-putting to many presenters. Or "What if they say something negative about me or my They sputter, "But that means the audience won't be paying attention to me." Or "It will be distracting for me to see everybody typing on their iPhones."

Participants in my presentation skills workshops typically cite concerns about not being credible to the audience as one of the key contributors to their presentation nervousness and anxiety. In presentations , we can define credible to mean that your audience will trust you are providing relevant information and you deserve to be listened to because you have sufficient knowledge of the subject matter. This worry gets expressed in a variety of ways: I

Most of you would likely say that speaking on a panel is more difficult and requires more preparation than moderating one. couple of weeks before the panel presentation, the moderator should meet with the panelists (conference call is fine, although face-to-face is better, if feasible), review the objectives of the presentation, the general framework and share an overview of the questions and tips for being a successful panelist . The goal of And I'd say you're incorrect. The role of the moderator is critical to the success of the panel, success being defined as how

                                                                                                                             I'm pretty sure that no one sets out to give a boring presentation. Yet why do so many presentations end up that way? There are a number of classic presentation behaviors that will send you off the charts on the boring meter. Now these aren't mysterious things that we don't know are boring. They are simply behaviors we don't pay enough attention to.

I've just returned from two trips to Africa where I spoke and ran workshops at the Women in Management and Business  (WimBIZ) conference (Lagos, Nigeria) and the Kenyan Association of Women Business Owners  (KAWBO) conference (Nairobi, Kenya). presentation style, format and approach. The wife of the Governor of Lagos They were both amazing experiences and I thought it would be interesting to make some comparisons between African and U.S. STYLE

Be Prepared    Just because you are sharing the limelight with other people, don't think this means you don't have to be rigorous in your preparation. Don't Use Slides    A panel is more like a dialogue or conversation among the panelists and the audience than it is a series of stand-alone presentations. Tags: Presentation Tips and Techniques Speaking on Panels business presentations speaking on a pane I recently attended my local ASTD chapter meeting ( www.dcastd.org ) where a panel of CLOs talked about the role of global learning in tough economic times. I'm not

Tips on How to Give an Acceptance Speech by Patricia Fripp, CSP, CPAE As a Business Presentation Expert many of my clients ask advice on accepting an award. We worked together to come up with a gracious acceptance speech, still funny, but one that would leave everyone present feeling great about the evening, the award, and the organization. Sooner or later, you're probably going to be presented with How Do You Accept an Award? Hope this is helpful for you.

So the work you should do on your upcoming speech or presentation continues to get pushed to the bottom of the list. You know it's not, yet you emphasize how busy you are and how you simply could not have done it any other way. As the advocate for the audience , I say to you: "sorry, but if you couldn't make time to prepare for us, why should we make time to listen to you?" Phone calls, emails, clients in your office--so many demands on your time and energy that are right in front of you. Finally at the very last minute you carve out a few hours to pull your thoughts

While the physical preparation is daunting, it’s the mental preparation that interests me as a speech coach.  Given that speaking in public is consistently voted people’s #1 fear, giving a presentation is outside the ordinary as well.  Professional speakers seek the jitters that amateur presenters try to avoid.  As a speech coach in Pittsburgh, I’m doing what everyone else in Pittsburgh is doing on June 2nd in 2008:  cheering for the Pittsburgh Penguins in their unlikely fight for the Stanley Cup.  Commentators are saying the Pens Game 5 performance