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How to… Be Mesmerising
Presentation Guru
APRIL 10, 2018
As a presenter, you have one simple goal: get information which is in your brain into those of your audience. So that they feel, think, or do something differently.
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Why It Pays to Invest in a Professional Presentation
Presentation Guru
APRIL 17, 2018
Why would you need to pay a professional presentation designer to create your next presentation? Everyone knows PowerPoint, right? Well they may, but do they know it well enough, and do they know what makes a winning presentation?
How to Add Video into Text and Shapes in PowerPoint
Presentation Guru
APRIL 12, 2018
Ever wondered how to do those cool slides where the video plays inside either text or shapes? Wonder no more, because we’ve put together this short video showing you exactly how to do it.
The Three Dimensions of Feedback: Poison, Chocolate and Lemon
Presentation Guru
MARCH 27, 2018
Giving feedback should not be just a tick box exercise. Not all feedback is created equal and in this article, Florian Mueck describes the different types you may give and how, without proper consideration, some may actually be doing more harm than good.
10 Tips for…Using Your Voice
Presentation Guru
APRIL 19, 2018
It’s your instrument and most people don’t really know how to use it. But it can greatly influence people’s perception of both you and your brand. Projecting your voice is so much more than just speaking louder. Follow these 10 tips to make sure they hear you – in every sense.…
How to Add Images into Your Text in PowerPoint
Presentation Guru
MARCH 29, 2018
There are a several Text Fill options in PowerPoint that work pretty much the same way as the Shape Fill options do.
10 Tips for…Freshening Your Delivery
Presentation Guru
APRIL 5, 2018
You are, most often, the final ingredient that will make a presentation, that is good on paper, go well in the real world. Here are 10 tips that will add that little extra something to your delivery and will ensure that your presentation stands out for the right reasons.…
5 Amazing Music Performances That Will Make You a Better Public Speaker
Presentation Guru
NOVEMBER 2, 2017
What’s your favourite song and can you remember the first time you heard it? As both a professional singer and a speaking coach, Shola Kaye has found that pop singers and their songs are often far more memorable than famous speakers and their speeches.
How To Speak So You Engage Your Exceedingly Restless Millennial Audience
Presentation Guru
DECEMBER 19, 2017
“If the stereotype of Gen Y is one who is spoilt, irresponsible and immediate gratification based, Benjamin Loh defies all that!”
The World’s Worst Research Presentation
Presentation Guru
OCTOBER 19, 2017
Is this the world’s worst ever research presentation? We are indebted to Marc Jadoul for discovering this little gem. The renowned researcher, Dr Fisher-Katz, addresses an audience of undergraduates on her specialist subject, Nano Electronics.
Sawubona: ‘See’ Your Audience
Presentation Guru
APRIL 3, 2018
According to the popular adage, “seeing is believing.” In other words, if you see something yourself, you will believe it to be real or true, even if the existence of that thing was unexpected. This idea that I have to see it to believe it stretches from ancient history to modern times.…
Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Just Cut and Paste
Presentation Guru
MARCH 13, 2018
Is it ever a good idea to copy/paste text and tables directly out of a publication? In Dr Oliver Hauss’s previous article, he pointed out the dangerous lure of simply reusing slides and, especially, visuals premade for scientific print publications or slide documents.
How to Be an Effective Presenter Through Better Listening
Presentation Guru
NOVEMBER 28, 2017
Presenting is one of those life skills that’ll benefit you no matter where you go, from the classroom to the boardroom. Although it can often be nerve-wracking, presenting is a skill that should be honed to be part of your arsenal – you’ll never know where it will be useful!…
How to Move Hearts and Minds with these 12 Easy Hacks
Presentation Guru
SEPTEMBER 26, 2017
Most presenters forget that their job is not simply to explain something, it is to transmit a feeling to their audience. Often, for business audiences, they neither feel nor face anything much that is positive in their worlds.
If You Don’t Understand What the Audience Wants…
Presentation Guru
FEBRUARY 1, 2018
If you don’t understand what the audience wants, you can’t be relevant. If you can’t be relevant, you won’t be interesting. If you aren’t interesting, you won’t be heard. If you’re not heard, you’ll be forgotten. If you’re forgotten, you’re done.
Fixed with Gold – the Painful Lessons That Help the Presenter Grow
Presentation Guru
JANUARY 24, 2018
If you want to grow as a speaker, you can’t learn if you don’t fall, and it’s not whether, or how far, you fall that defines you, it’s how you get up, dust yourself off and carry on.
Use Storytelling to Present with Power
Presentation Guru
JANUARY 9, 2018
Think of the last good movie you watched. It likely had bright images, a compelling script, music, rhythm and heroic characters. All these elements came together and made you feel something – excited, sad, angry, maybe even apathy.
Four Lessons from the Mountain for Every Public Speaker
Presentation Guru
JUNE 13, 2017
A few weeks ago, my friend Timo Sorri came to Geneva for a visit. Timo is an expert in presentation design. You can learn more about what he does on his website. And, you can read his answers to the Guru’s Big Five Questions here.…
How to Overcome Your Fear of Public Speaking in 6 Mostly Easy Steps
Presentation Guru
DECEMBER 13, 2016
Presentation Guru is dedicated to helping professionals communicate with real impact in pursuit of whatever they do. We want designers to design, speakers to speak and teachers to teach to the absolute limit of their imagination.
Let’s look at Interactive Digital Whiteboards
Presentation Guru
MARCH 6, 2018
With the advent of digital whiteboards, the days of chalk and markers might just be over. While many of us might still be fond of whiteboards, they might soon change in ways we might not have imagined.
Why Comparisons are Bad But Can Be Made Good
Presentation Guru
JUNE 22, 2017
Will you ever be a great presenter if you don’t believe in your own ability and worth? A great deal of the advice around Presentation Skills is focused on actual Presentation Techniques.
Fixed with Gold – 3 More Painful Lessons That Help the Presenter Grow
Presentation Guru
FEBRUARY 27, 2018
In the first post in the series, I bared my soul about some of the howlers I made as a speaker, and pointed to the lessons that we can all learn from them that make us stronger and more resilient in the future, however painful the past might have been.…
The Most Effective Way to Begin a Presentation
Presentation Guru
JULY 26, 2017
Simon Sinek spends his life teaching leaders how to inspire others.
10 Tips for… Starting Brilliantly
Presentation Guru
MARCH 1, 2018
So many people ask us how to start well in a presentation and how to make the maximum impact in those crucial first few minutes.
Book Review – Visual Thinking by Emma Bannister
Presentation Guru
MARCH 8, 2018
If you want to make better presentations, and I think most of us do, Visual Thinking is a presentation design book aimed at real people with a message to share. A resource for people who have presentations to create as part of their work or studies, and who aren’t professional designers.
Why You Should Never Underestimate the Power of the Spoken Word
Presentation Guru
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
What words do you use to demonstrate conviction, to connect with your audience or to inspire and communicate confidence in your subject matter?
Why You Need to Invest in Creating Professional Powerpoint Templates
Presentation Guru
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
Many companies – maybe yours – make the decision to design their presentations in-house. That’s fine, but in order not to waste time (and money) you need to make sure your team has been given the right training AND the right tools for the job.
RHETORIC – The Game That Will Make Public Speaking Fun
Presentation Guru
NOVEMBER 21, 2016
RHETORIC–The Public Speaking Game™. Public speaking. The mere thought of it can set hearts pounding! And yet, being able to communicate one’s ideas in public is an important and sought-after skill.
Even with Great Content You Can Destroy Your Message
Presentation Guru
JANUARY 18, 2018
Even with great content you can destroy your message simply by the way you present it as Mark Robinson shows us in his 2016 TEDx talk: How to Present to Keep Your Audience’s Attention.
Can a slidedoc ever be a presentation?
Presentation Guru
SEPTEMBER 12, 2017
In scientific presentations, pre-made slides are a bane and a boon at the same time. Some journals offer all the figures from publications as slides, but it’s usually as a single unalterable image, which make the slide often unsuited for presentation.
Why Public Speaking is Good for Your Career
Presentation Guru
OCTOBER 12, 2017
People listen when Warren Buffett speaks.
How to Engage the Audience When Your Data is the Story
Presentation Guru
JANUARY 19, 2017
How can presenters keep an audience engaged when going over large sets of data?
The Secret Weapon of the Most Successful Speakers
Presentation Guru
AUGUST 22, 2017
Imagine that you’ve been engaged to coach a senior speaker for an upcoming keynote presentation. You get up in the morning, put on your second best suit, polish your shoes and get on the train or plane to travel to your client’s place of work.…
7 Tried and Tested Tips to Overcome Writers Block
Presentation Guru
JANUARY 30, 2018
Have you ever felt you were losing the ability to produce anything worthwhile? Anyone, at any point in their writing career, can experience a creative slowdown, a time when they just completely run out of inspiration.
How Can You Improve Your Sales? Ask These Questions
Presentation Guru
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
If there’s one key learning that will improve your sales conversations, it is this: Sales is an iceberg, not a mountain. Too often, presentations focus on the product and the outcome, as if that all-important meeting were a mountain that the presenter has to climb.…
Should You Use Storytelling in Scientific Presentations?
Presentation Guru
JUNE 15, 2017
“Stories are anecdotes and we expect medical technologies to be based on a bit more solid evidence than that.”
Persuasive Presenting: 3 Strategies for More Effective Leadership
Presentation Guru
FEBRUARY 13, 2018
Internal communications require just as much care and attention because what – and how – we communicate to our teams is ultimately what will drive our success.
The Small Changes to your Speech that will have a Big Effect
Presentation Guru
NOVEMBER 7, 2017
So if you have read Jim’s earlier piece on how to become a more charismatic speaker, you will know what you are supposed to be doing – but how exactly do you do it? Concrete examples, that’s what we need.
Five Things You Didn’t Know PowerPoint Could Do
Presentation Guru
MARCH 30, 2017
PowerPoint has come a long way since the days of bullets and text, but how many people actually realise just how much is possible with this most widely used presentation software? Taking the time to learn just that little bit more than everyone else will make your presentation instantly stand out.
Should Schools Offer a BA in Presentation Design?
Presentation Guru
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
Here’s an interesting question: should schools offer a BA in Presentation Design?
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