Improve Your Presentations

Practical advice, tips, and techniques to improve your speaking and presenting skills.

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The Power of Being First to Know

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The Warm Water Advantage

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How to Make Eye Contact with a Large Audience

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The Audience Wouldn’t Respond

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Why the Basics Matter in a Presentation

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How to Get Comfortable with Pausing

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Slow Down Your Closing

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When to Pause in a Presentation

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The Power of the Pause

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Don’t Read Your Presentation from Your Phone

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The Opportunity Before You Begin

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The Importance of Arriving Early at Your Venue

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What Your Audience Can Actually Absorb

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Why Your First 15 Minutes Matter in a Webinar

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How to Make Your Audience ‘Play Ball’

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How to Follow a Strong Speaker

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Should You Use Slides in a Presentation?

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Don’t Let Familiar Venues Catch You Out

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Why Authentic Engagement Matters in Presentations

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Why Room Dynamics Can Make or Break Your Presentation

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Why Your Closing Remarks Matter

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Why Notes Fail When You Stand Up

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Turning Webinar Problems into Engagement Opportunities

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Start With a Clean Slate

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Why You Should Test Your Notes Standing up

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The Power of Different

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The Line That Changed the Train

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Put the Phone Down: A Better Way to Present

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The Midpoint Problem

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The Power of Background Music

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A Surprising Cure for Speaking Nerves

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Engage Your Audience – Rock Star Style

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Perfecting your microphone skills

The Art of Being Quotable: Lessons from Bill McLaren

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Why You Should Always Finish Before Time

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Don’t Guess the Name

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Test Your Voice Before You Present

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The Presentation That Sounded All Wrong

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Winning the Graveyard Slot

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Start Strong to Keep Them Listening

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How to Keep Repeated Presentations Fresh

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Record. Review. Refine

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The Closeness Factor

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Two Audience Killers

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One Poll Can Change Everything

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Stop the Audience Ping Pong

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Your Slides Deserve a Dress Rehearsal Too

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Speak First. Share Later

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How to Break the Chat Ice

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Before the Facts, Build the Interest

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The Emoji Lifeline

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Close the Gap. Drop the Glass

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Speak and be Heard

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Fewer Words Bigger Impact

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Make Your Moment Count

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Pogshams Presentations

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The On Mute Technique

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Perfecting the Pre-Record

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Find Your Anchor Point

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Back foot or Front foot?

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Always be Authentic

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A full rehearsal!

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Opening Words. Lasting Impressions

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Own the Screen…

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Things Will Go Wrong!

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Get there early!

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Avoid Presentation Bribery

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Own Your Audience: Lessons from Cyndi Lauper

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A reason to listen…

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How to engage your virtual audience

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Avoiding Information Overload

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A Few Words…

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The importance of capturing your audience’s attention…

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One vital lesson from Robert Burns…

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Presenting with a colleague…

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Camera On…Camera Off…

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Presentation Nerves…

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Avoid this Virtual Presentation Mistake…

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A new presentation hazard…

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Closing is the hardest thing…

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Avoiding a dip in the middle of your speech

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Presentation advice from Aristotle

Solid presentation advice from Aristotle

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You are on mute!

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< title="19Nov2024">Presentation Lessons - Don't sweat the small stuff!

Presentation lessons – Don’t worry about the small stuff!

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< title="12Nov2024">How to deliver a busy PowerPoint slide

How to deliver a busy PowerPoint slide

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< title="Engaging Your Audience">Engaging Your Audience

Lessons from Bruce Springsteen – Engaging an audience

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Lessons from the US Election Debate

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< title="BoredAudience">Avoiding a long prelude

Avoiding a long prelude…

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Perfecting your microphone skills

Perfecting your microphone skills

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Breakout Rooms Online – give them a boost

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< title="2024Feb6">Presentation lessons from Phil Collins

Presentation Lessons from Phil Collins

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< title="BoredAudience">Avoiding a long prelude

Finish a presentation at the right time

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< title="Structure">Better presentation structure

Better Presentation Structure

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< title="EngageVirtualAudience">Using Zoom Polls Correctly

Using Zoom Polls Correctly

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< title="BulletPoint5">Lessons from a magic show

Eye Contact in a Presentation

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< title="PowerPoint slide transitions">PowerPoint Slide Transitions

PowerPoint slide transitions – master them fast

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< title="1 (6)">Start strong in a presentation

Start Strong in a Presentation

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What to do When Your Mic Fails During a Webinar.

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How to Get Questions at Your Next Q&A Session

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How to Create Good Powerpoint Slides: Top Tips for Your Success.

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The Power of the Pause – Top 5 Tips

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Presenting In The Room Again? Help Is Here.

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Impact of Covid on Presentation Confidence

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Know your Presentation Audience

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Pause in Your Presentation

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How to use Suspense in a Presentation

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Start strong in your presentation

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Check the Presentation Technology

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Presenting in the room again…

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PowerPoint Slides

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Effective Presentation Slides Online

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< title="EngageVirtualAudience">Using Zoom Polls Correctly

Zoom Presentation Polls – Ten Top Tips

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< title="PresentationImpact">Make presentation impact as a team

Presentation Impact in a team

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One Online Presentation Mistake to Avoid

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< title="VirtualPresentationTip">Tip for Virtual Presentations

Virtual Presentation Tip

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< title="PresentationLighting">Get the right lighting for your presentation

Presentation Lighting

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Your Presentation Audience

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Hybrid Presentation Slides

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Presentation Preparation tip – try this

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Virtual Presentation – one final check

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PowerPoint slides – one easy hack on Zoom

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Zoom presentation impact – visual impact

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Presenting Virtually – how to get ready

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Zoom Presentation Tips

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Zoom presentation or Teams presentation coming up?

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Zoom Presentation tip – one easy way to get a boost

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Hybrid Presenting

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Hybrid Working

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Hybrid Presentation – future of presenting

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Hybrid Presentations – get ready now

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Webinar Content

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< title="4 (12)">Your Delivery in a Webinar

Your delivery in a webinar

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Webinar Slides

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Webinar Eye Contact

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< title="9 (6)">Make a Strong Start to your Webinar

Make a strong start to your webinar

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Winning with your audience

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< title="EngageVirtualAudience">Using Zoom Polls Correctly

How to Engage your Virtual Audience

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‘The Camera, the Screen and the Keyboard’ – a vital Webinar lesson

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Zoom Meeting Tips – how to improve

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Conference presentation tips – two simple ideas

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Energising Public Speaking Tips from the Stansted Express Train and the DLR

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Presentation tips for Engineers

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< title="TeamPresentationTips">Tips for team presentations

Team presentation tips to help you ALL succeed

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Presentation Tips – 5 lessons from the pantomime

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Are you one of the public speaking JAMs?

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Check Your Facts…and then Check Them Again

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How do I finish on time if I get interrupted?

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Want to Speak With Impact, get more creative or solve thorny problems?

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