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The Four Conditions to Communicating Effectively – 8
In the blog post “What Is an Effective Presentation?” we saw that an effective presentation is a presentation that changes the way your audience thinks, feels, and behaves. Before you get there, though, there are four things that need to happen with your audience...
What is an effective presentation? – 7
How do you know whether you have given an effective presentation? When the audience gives you a standing ovation? When you manage to convey all the information you wanted to convey in the amount of time you were given? When you entertained your audience and made them...
Do You Want to Be Remembered or Forgotten? – 6
How many presentations have you listened to? Chances are hundreds or thousands. And if you include all the speeches that go on in work meetings (whether they are formal presentations or not) we are probably talking about hundreds of thousands. How many do you...
Are You Missing One Essential Element? – 5
Originally published in 2012. How often do you listen to a presentation where the presenter talks at length and when the presentation finishes you ask yourself, so what? What is the point? Most likely the presentation was missing one essential element, a take-home...
Make an impact with your presentation – 4
Originally published in 2012. In the previous three blogs we looked at the audience: the importance of not taking your audience for granted, researching your audience before your presentation, and finding out what your audience wants. Let’s move away from the audience...
What does your audience want? – 3
Originally published in 2012. As suggested in my previous blog, one of the most important questions you can ask yourself before a presentation is, what does your audience want? There is one very important reason why you should ask yourself that question which I...