by Pablo German | Aug 19, 2019 | AIMER, audience, communication, public speaking
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...
by Pablo German | Aug 3, 2019 | AIMER, communication, public speaking
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...
by Pablo German | Jul 22, 2019 | audience, communication, public speaking
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...
by Pablo German | Jun 7, 2016 | audience, communication, public speaking
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...
by Pablo German | Jun 7, 2016 | audience, communication, public speaking
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...
by Pablo German | Jun 7, 2016 | communication, public speaking
Originally published in 2012. In my previous blog I asked you whether you take your audience for granted. The first step towards not taking your audience for granted is to realise that a presentation is not about you, it is about them (your audience). It doesn’t...