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"Keep up, Sit up and Shut up!" The Poor Presenter’s Prayer?

"Keep up, Sit up and Shut up!" The Poor Presenter’s Prayer?

Presentation Skills

I have to credit my wife with this one.  She has been giving me excellent forthright feedback for nearly 40 years, and this morning over breakfast was no exception.  She was explaining something to me, and to be honest I was not giving her my wholly undivided...

7 ways to not answer a question when you are Presenting.

Presentation Skills

There are people on the planet who believe that when they are presenting they are required to answer any question they may be asked.  Believing that they, and only they, must answer any question thrown at them, they then do two things, neither of which is very...

The 5 things you can do with a question, apart from answer it!

Communication, Presentation Skills

This one comes up a lot in Presentation Skills training: “What do I do if I get asked a question and I don’t know the answer?’ People get overly stressed by this, and as a result spend way too much time preparing their presentation, in the hope that...

How to deal with an Expert

Business Skills Training, Communication, Consultants Training, Leadership Skills Training, Presentation Skills

My clients are clever.  They are successful in business because they know stuff that their own clients don’t.  Not to put too fine a point on it. So they get worried when they bump into someone who they think knows more than them. When I’m working with...

It's OK to "umm" and "err"!

Business Skills Training, Communication, Presentation Skills

Good news, you umm and errers (ie most of the people I work with on Presentation Skills Training)! According to researchers at Univesity of Rochester, New York, parents who pepper their explanations of things to their children with “umms” and...
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