#3 Presentation Mythstakes… “The fewer slides you use, the better” This reasoning doesn’t work. It only came about in the vain hope that people would keep their business presentations shorter and punchier. Instead people default to creating slides that are dense with content and data. This will not support you as a speaker.; also, the [...]

#4 Presentation Mythstakes… “Give them your credentials upfront” Avoid! In the first 30 to 90 seconds of your business presentation an audience is not interested in you waxing lyrical about who you are and what qualifies you to be there! It’s not about you, it’s about them. From your first breath, engage them, pique [...]

#5 Presentation Mythstakes… “I don’t need to rehearse; it makes me less spontaneous”   I don’t have enough fingers on enough hands to count how often I have heard this from people I have trained. Have you thought what it might be like to fly with a pilot who has never practiced his flying skills in [...]