Speak First Blog | PRESENTATION SKILLS
Make an impact with your presentations: how to perfect your style
When giving a presentation, whether aiming to inform, influence or inspire, you want your audience to stay focused and take everything in. Many people assume this requires a lot of natural charisma ...
Read moreHow to adapt your presentation style for the virtual world
It wasn’t too long ago that we were all learning how to adapt our way of working from face to face to virtual. For many of us, virtual meetings were a new phenomenon which felt like a temporary fix ...
Virtual Presentations: 6 Steps to a Brilliant Delivery
As organisations all around the world began working from home, almost entirely overnight, we entered a new virtual age. Everything now is virtual, from team meetings, university classes, client calls ...
How to become a better storyteller
“A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...” – the classic opening to Star Wars, one of cinema’s greatest stories, puts a sci-fi twist on the more traditional fairy tale “once upon a time.” It sets ...
10 steps confident presenters follow to prepare
The American comedian Jerry Seinfeld once joked that since more people are scared of public speaking than of dying, you’re more likely to want to be in the casket than delivering the eulogy.
9 steps to avoiding death by powerpoint
Since its release all the way back in 1987, PowerPoint has transformed and defined how we give presentations. If you’ve been asked to give a report in a meeting, a speech at a conference or a pitch ...
5 types of difficult questions and how to answer them
When you’re giving a presentation, or when giving a report at a meeting, you might be asked questions that you don’t have answers to. Or maybe you do have the answers, but you don’t know how to ...
10 Secrets to handling questions well
You have done the research, prepared the slides and rehearsed your presentation. You are in control of everything. Well, almost everything. A question and answer session can be a daunting experience ...