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Bogus Tips for Presenters – Part 1

July 23, 2010 – 9:13 am

Sometimes it’s just easier to reduce life down to a collection of catchy little one-liners or helpful hints.  That’s certainly no truer than in the world of presenting.  Presentation “experts” dole this stuff out on a regular basis so I thought I would take on a few of these and hold them up to the light of day… [...]

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Repetitions & Reputations

June 25, 2010 – 10:35 am

A few years back, I was cajoled by some buddies to be in a golf tournament with them.  First of all, I never golf enough to really get better.  And if I would have thought for a second, I would have realized their motivation wasn’t to just hang out with a good friend for a [...]

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Beyond Normal Fear…

May 14, 2010 – 9:04 am

A few days ago I spoke at a conference for business communicators from the IABC and PRSA Northwest Chapters. It was a fun opportunity that took place in one of those old downtown buildings that look like they are straight out of the board game Clue.  In my case, I was presenting in a mahogany-wrapped “Library” to [...]

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Technology issues still take first place as biggest frustration

March 2, 2010 – 9:37 am

More survey results from Distinction Communication’s 2009 Annual Presentation Impact Survey… Q8. Rank these presentation frustrations from most to least challenging for you? (Ranked responses based on full survey input) 3.7  Presentation technologies don’t always work as advertised 3.0  No time to actually practice delivering the presentation 2.9  The time it takes to create the slide presentation 2.8  Collaborating [...]

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Wow! 54.4% of those presenting high stakes messages practice an hour or more!

February 26, 2010 – 9:37 am

More survey results from Distinction Communication’s 2009 Annual Presentation Impact Survey… Q7. How much time do you actually spend practicing for a “high stakes” presentation? 12.1%  I seldom practice at all 16.2% 5 to 30-minutes 17.3%  30-minutes to an hour 29.2%  One to two hours 25.2%  More than two hours We had to look at [...]

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