The Presentations Japan Series

Getting Your Staff Messaging Right In A Crisis

There are plenty of experts providing insight and recommendations for corporates with their messaging during this Covid-19 crisis, but not so much att…

Engaging Covid-19 Isolated Audiences

Once upon a time, isolation from our audience meant we were not getting our message through to them.  We were a poor presenter or the quality of the message was…

Screen Based Strong Messaging Techniques

Most people have trouble getting their message across when they are in front of others and doing it in person.  Being on screen while everyone is working at…

Covid 19 And On-Line Presentation Skills

GIGO is a useful acronym from the past, which we can employ for the current problem we have conducting business meetings and presentations on-line.  Garbage…

Covid-19 Challenges Leaders’ Communication Skills

Most leaders tend to underestimate the importance of communicating with their teams even in normal times.  We are now definitely far removed from “…

Should I Recycle My Content Between Presentations?

We go to a lot of effort to prepare for our presentations.  We find the best quality information, assemble the slides to showcase that data and we…

Owning Your Material When You Didn’t Create It

The minions are swarming around the venue.  There are people setting up cameras, sound equipment, teleprompter invisible screens, and additional hange…

How Much Selling Should You Do During Your Presentation?

The organisers of public presentations are usually not very happy for the presenter to start flogging their company’s products to the audien…

Advice For Your First Major Presentation

At different stages in our careers we are asked to give a presentation.  It may be a simple reporting on progress on a project or the state of play with the…

Who Are You Presenting For?

My regular Rotary meeting held every week at the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo has a featured speaker.   Our speaker this time was a celebrity in his eighties and very well kn…

The Big Idea When Presenting

The podium is a powerful place for powerful ideas.  The audience has no idea what you are going to say and where you are going to take them during your presentation.  I…

Small Target Tactics For Hostile Audiences

Presenting isn’t always adoration, adulation, regard and agreement.  Sometimes, we have to go into hostile territory with a message that is not welcomed, …

Dress For Success When Presenting

How should we dress when presenting and does it actually matter?  It matters - particularly in Japan.  Japan is a very formal country, in love with ceremony, pomp …

Using Micro Stories When Presenting

Storytelling is one of those things that we all know about, but where we could do a much better job of utilising this facility in business.  It allows us to enga…

2020 Here We Go – Let’s Build Our Personal Brand As A Presente

The New Year’s resolutions concept is ridiculous, but only because we are weak, lazy, inconsistent and lacking in discipline.  Apart fro…

Reflecting On Your Past Presentations

As the calendar year slowly winds down, now is a good time to review and reflect upon the presentations you have given this year in over the past few years.  W…

Leading An Intentional Presenter Life In 2020

Are we going slowly glide in 2020 carrying all the bad habits and bad baggage from everything we have thought, done and procrastinated on up until now?…

How To Use Video In Your Presentation

Video is the refuge of rascals when presenting.  The unskilled Japanese President tries to shift the attention off his miserable presentation skills, by divert…

The Winning Formula When Speaking

I was invited to an English Speech contest for Middle School students.  The students must have home grown skills and are not eligible to compete if they have spent…

How To Review Your Presentation

Athletes and coaches spend a lot of time watching their team’s performance.  Strengths and weaknesses are sought in order to amplify the former and eliminate the lat…