The Presentations Japan Series

Shooshing Your Noisy Audience Is Ridiculous When Presenting

When a presentation event unintentionally turns into comedic relief, you know you have a major credibility problem.  Imagine it is after …

Bland Is Bad When Presenting

Smart, capable people amaze me when I see them presenting.  This recent speaker was someone I had met in business a few times previously and this was my first time to s…

Don’t Get A Grip When Presenting

Good posture never goes out of fashion.  Standing up straight shows confidence, allows good breath control and projects energy. Given this is pretty simple, then wh…

Go Broad, But Also Go Deep When Presenting

When you hear an excellent presentation, it is easy to be well satisfied.  When you are giving such a presentation and the audience are wolfing down your …

Vacuum Up Cool Stuff for Your Presentations

Do you have one of those diaries that includes a daily quotation on the page?  Or maybe you subscribe to a service that sends you uplifting quotes?  I ha…

How To Liven Up A Speech You Have To Read

Watching a friend of mine deliver his speech to my Rotary Club reminded me of the perils of reading speeches.  In his case, he was giving the speech in Jap…

The Importance of Analysing Your Own Presentation Performance

The presentation has come to a close and we are relieved it is all over.  We pack our stuff up and get back to work.  Back to the offic…

How To Speak To 5000 People Audiences

The chances of this happening and happening regularly are remote for most of us.  The happening regularly part is the key, because when you are dealing at this…

Presentation Practice Frequency

The usual frequency for most people for giving formal presentations is once in a blue moon.  In other words, we don’t do so many in a year. This presents a problem, …

How To Get Self-Belief As A Presenter When You Don’t Have Any

We don’t get the chance to do so many public presentations in business, so it becomes a hard skill set to build or maintain.  The inter…

How To Rehearse Your Presentation

We have planned our talk, all we need do now is deliver it.  We have designed it, starting with the key punch line we will deliver in the first close of the speech…

Rhetorical Questions When Presenting

Are we talking at people, to people or with people when we are presenting?  The “talking at” part is easy to pick.  There is no attempt at rapport building with…

Giving Presentations: It Is Harder Than It Looks Folks

When you are an instructor and coach for presenters or a regular presenter, you tend to be immersed in that world and your sense of the degree…

I’ve Got My Eye On You

Eye line in Japan is a tricky subject.  This is a non-confrontational, high harmony, consensus culture.  Looking people straight in the eye is just too aggressive for polite …

Outstanding Japanese Presenters

I spend a lot of time complaining about how poor is the professional quality of presenters in Japan. It is true, so when you come across people who can present prope…

Powerpoint Free Presentations

Visuals on a screen are very powerful communication tools when presenting.  Being able to show graphs can really drive home the point. If numbers are not so easy to fo…

How To Select Data For Presentations In Business In Japan

How much is enough data in a presentation?  How much is too much?  Generally speaking, most presenters have a problem with too much, rather…

Presenting In Business in Japan

Japan has some particular ways of doing things.  We say "when in Rome, do as the Romans do".  That would be extremely bad advice when it comes to presenting your sol…

How To Read Faces When Presenting In Business In Japan

People staring at you intently when you are presenting can be unnerving. This is especially the case when we are already feeling nervous to begi…