The Presentations Japan Series

Showtime - Are You Ready?

The hush has now swept across the room. All eyes are fixed on the MC, breaths are being held, awaiting the announcement of this year’s winner. Amazingly, it registers th…

How To Kill Your Brand With Public Speaking

Seriously sad really. Our speaker had some excellent points to convey but due to silly basic errors, killed his organisation’s messages. I believe ther…

Stage Fright Got You?

Hands and legs quivering, knees knocking together, face turning red, pulse racing, mind whiting out – this is stage fright. The term is associated with the total melt down p…

Don’t Tell Me, Show Me

Japan is an interesting place where there is a lot of respect for people’s job titles and position in the company. Sometimes though, you are left wondering is this person rea…

Dale Carnegie’s Three Iron Rules Of Public Speaking

 Not everyone should be a presenter. We don’t need higher levels of boredom or disinterest than we have already. A big “No thank you” to those co…

Goodbye Presentation Nerves

Unexpectedly, twelve time Grand Slam Tennis tournament winner Novak Djokovic has some good advice for public speakers. “I believe that half of any victory in a tennis ma…

Rockin It Women Presenters In Japan

The presentations world is still a male bastion in Nippon. I attend lot of events in Tokyo and probably the vast majority of even the internationally oriented bu…

Persuasion Power Trump Style

Donald Trump isn’t a textbook presenter. He breaks many of the rules of presenting, but nevertheless he has been effective in getting his message across. Love him or …

Wow Them At The End Of Your Presentation

It is rare to see a presentation completed well, be it inside the organization, to the client or to a larger audience. The energy often drops away, the vo…

That Vital Two Second Window

Question: how long does it take you on average to form a first impression of someone? My presentation training participants tell me “two seconds”. Wow, I nearly fell …

Find Your Leader Voice

Why are so few business leaders good communicators, given all the education they have received, starting at varsity and then later, through their workplace organisations? L…

How To Market Yourself In Under One Minute

Meeting new business contacts, expanding personal networks, promoting a reliable, trustworthy “Brand You” are the basics of business. By the way, even i…

How To Command The Rabble

The Master of Ceremony (MC) goes to the microphone to get the programme underway but the audience are simply oblivious, caught up in their own riveting conversations. The …

Storytelling For Business

 Best intentions, higher callings, righteousness – all good stuff but without good communication, our efforts fail. Instinctively, we all know storytelling is a great comm…

Making Yourself Clear

Public speaking throws up many fears and challenges for all of us. As part of High Impact Presentations, one of our public speaking courses, we have been surveying the various p…

How To Destroy Your Reputation In 60 Seconds

It is a big crowd, yet the conversation suddenly dies and a hushed silence now sweeps through the room. All eyes are fixed forward, as the MC tears at t…

Presentation Effectiveness For All

We are such a judgmental lot aren’t we! We form opinions about people within seconds of seeing them, often even before we hear them speak. We judge their dress, t…

Delivering Presentations With Clarity

There are a number of common structures for giving presentations and one of the most popular is the opening-key points/evidence-closing variety. We consider …

The Presenter’s Mindset

Our mental approach to our activities determines our success.  We know this in sports and in business, but when it comes to speaking in public, we somehow manage to forget t…