How to Overcome Procrastination & Deliver Amazing Presentations
The pressure of delivering a presentation and making an impact on your audience can be overwhelming. One of the escapes that many presenters seek to overcome this stress is procrastination. As counterproductive as it might be, it appears that procrastination is the natural coping mechanism for many presenters looking to escape the idea of failure. […]
Building a Persuasive Argument with the Rhetorical Triangle Concept
Building a persuasive argument can be difficult for many presenters. It is easy to get lost in translation if you’re not sure about what are you looking for. To make things easier, presenters can focus on three main aspects of building their argument using the Rhetorical Triangle Concept. Derived from Aristotle’s three rhetorical appeals, the […]
How to Use an Empathy Map to Understand Your Audience
As a presenter, one can tend to focus too much on the final presentation, missing one essential ingredient in the mix, empathy! Many presenters can face the dilemma of not truly understanding their audience, ending up with a presentation which no one is interested in and some might even get offended by. To truly understand […]
How to Effectively use the 20/60/20 Rule for Your Audience
As a presenter, you are looking to influence people and get your message across. However, a minority of individuals can sometimes ruin the prospects of a good presenter. It is not only essential to deliver a good presentation but it is also important to win hearts and minds during the process. This might mean that […]
Quick Solutions to Help You Build a Compelling Presentation Deck in Under an Hour
Introduction What would you do when you suddenly need to deliver a new PowerPoint presentation by the end of the day? Well, you can jump right in, run your presentation software and use brute force to build a deck from scratch. Or, you can work smarter by: Making a quick assessment of the presentation scenario […]
Using Circular Diagrams To Model A Process Cycle in PowerPoint
As important as Circular diagrams are, they aren’t the easiest to create. Trying to make a good looking circular flow diagram can take hours of work and even then it might seem crooked and less than perfect. This can leave you quite embarrassed, as your diagrams can be a make or break during presentations.