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Category: presentation skills

Short Anecdotes for Speeches and Parables to Amaze Your Audience
Short Anecdotes for Speeches and Parables to Amaze Your Audience Podcasts, presentation skills

Short anecdotes for speeches are a fantastic way to end a presentation with a bang. These stories can be fiction, actual incidents from history, or even just funny stories from your own personal life. When you deliver them well, though, they have a lasting impact. I often use these short anecdotes for speeches when I’m…

How to Deliver a Presentation that Someone Else Wrote
How to Deliver a PowerPoint Presentation Designed by Someone Else presentation skills

Narrating a PowerPoint Presentation designed by someone else can be very challenging. In fact, one of the fastest ways to increase public speaking fear and make your PowerPoint presentations sound canned and… well boring, is to try to deliver a PowerPoint slideshow that someone else designed for you. This doesn’t mean that you can’t deliver…

How to Design Killer Content for Blogs and Motivational Speeches
How to Design Killer Content for Blogs and Motivational Speeches Podcasts, presentation skills

Looking for an easy way to create killer content for your blog? Or, are you trying to design a motivational speech for your team? In this post, I cover a simple way to create content that your audience will love. The technique works equally well if whether you are delivering in verbally (in a speech)…

How to Create Webinar Content to Maximize Audience Retention Podcasts, presentation skills

Continuing in our three-part webinar series, in this episode/post, we’ll cover how to create webinar content to help you maximize audience retention. In the last episode, we covered 7 Important Things that You Should Know about Online Meetings before you start. Next week, we’ll cover a few of the technical aspects of how to deliver…

Designing a Technical Presentation for a Non-Technical Audience Podcasts, presentation skills

People who become Engineers or enter any number of technical fields usually have a specific type of brain. In other words, they simply “get it” when it comes to an understanding of how certain things work, whatever that one exact “thing” maybe for them. You know who you are, the one who was asked to…

Personality Strengths and Weaknesses that Lead to Public Speaking Fear Free Public Speaking Tips, presentation skills

From time to time, I hear people say things like, “She is a natural speaker.” On the other hand, I also hear things like, “I’ve always been a terrible speaker.” Both of these statements may be somewhat true. But they are also both absolutely false as well. No one comes out of the womb a…