October 10, 2019
Good Charts: Using “Dataviz” for Better Presentations
It's perfectly possible to produce bad charts despite knowing your subject backward, as my former company's consultants showed me.
Posts tagged with 'presentations'
June 20, 2019
The Psychology of Learning – Secrets of the Magicians!
Have you ever been astonished by a magician’s trick, and then tried to work out how they did it? Maybe, in the cold light of…
June 11, 2019
Using Storytelling as a Workplace Tool – #MTtalk Roundup
“The difference between real life and a story is that life has significance, while a story must have meaning.” ― Vera…
October 5, 2017
How to Communicate With Presence
In Dianna Booher’s view, you can’t separate leadership and communication. Indeed, she believes that learning to communicate “is the essence of leadership and the…
April 13, 2017
Presentations: Why You Need to Be Prepared!
I’ve been fortunate in not having to sit through a presentation that completely “bombed,” and I’ve been doubly fortunate in that the few presentations that I’ve…
July 12, 2016
#MTtalk: Team Meetings: Do You Help, Hide or Hinder?
Maybe you’re the exception to the rule and you absolutely love meetings, but many of us don’t enjoy them. Some meetings drag on for hours,…
December 23, 2014
Do you Speak the Lingo?
Business jargon is made up of words and phrases which – out of context – don’t make a lot of sense. Anyone who has worked in…
December 12, 2014
Don’t Make This Mistake if you Want to Improve Your Speaking Skills
If you’ve read our recent article on increasing your visibility at work, you’ll know that one of the most effective ways to do this…
March 24, 2014
Keeping It Short
Joe McCormack Do you sometimes feel overloaded with information? Every day, you probably experience a deluge of written reports, emails, newsletters, tweets, texts, and…