When a colleague makes a poor presentation, and you multiply that by the number of people in the room and the volume of presentations delivered every day in your organisation; an enormous amount of time is wasted. We can’t afford to lose precious hours, so let’s look at why some presentations squander so much time...
It’s a beautiful Wednesday morning for Mandy, one of those “Bring it on!” mornings. That’s because she’s ready for anything that her CEO is going to throw at her. After burning the midnight oil for three nights in a row, her mountain of slides have now been organised into a data-rich, logical presentation. Mandy is...
You might want to devise a leadership programme that resonates with your lower-level managers up to your CEO. Or you could be looking to unleash a work management system that you want warehousing, engineering, and finance to adopt. Or you’d like to encourage a collaborative framework to bring disparate teams to work together from far-flung...
Not all people are wide-eyed, starry-eyed, eagle-eyed people of passion and purpose. As an HR or L&D professional, our mission at work (and often in life) is to empower people with the knowledge and skills that they need to thrive. And a great way to empower people is through nurture and encouragement. You and I,...
Our Presentations Alive!™ programme doesn’t just improve people’s business presentation skills. Within Presentations Alive! there’s a hidden second programme. When we designed Presentations Alive!, we did so knowing that the most important skills are also the most difficult to teach – skills like confidence and self-worth. So, we stealthily included these elements into an innocent-sounding...
It’s frustrating when our ideas are not approved, especially when we’ve put weeks into writing and fine–tuning a business presentation – only for our ideas to be brushed aside. But that’s what happens when we’re misunderstood – people cannot see the merits of what we’re trying to present. Because we’re misunderstood, our (often good) ideas...
Everybody in the organisation benefits from knowing how to present effectively. It’s one of today’s critical skills. Why? Because presenting with clarity and persuasiveness brings in new business, builds valuable relationships and motivates teams. Once you’ve decided that your people need presentation training, selecting the right training provider can be a daunting task. They all...
People managers at big accounting firms have a very challenging role. They need to motivate, coordinate, and enable their teams to not only meet but exceed client expectations on a regular basis, often under intense time pressure. Such firms realise that effective communication between managers and their teams is a key component to successful projects...
Organisations are filled with professionals like you, who in most cases, know more about what they are doing than their managers and executives. They’ve spent years honing their craft, accumulating valuable knowledge, and reimagining the future. Their ideas could massively benefit the organisation. Unfortunately, those ideas are often not expressed to senior management Why?...
Communicating is something we do almost automatically and unconsciously on a daily basis. Like breathing. We rarely stop and reflect if our way of communicating is actually effective and what we could do to improve it. Added to this, we rarely receive direct feedback about our communication style. Sometimes, we notice that we don’t...