It’s hard to dance without music. And it’s hard to listen without story. That’s why when a presentation is full of (only) numbers, data, and facts, many managers become fatigued. They sit through many presentations and meetings, and so few of these presentations contain materials that are vivid, capture their imagination, or are memorable. Without...
Ibrahim J. Mariwa, then a call centre worker, had atrocious ratings, and he had them for a long while. He was desperate to improve, so he asked his supervisor for his past call recordings. He listened to his first recording, cringed, and thought: I don’t want to listen to this. He listened to the second...
This is a rewritten excerpt taken from Regina Morris’s sharing at People Potential’s regular Community of Practice, a weekly meet-up of subject matter experts, trainers, facilitators, and instructional design practitioners who come together to improve themselves. It’s part of People Potential’s commitment to our clients. Regina is People Potential’s senior business presentations specialist. — Over...
Follow a senior leader’s journey as he experiences an Executive Presentations Coaching session. Joseph presented his baseline presentation (the initial presentation before coaching) during the Executive Presentations Coaching session while Joseph’s coach, Ibrahim, took notes. Under ‘transitions’ (the things people say to transition from one thought to another or from one slide to the next),...
According to one theory, humans have evolved to a superior intellect (compared to our primate cousins) because we developed the ability to make tools like clubs, spears, pots, and back scratchers (for those hard-to-reach places). Tools allowed our long-ago uncles and aunties to augment their physical potential beyond their bare hands and feet. But the...
Many moons ago; Frank sat across a massive wooden table that was wide enough to seat four people with space left over. Frank had his arms folded in front of his chest and sat at an angle, never quite facing Marianne directly throughout their meeting. To Marianne, Frank was uncomfortably distant. Frank was the head...
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,...