Best and Worst things about presentations (What Korean people think)
Yesterday, I did a presentation training course with a large company here in Korea. After dinner, I did an exercise inspired by Garr Reynolds’ Google presentation where he asks the audience to talk...
View ArticleAn Interview with Terrence Burns
The Joong Ang Sunday newspaper in Korea published an interview with the man credited with helping the Pyeongchang Olympic Bid Team to produce a truly fantastic presentation in Durban, South Africa,...
View ArticleLessons From An Ongoing Presentation Course
Over the last few months I have been training groups of employees at a large Korean company. All the students are non-native English speakers, and all the employees have differing levels of English. In...
View ArticlePresenting in Korea Keeps Getting Better and Better
I recently finished a two day presentation workshop with group of guys from a large, global pharmaceutical company here in Korea. This is the third such workshop this company has done and I have to...
View ArticleYour Duty To Entertain
One of the biggest complaints that come from attendees of presentations is that the presenter was boring. In today’s world being boring when presenting is just going to turn your audience off you and...
View ArticleDressing to Present
A question I am often asked when I am coaching a presenter, is what do I wear? A simple guideline to follow is to wear clothing that is slightly more formal than what your audience will be wearing....
View ArticleEven the Big Companies Still Get It Wrong
Product Launches. First there was Qualcomm at CES with their ‘crazy’ show. Then there was Sony launching their Play Station 4 with no Play Station, no price and no launch date. Now there is Samsung...
View ArticleHyeon Seo Lee and The Power Of Storytelling
Your language ability does not matter if your story is compelling The story of Hyeon Seo Lee and her escape from North Korea is an amazing story. The fear, the risks and the sheer bravery this young...
View ArticleContent slides…
I don’t like them. I think they are useless and are a product of the 1990s. Presentations have a bad name. When people are told they “have to” attend a presentation, the image in their minds is of...
View ArticleHere’s recent interview I did on Presenting
Recently I did an interview for a good friend from BizMe. Here’s the video.
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