Presentation Guru

Jim Harvey

Jim is a serial entrepreneur and the MD of The Message Business, a company which helps international and FTSE 100 companies sell themselves, and their products more effectively. Jim has many years of experience speechwriting, presentation coaching and motivational speaking, all over the world.

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Build Real Impact
10 Tips for…Freshening Your Delivery

You are, most often, the final ingredient that will make a presentation, that is good on paper, go well in the real...
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Visuals
10 Tips for… Creating Great Visual Aids

We’ve boiled down all of our advice about visual aids into ten golden rules – follow these and you’ll always have your...
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Message
10 Tips for…Building a Strong Story

The story is the thing – understand that you’ve got a strong message and everything else will follow. So many business presentations...
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Build Real Impact
10 Tips for… Starting Brilliantly

So many people ask us how to start well in a presentation and how to make the maximum impact in those crucial...
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Authenticity
Fixed with Gold – 3 More Painful Lessons That Help the Presenter Grow

In the first post in the series, I bared my soul about some of the howlers I made as a speaker, and...
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Build Your Skills
Fixed with Gold – the Painful Lessons That Help the Presenter Grow

If you want to grow as a speaker, you can’t learn if you don’t fall, and it’s not whether, or how far,...
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Charisma
Why You Should Never Underestimate the Power of the Spoken Word

What words do you use to demonstrate conviction, to connect with your audience or to inspire and communicate confidence in your subject...
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Charisma
The Small Changes to Your Speech That Will Have a Big Effect

So if you have read Jim’s earlier piece on how to become a more charismatic speaker, you will know what you are...
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Charisma
How to Move Hearts and Minds with These 12 Easy Hacks

Most presenters forget that their job is not simply to explain something, it is to transmit a feeling to their audience. Often,...
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Build Your Skills
This is What Every Nervous Speaker Needs to Be Told

In this article, Jim Harvey identifies 3 new rules to help the less experienced presenter who wants to stand out, to build...
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Authenticity
10 Essential Steps to a Beautiful Eulogy for a Loved One

This is a magazine for professional speakers, and aspiring speakers, but let’s remember that for all of us, some of the most...
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Powerpoint
Look Effortlessly Expert as you Present with PowerPoint

Most speakers want to look effortlessly in control when they speak: in control of their subject, their nerves and their technology. In...

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