All posts tagged "Role Models"

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  Fear and Nerves Are Normal – Here’s How to Deal with Them

  On 3 June 2017, professional rock climber Alex Honnold accomplished something that few people thought could be done. He climbed the 3,000-foot...

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  Big Five Questions

  The Guru’s Big Five Questions – Tulia Lopes

  The community is the Guru. We want to help our readers build their skills as presentation designers, speakers and coaches, learning from...

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  Radio Is a Great School for Presenters

  What can business presenters learn from radio presenters? Simon Raybould, who has written for Presentation Guru several times, recently found himself in...

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  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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  Write Great Speeches

  7 Tried and Tested Tips to Overcome Writers Block

  Have you ever felt you were losing the ability to produce anything worthwhile? Anyone, at any point in their writing career, can...

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  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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  Oprah Winfrey and How to Give the Best Acceptance Speech Ever

  No-one can have escaped the ballyhoo surrounding Oprah Winfrey’s acceptance speech at the 75th annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony earlier this week....

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  Using Humour in a Presentation – It’s No Laughing Matter

  How do great speakers connect, engage and entertain their audiences?  The French author Victor Hugo said, “Laughter is the sun that drives...

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  5 Amazing Music Performances That Will Make You a Better Public Speaker

  What’s your favourite song and can you remember the first time you heard it? As both a professional singer and a speaking...

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  The Guru’s Big Five Questions – Oscar Santolalla

  This community is the Guru. We want to help our readers build their skills as presentation designers, speakers and coaches, learning from...

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  7 Surprisingly Simple Ways to Keep Your Audience Hooked

  There’s nothing worse than realising mid-presentation that your audience is asleep. In fact, a recent Harris Poll survey discovered that half of...

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  So You Want to Be a Presentation Designer?

  What’s Your Goal? When I was pregnant with my first daughter, I had the idea of creating a little business sideline that...