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.

Posts By Jim Harvey

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Build Your Skills
3 Habits That Will Take Your Presentation Skills to the Next Level
There are lots of articles on here that will help you build a strong foundation as a public speaker: articles to help...
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Hardware
Travelling Presentation Coach? Here’s All the Kit You Need
In this article, Jim Harvey explains the equipment that he takes with him all over the world when he’s speaking, training or...
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Build Real Impact
What’s the One Thing That Will Make You a Better Communicator?
Paul gets a hammering from his boss Paul was 5 minutes into his presentation and the room was dead. Paul wasn’t a...
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Authenticity
Malcolm Gladwell on Connecting with an Audience
You know who he is. He’s the zeitgeist-shaping author of such popular classics as Outliers, The Tipping Point and Blink. He’s popularised...
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Build Your Skills
How to Make Sure Your Accent Won’t Ruin Your Career
If English isn’t your first language and you feel less confident about your presentations, what should you do? Change your accent? Give...
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Performance
So You Speak English – What If Your Audience Doesn’t?
Anyone who speaks to international audiences in English faces a particular set of challenges that can affect their confidence, and their competence....
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Build Your Skills
10 Tips for…Presenting in English
One of the fundamental principles of public speaking is that the meaning of any message is what is actually understood by the...
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Build Your Skills
10 Tips for…the Final Polish
There’s always a little hint or tip that you pick up along the way that can help you stand out from the...
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Working practices
10 Tips for…Setting Up on the Day
There’s so much you can do before the event to make sure that you have a great experience on the day. Most...
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Performance
10 Tips for…Using Your Voice
It’s your instrument and most people don’t really know how to use it. But it can greatly influence people’s perception of both...
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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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