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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Book Reviews
Slide:ology by Nancy Duarte: Create Moving and Amazing Presentations
This is Nancy Duarte’s magnum opus. It’s the best book she’s written and the one that every presenter, coach and slide design...
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Book Reviews
Better Presentations – A Guide For Scholars, Researchers and Wonks
Jon Schwabish is a Government Economist turned presentation guru. He works for the Urban Institute – a non-profit organization, where he specialises...
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Build Your Skills
How to Prepare for the Unexpected Questions
As presenters, many of us have been caught off guard during the Q&A section after a presentation. In this article, Jim gives a detailed...
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Big Five Questions
The Guru’s Big Five Questions – Jim Harvey
Jim Harvey is the founder of The Message Business, a company which helps FTSE 100 companies sell themselves, and their products better....
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Charisma
The Most Important Thing That Trumps All When Presenting
Status trumps everything when you’re speaking to a crowd? How can that be true? Does status trump the story? The preparation? The visuals?...
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Persuasion
How The Ladder of Abstraction Can Help The Public Speaker
Why a Ladder of Abstraction? The purpose of a speech is to move people to action. You point an audience to a...
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Storytelling
Even the Shortest Story Needs Structure
In a previous post we shared an anecdote about Ernest Hemingway, and his shortest story ever, just 6 words long. We then...
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Authenticity
How Short Can a Story Be? Ernest Hemingway’s Special Gift
We recently explored the neuroscience behind telling a story, and more specifically how it appeals to an emotional response from an audience....
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Rehearsal
5 Most Common Tech Problems for Presenters… and How To Avoid Them
Every speaker has had something go wrong with the equipment as they speak. The hard truth is that most technical problems are...
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Storytelling
Presenting to Angry and Difficult Audiences? Try Subtlety
It’s easy to present to a crowd who look like you, sound like you and think like you; it’s a whole different...
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Book Reviews
Book Review – Rock Your Presentation by Nigel Barlow
Nigel Barlow is a skilled conference speaker. He asked us to review his latest book, ‘Rock Your Presentation‘, and we were very...
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Prezi
The Problem for Prezi – Most Prezis look rubbish and don’t work
In this article, Jim Harvey looks at Prezi as an innovation, and tries to see a bright future for this once shining,...

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