The power of story is the ability to connect with people on an emotional level. Following on from Sims Wyeth’s article on...
Imagine that you’ve been engaged to coach a senior speaker for an upcoming keynote presentation. You get up in the morning, put...
Simon Sinek spends his life teaching leaders how to inspire others. As an author he is best known for popularizing the concept...
“Stories are anecdotes and we expect medical technologies to be based on a bit more solid evidence than that.” When Dr Oliver...
Heroes and villains don’t just exist in fairy tales for children. In our everyday life we are surrounded by them. A business...
“As a method of persuasion, I am not a big fan of PowerPoint presentations,” says the legendary screenwriting guru Robert McKee. So...
Is your presentation data meaningful? It’s all about context. Numbers are meaningless on their own. Jude Barak shows us how to share our...
Engaging audiences is no easy task, but one of the best ways to ensure they take away your message is to make...
How can presenters keep an audience engaged when going over large sets of data? It can be challenging keeping an audience focused...
Many of our writers have spoken about the different techniques of engaging audiences from the beginning of a speech, but how does one...
Why a Ladder of Abstraction? The purpose of a speech is to move people to action. You point an audience to a...
In a previous post we shared an anecdote about Ernest Hemingway, and his shortest story ever, just 6 words long. We then...