The biggest misconception about the fear of public speaking.
People who are confident when speaking in public only lack nerves because they spoke many times despite the nerves.
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akosgerold
- Mar 13, 2021
- 1 min
Which part of your presentation should you practice the most?
Practice makes perfect when preparing for a presentation. But what if you don't have enough time to practice until you can do it perfectly?
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akosgerold
- Mar 13, 2021
- 3 min
How to make your presentation sell your idea beyond the room? It's easier than you think.
You have just delivered your presentation and you hope the message will travel way beyond the room. After all, this is crucial for selling your product, service or idea because decisions are rarely made in the room. Often, it’s not the decision maker who attends the presentation. Or not the only decision maker. And the person who was in the audience needs to sell your product, service or idea and you too to the decision maker. Or their fellow decision makers. So it’s paramoun
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akosgerold
- Mar 13, 2021
- 3 min
NEVER share your slides with your audience. Do THIS instead.
To understand why sharing your slides is detrimental for the success of a presentation, we need to go back to what the purpose of a presentation is. It is to sell an idea, product or service. To win support, motivate to action or bring on board. To inform, raise awareness or teach. The list is long. And the above are just some potential final purposes. For a first presentation, a more realistic purpose is often a smaller one, such as getting a second meeting. This time perhap
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akosgerold
- Mar 13, 2021
- 3 min
Avoid the biggest mistake in delivering slide presentations — Understand Presentation Mathematics
How much is 1 + 1 in a presentation? 0. Yes, 1 + 1 = 0. And that is roughly how much your audience will remember from what you say if you don’t understand this equation. I call it Presentation Mathematics. How does Presentation Mathematics work? If the presenter talks (the first 1 in the equation) at the same as when they show visual information in a slide which takes longer than up to three seconds to absorb (the second 1), the audience will remember nothing or almost nothin
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akosgerold
- Mar 13, 2021
- 3 min
3 key things most presenters are unaware of when using slides
How do most presenters start preparing a presentation? They flip out PowerPoint, or whichever presentation software they use, and start creating slides. What often happens is that the slides become a list of bullet points of what they wish to say. This approach, however, often hurts their storytelling. Why? Because a well constructed story is typically back engineered. In other words, planning a story that will spur the audience to action starts from defining what the speaker
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akosgerold
- Mar 13, 2021
- 2 min
To use animations and transitions in presentations cleverly, treat them as an expensive commodity
Definitions: An animation in presentation slides is the movement of an object, such as a text box or a picture, within a slide, while a transition is the movement from one slide to the next. Over ten years ago, I attended the Master’s thesis defence of a then colleague of mine. He is a linguist and a self-professed computer enthusiast. The former had provided the topic for the thesis, while the latter had affected how he had created his slides. Probably to show off his PowerP
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