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How to Handle Difficult Questions
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, Communications, Presentation Skills Training, Public Speaking Skills, Video on March 21, 2011
Answering questions after a presentation can sometimes get tricky, especially if you don’t have the right answer for every question. TJ Walker provides tips and advise to answer questions you may think you can’t answer.
Improve Body language During a Presentation
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, Body Language, Communications, Presentation Skills Training, Public Speaking Skills, Video on March 21, 2011
How to improve your body language during a presentation so that you come across comfortable and confident, and that your message is the main focus.
ProPrompter App Review for ipad/iphone
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, Communications, Keynote Speaking, PowerPoint, Presentation Skills Training, Technology, Video on March 17, 2011
Best Tools for Pitching to Angel Investors
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, CEOs/Financial, Communications, Help, Pitching, Presentation Skills Training, Public Speaking Skills, Video on March 16, 2011
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How do I Keep my Audience Awake?
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, Communications, Help, PowerPoint, Presentation Skills Training, Video on March 15, 2011
How you can make a financial presentation more interesting so that you can hold on to the audience’s attention and not put them to sleep.
Using Visuals in Financial Presentations
Posted by TJ Walker in Communications, Help, PowerPoint, Presentation Skills Training, Public Speaking Skills, Video on March 15, 2011
It is always important to have visuals in any presentation to enhance audience understanding and participation.
What Questions Should my Elevator Pitch Answer?
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, Communications, Pitching, Presentation Skills Training, Video on March 15, 2011
This video shows what questions an elevator pitch must answer in order to achieve what it needs to and how the content of your elevator pitch is crucial.
Will Information about Competitors take Away from My Financial Presentation?
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, CEOs/Financial, Communications, Help, Presentation Skills Training, Video on March 15, 2011
It is important to include information about your competition in your financial presentation so that your audience knows you have an industry for your product and that you are well educated about both the products and people.
FORBES.com – Never, Ever, Ever, Ever Apologize
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, Communications, Presentation Skills Training, Public Speaking Skills on March 14, 2011
Um, hi. I was planning on writing a great chapter here, but, um, well, you see, I just got a new upgrade on my Windows opeartiang system this morning and I haven’t figured out how to use all of the new elements of my MS Word program.
I meant to learn my new system earlier last week, but I had to fly to Wahington, DC and then stay an extra day, so things have been in a real rush this week. Also, Im afrid I havent learnd how to use my new speel check function, so youll half to bare with me. Will you accept my apologies?
Read the full article at Forbes.com
Why do I need an Elevator Pitch?
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, Communications, Help, Pitching, Presentation Skills Training, Video on March 14, 2011
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If you are giving a financial presentation to high powered investors or simply briefing employees on this months productivity, an elevator pitch is important and crucial. Tips on how to create and deliver and why it is important.
What is the Disadvantage of Using PowerPoint?
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, Communications, Help, PowerPoint, Presentation Skills Training, Public Speaking Skills, Video on March 14, 2011
PowerPoint can certainly make or break any presentation. So its always important to use it as a presentation tool, not as the presentation itself. The disadvantage of PowerPoint comes when people misuse the tool and completely bore their audience.
How to Make Your Numbers Come Alive in Financial Presentations
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, CEOs/Financial, Communications, Help, Presentation Skills Training, Video on March 11, 2011
How you can make your financial presentations more comprehensive for viewers and more interesting to yield better results and achieve more effective communication.
FORBES.com – “Making The Best Of A Bad Situation”
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, Communications, PowerPoint, Presentation Skills Training on March 10, 2011
If you work for a big corporation, sooner or later, someone is going to ask you to deliver their PowerPoint Presentation. And he or she will demand that you don’t change a single element of the presentation (and they can get away with it because they are your boss).
Here’s the problem: the slide show you are given is horrible! Each slide is dense with row after row of numbers, bullet points are strewn about generously on each page and complex graphs are squeezed in four to a slide. In short, you are asked to deliver a PowerPoint slide from hell.
Four Ways to Data Dump
Posted by TJ Walker in PowerPoint, Presentation Skills Training, Public Speaking Skills, Training Community on March 5, 2011
What do you do if you have an incredibly large amount of data that you must present to an audience, but you are limited to a strict time amount of, say 10-30 minutes?
By far, the absolute worst mistake you could make is to do the following: cram every fact you can find into a bullet point and then on a PowerPoint and then race through that PowerPoint in front of your audience. You can guarantee that no one will remember anything you say if you try this technique (though you will be in good company, since this is what most bad-to-average presenters do).
Presentation Training Tip: If you get invited to give a speech, then speak. If you get invited to a reading, then read. (However, great authors don’t read at their own book readings, they tell stories instead.)
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, Presentation Skills Training, Professional Speakers, Social Speaking, Speaking Competition, speech writing, Story Telling, Student Speak on March 4, 2011
Presentation Training Tip: If you get invited to give a speech, then speak. If you get invited to a reading, then read. (However, great authors don’t read at their own book readings, they tell stories instead.)
SPEAKING TIP OF THE DAY: Cliches work great with the media but make you sound unintelligent when delivering a speech.
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, Pitching, PowerPoint, Presentation Skills Training, Professional Speakers on March 3, 2011
SPEAKING TIP OF THE DAY: Cliche?s work great with the media but make you sound unintelligent when delivering a speech.
FORBES.com: PowerPoint Is NOT a TelePrompTer
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, PowerPoint, Presentation Skills Training, Professional Speakers on March 2, 2011
One of the biggest misconceptions about PowerPoint is that it can and should be used as a TelePrompTer for a speaker. A TelePrompTer is a machine that newscasters use to read their scripts while looking into the camera. Read more from TJ at FORBES.com
Was Colin Firth Rehearsed?
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, celebrities, media relations, Presentation Skills Training, Video on February 28, 2011
TJ Walker comments on Firth’s Oscar acceptance speech for best actor. Overall a class act and a grade of A-.
How Important Are Presentation Skills?
Posted by TJ Walker in Pitching, Presentation Skills Training on February 26, 2011
When I flick through my 1000 plus channels of digital cable TV I am often struck by the fact that there are entire networks devoted to poker skills, golf skills, gardening skills, even tile grouting skills! And yet there is no TV network devoted entirely to presentation skills.
Why?
Pakistani Minister Gives Worst Speech Ever
Posted by TJ Walker in Communications, Government & Politics, Media Training, Presentation Skills Training, Public Speaking Skills on February 25, 2011
The title of the video below is “Pakistani Minister gives worst speech ever.” You can see for yourself; it does seem like truth in advertising. At the end of the speech, the minister collapses. I hope he is OK and I don’t want to seem like I’m kicking someone who is down. Still, it is a phenomenally bad speech. Take a look.
Pakistani Minister Delivers Worst Speech Ever – Watch more Funny Videos
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