by John Quinn | Wed Feb 2018 | Audience Engagement, Live Events, Presentation Training, Presentations, Public Speaking
Remember the basics of presentation preparation for your audience When preparing a presentation, we all remember to think about the basics: what you want to say, the data you need to back it up, any visuals that might help. But what about the people you’re presenting...
by John Quinn | Sun Sep 2017 | Audience Engagement, Live Events, Presentation Training, Presentations, Public Speaking
We’ve all experienced the near death-by-PowerPoint experience… How many times have you sat in a meeting or conference willing it to end and wondering why the presenter is bothering to bore you to death with an uninteresting, boring presentation? If only...
by John Quinn | Mon Aug 2017 | Presentation Training, Presentations, Public Speaking
Flashback to your childhood presentations Do you remember the first time you presented? Well I do! I was just 10 and wanted to read the news in the BBC. Luckily my dad worked for BBC Northern Ireland he was kind enough to take 10 screaming kids all the way to Belfast...
by John Quinn | Tue Oct 2016 | Presentation Training, Presentations, Public Speaking
Okay I apologize, the blog heading is click bait but I just wanted to prove a point. Yet it worked, I have somehow gotten your attention by being a little different or by standing out from the crowd. Very similar to an initial sales lead generated by some clever...
by John Quinn | Sun Sep 2016 | Presentation Training, Presentations
Working in a presentation design agency one of the biggest challenges we face in our business is scope creep. Scope creep usually occurs when the original brief, creeps past the confines of its original goals and objectives. Scope creep can have a number of negative...
by John Quinn | Tue Aug 2016 | Audience Engagement, Presentation Training, Presentations, Public Speaking
Great storytellers generally use a combination of their voice, body language and the story itself to stimulate the imagination of the audience. However can we further develop are impact by using a prop? Let’s look at how to visually tell your story with use of...