Presentation skills and Powerpoint
Last week I found time to attend an internal 2-day course on presentations called the Executive Engagement Briefing Skills workshop. It was an excellent course and Brad H. was an excellent coach. Highly recommended. Besides the obvious presentation issues (gesture, posture, projecting energy, how to structure a presentation), we also focussed on understanding the customer issues and some of the parts I normally have problems with such as pausing.
On the Powerpoint side, I learned a new feature: the B key. This is a simple way to blank the powerpoint presentation and refocus the attention of the audience to yourself.
And remember: The Powerpoint content is the “play-by-play” guardrail; the actual presentation should be the “colour-commentary” that makes it worthwhile listening...