18 Actions To Optimise your Virtual Meetings

31 August 2023 / All Posts, Effective Communication, Productive Meetings

Doing a virtual presentation can feel like talking to air.You can’t sense the body language in the room, it’s hard ...

Flip the Fillers

30 May 2023 / All Posts, Effective Communication, Featured, Presentations

Want to sound more fluent when presenting? Say goodbye to annoying speech fillers and discover practical techniques to stop using them.

Here’s why your audience is zoning out

16 January 2023 / All Posts, Effective Communication, Presentations, Productive Meetings

Sometimes remote presentations fall as flat as a pancake. To reduce the risk of yours missing the mark, here are 6 reasons why they commonly fail.

How to deal with virtual presentations when you can’t see each other

14 February 2022 / All Posts, Effective Communication, Influencing and Persuasion, Presentations, Productive Meetings

Cameras are off either for you or your audience in a virtual presentation. Here's how to make them more engaging, regardless of who can't see whom.

How to use emotion to get people to act (when you present and for everything else…)

4 October 2021 / All Posts, Effective Communication, Presentations

When you want others to make decisions as a result of your presentations, you need emotion. Here are 10 ways to include emotion that make people want to act: even when the content's dry.

3 ways to use anticipation to keep your audience alert (and wanting what you’ve got)

14 June 2020 / All Posts, Influencing and Persuasion, Presentations

The danger of an audience drifting off mentally when they're in front of you is as imminent online as when ...

7 ways to hook your audience when presenting online

24 May 2020 / All Posts, Effective Communication, Presentations, Productive Meetings

Guilty! I admit it. I've logged into online presentations, turning off the camera and mic.All very convenient as this gave ...

Is your language holding you back?

2 February 2012 / All Posts, Effective Communication, Influencing and Persuasion

A few years ago, I was coaching a senior Banker in creative thinking.  I had some music on my laptop ...