Tips for presenters

Musical Wizard Mozart Be a presentation wizard! Use flexibility within structure. I once had a trainee who, after having explained the structure of a good introduction, objected with the remark: but if everybody applies this, than we all do the same, and all our presentation will be alike! He had a point. This needs more……… Lees verder >

Waarom het hebben van een helikopterview zo essentieel is voor presenteren… Soms heb ik het gevoel dat ik door de bliksem getroffen wordt. Ken je dat? Je leest iets en je denkt, ja dit is het! Je voelt intuïtief aan dat iets zoals “de waarheid” jou op dat moment gevonden heeft. Gisteren overkwam me dat,……… Lees verder >

Why having a helicopter view is so important for presenting… Once in a while, I feel like I am being struck with lightening! Do you know that feeling? You read something and you think, yeay this is it! You intuitively feels that something like “ the truth” hits you in the face. Yesterday I experienced……… Lees verder >

Waarom PowerPoint vaak net een slecht gemixte cocktail is Vraag je jezelf weleens verwonderd af, waarom zaken op een bepaalde manier gedaan worden? Je denkt, het is toch veel logischer om het anders aan te pakken, zodat het veel beter werkt. Je vraagt je af, waarom deze gewoonte aanhoudt, terwijl het zo veel gemakkelijker en……… Lees verder >

Why PowerPoint slides are often like a badly mixed cocktail.   Do you sometimes wonder in astonishment why things are done a particular way? Why it seems so incredible logical to do it another way, so it would be far more effective? You wonder why people keep doing it, although, according to you, it is……… Lees verder >

Hoe vrouwen zichzelf met woorden ondermijnen Vorige week presenteerde Pieter zich voor de groep. Het was een opvallende presentatie, omdat Pieter (een man dus) typisch “lage status” gedrag vertoonde. Gedrag wat nu juist vaak door vrouwen vertoond wordt. Pieter stond niet recht voor zijn publiek, maar met zijn schouder gedraaid en een voet naar achteren.……… Lees verder >

How women undermine themselves with words Last week Pieter presented himself in front of the group. It was conspicuous, since Pieter showed typical low-status behaviour that usually women display. Peter dodged, not standing right in front of the audience. He ended most of his sentences with the tone of his voice going up, as if……… Lees verder >

Last week I trained, together with my colleague John, 2 groups of Phd’s from the University of Maastricht. It was great fun, the group down below consisted of an American, Brazilian, Indonesian, Spanish and a German participant.  

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How do you build the information in your presentation? More than once people ask me what the best way is to build your information? Or in other words, what would be the best lay-out for a presentation? Beside the fact that a presentation should at least contain a beginning, middle and ending, there is no……… Lees verder >

Why we need Head and Earth in a presentation? For 5 minutes the whole class was trying to get some grip. Some of us already tuned out. Others were trying very hard to get to grips with what this presentation was actually about. What was happening here? This presenter was not bad at all. Good……… Lees verder >