by Dave Hill | Jul 27, 2020 | Communication Strategies, Engagement, Humor, Increase Engagement, Presentation Skills and Communication Strategies, Storytelling, Video Blog
Process to “Scrape Your Brian” to Find Your Funny Stories! I cannot emphasize enough the importance of using funny stories in keynote speeches, workplace meetings, town-hall meetings, presentations, seminars and training. They make your points come alive,...
by Dave Hill | Jul 20, 2020 | Communication Strategies, Engagement, Humor, Increase Engagement, Presentation Skills and Communication Strategies
Leading with Humor and Using Self-Deprecation A great example of leading with humor happened at a technology exchange conference. A senior executive, in the opening keynote, emphasized the need to take risks, push the barriers of technology and make the incredible...
by Dave Hill | Dec 4, 2014 | Increase Engagement, Increase Engagement, Presentation Skills, Presentation Skills and Communication Strategies, Video Blog
Dave Hill provides a funny story that illustrates what can happen when we are not fully engaged in the task at hand. [youtube]http://youtu.be/huOj9v6K9Nc[/youtube]
by Dave Hill | Feb 1, 2014 | Increase Engagement, Presentation Skills, Presentation Skills and Communication Strategies
Wake up! Keep your audience focused by being relevant. Use interactive techniques; vary your presentation. Visualize a meeting where about 40 people are crammed into a conference room listening to technical presentation after technical presentation for a full day....
by Dave Hill | Apr 1, 2012 | Increase Engagement, Presentation Skills, Presentation Skills and Communication Strategies
Visualize a highly technical meeting where there are about 40 people crammed into a conference room. They are listening to technical presentation after technical presentation for a full day. The delivery mode is primarily PowerPoint with lots of wordy data in the...
by Dave Hill | Jun 20, 2011 | Increase Engagement, Presentation Skills, Presentation Skills and Communication Strategies
Imagine you are delivering a presentation and after a while you notice a few people peeking below the table top, covertly checking and answering e-mail, or texting. To make it even worse, you get a question from one of the Crackberry Addicts which causes the other...
