by Dave Hill | Dec 7, 2014 | Cost of Ineffective Presentations, Cost of Ineffective Presentations, Presentation Skills, Presentation Skills and Communication Strategies, Video Blog
Dave Hill provides a funny story to illustrate the destructive nature of really bad presenters. The number one thing that audiences hate about bad business presenters is that they turn their backs to the audience and read the slides word-for-word....
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 | Mar 28, 2014 | Communication Strategies, Humor, Humor, Positive Approach, Positive Approach, Presentation Skills, Presentation Skills and Communication Strategies
A presenter’s peers can save the day with clarifications, humor. Learn presentation skills that give you the tools you need. Imagine you are in a room full of highly technical engineers. You are an employee of a consulting company that is presenting information to...
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 | Dec 15, 2013 | Handouts, Presentation Skills, Presentation Skills and Communication Strategies, Seated Presentations
Think about the meetings you have attended where everyone is sitting at a table and someone is trying to convey information and get people to agree. Can you recall times when you were delivering information and no one was paying attention to you? Perhaps attendees...
by Dave Hill | Nov 18, 2013 | Notes, Presentation Skills, Presentation Skills and Communication Strategies
Imagine you are delivering a technical presentation to more than 300 peers at a conference. Your boss had convinced you to develop and deliver the presentation. You are scared to death of speaking in public. As you stand at the lectern holding onto it for dear...