Surprise gets attention, but its effects are fleeting. Is there something that can provoke an attention more enduring? There is. It’s what Samuel Johnson believed the “first passion and the [...]
Surprise is one of the presenter’s best friends. Why? Because it’s all about that most valuable commodity: audience attention. Professor Bryan Boyd suggests that our minds exist to do one thing: [...]
Just in! After more than twenty years watching thousands of presentations, here are the long-awaited conclusions. Below you will find a cutting-, nay, bleeding-edge toolbox of …er, tools to help [...]
Hegel believed that simply stating an argument was enough to bring counter-arguments immediately to mind. If a presenter ignores these arguments, what do we do? Most likely we ask ourselves why. [...]
Films get straight to the action. The audience is immediately engaged in the story. Films don’t begin with a long list of thank-yous and background details. The beginning is the single most [...]
As Bill Clinton’s advisors told him, “If you say three things, you say nothing”. One of the easiest mistakes to make in giving a presentation is to include too many things. Easy because preparing [...]