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How to Make your Point the Right Way
In everyday conversation, we often lead up to the point we want to make but when we are taking questions after a presentation, in a job or media interview then we want to do exactly the opposite! Why is this? Because we want to be clear and concise and show with...
How to Succeed at Video Job Interviews
As the adage goes, you don't get a second chance to make a first impression. But never has it been so true in these days of highly competitive job interviews where employers’ pre-screen candidates with a video interview. According to the Institute of Student...
Storytelling to further your career
In presentation training, we focus on storytelling as a way of building emotional connection with the audience. Stories win hearts and minds, inspire and motivate and engage and entertain. In a job interview, stories can be extremely effective. They will help you...
A Job Interview is a Presentation
Every conversation is a presentation, and no conversation has higher stakes than a job interview. To succeed, you need to convince a potential employer you are the right person for the job. Over the past year, I have been coaching people in the art of the effective...
Avoiding Oscar Night Gaffes
Did any of you watch the Oscars last month? The format changed with no host - part of an effort to make the ceremony shorter - due to declining viewing figures in this day and age of shorter attention spans. Whether high profile like the Oscars or for smaller awards...