Posts by Thomas

We’ve all been there: wishing for death’s cold embrace as we endure a PowerPoint that should never have been created. While a lack of design or even too many slides may be forgivable, the biggest problem is far too much content. How do we go about making sure we keep the content down? Simply put,…

..and it uses one of my favourite hidden features in PowerPoint! Microsoft Office has a huge array of graph and chart options all powered by a recently overhauled charting engine. But as with all software, not everything is included. And there are people like me who have noticed there is no easy chart, SmartArt or…

  This is the last of a three part series where I discuss the varied and far-reaching benefits of clarity in communication. Each part details another reason clarity shows your clients that you are an authority in your field, product or service. In Part One I talked about how clarity leads to both confidence and…

  This is the second of a three part series where I discuss the varied and far-reaching benefits of clarity in communication. Each part details another reason clarity shows your clients that you are an authority in your field, product or service. In Part One I talked about how clarity leads to both confidence and…

  We’ve all seen that speaker. They’re not entirely sure what it is they are trying to say and are rambling and fumbling their way through a lengthy train of thoughts. You struggle to maintain concentration and the flow of this talk but your mind wanders to what’s for lunch. Everyone else in the room…

  Our mental capacity to concentrate is limited. I like to think of this capacity as a bucket – a brain bucket. It has a finite amount of space you can fill with simultaneous tasks and each of those tasks takes some amount of space. Think about when you’re learning to drive, for instance. Your…

  PowerPoint is the most used presentation software in the world. It is installed on basically every PC on the planet and thanks to being relatively easy to use, it is also the most abused piece of software. A tool for good, twisted and morphed into a tool for human torture. And I see you…

  In a room of about 1500, it was incredible to watch an expert communicator work with his audience. Much of the audience had come largely to see Gary Vee talk and you could feel the energy in the room due to a speaker speaking to exactly the right crowd. There is a lot to…

  The reason a lot of presentations struggle to capture an audience is because content is king but it’s treated as an afterthought. Communicating a clear message is the most important and most forgotten aspect of a presentation. ‘After twenty minutes of droning on, I don’t even know what he told us’ So how do…