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The next course will take place on the 8th & 9th November 2011. This ‘Business Presentation Skills’ course is designed to allow you to stand up and deliver your message with ‘Confidence and Competence’. You will be in a comfortable environment with a handful of other people (maximum of six) seeking similar outcomes to yourself. […]

No, I don’t think it’s a case of them being afraid of newer technologies at all, it more about having some sort of safe guard system in place to make sure that they do not forget what to say next. PowerPoint ideally provides them with a large screen that has their next point clearly indicated […]

Greetings and welcome to the October Edition of TorqueTime. The country is buzzing with the World Cup and we hope that you are enjoying the great sensation around New Zealand as everyone gets in behind the boys in black. As far as I am concerned, Black is about as good as it can get when […]

Basically, what we’re doing is looking for aspects about the person that are ‘like ourselves’, if we find enough similarities then we ‘like’ the person, or it could be said that they made a good first impression on us. So in order to improve the first impressions you are giving out, consider using the same […]

You might want to consider not leaving the question session to the very end. Perhaps have a strong closing statement that you can use once the Q&A session is finished. This will protect your ‘closing’ and allow you to finish on a high note. Here are some ideas worth remembering once you ask for questions: […]

Localizing your presentation can create a better sense of empathy with the audience. It also proves to the audience that you think they are important enough to do extra research and study. We always like people who make us feel important. Here are some examples: If you live in Auckland and are presenting in Wellington, […]

You don’t need to use all seven but you might want to use all of them as a guideline when preparing and writing your next presentation. The more of the seven points you can incorporate into the presentation the more likely a better outcome. 1) Be Relative Experts tell us that humans are thinking about […]

If you feel the pressure of everyone looking at you as the presenter then look at people’s foreheads. Even from one metre away, it will appear to them (the audience) that you are looking them in the eye. Instead of just moving your head to make eye contact try occasionally angling your body in the […]

English speakers lob in ‘um’ before a long pause and ‘uh’ in front of a brief hiatus. People even create compounds such as ‘the-um’ or ‘and-uh’, showing that speakers know that there is going to be a problem after the word even before they begin it.   Also, beginning an answer with ‘um’ is interpreted as […]

Greetings and welcome to the Easter Edition of TorqueTime. Here’s a challenge… It is easy to convince ourselves that we can’t change a lot of the things that impact upon our lives, whereas quite the opposite is true. It is our individual beliefs, values and sense of self worth that form who we are and […]