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The next course will take place on the 30th & 31st May 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. […]

We’ve once again won the Corporate Events Guide People’s choice Award for Best Trainers in New Zealand. A huge thanks to everyone who voted and for us. I’d like to think the reason why we’ve won the last two years in a row is because what we do, works. I get a real ‘kick’ from […]

Greetings and welcome to the March Edition of TorqueTime. To all of our friends in Christchurch, sometimes words are not enough, yet for some they are all we can offer. You are foremost in our thoughts and in our minds. We will not forget you nor abandon you. In this edition we’ll try to help […]

Question Sessions: I’ve just selected some of the better recommendations you might want to incorporate into your next question session: Allow time for questions. Your Q&A (Questions and Answers) form part of the presentation so make sure you allow for questions and then finish under time. If you go ‘over time’ then you will lose […]

Introductions If you are the MC or you’ve landed the role of introducing the speaker then you need to have a simple formula that allows you to quickly gather the right information (about the speaker) and place it in the correct order. So here’s the formula, I’ve used myself as the person to introduce by […]

The Magic ‘3’ In a recent speech US President Obama cited something along the following lines, “It doesn’t matter if you are a farmer in Alabama, a car maker in Detroit or a banker on Wall Street, we each have a responsibility to foster and develop all that is good about America…”. The reference to […]

We’ve once again won the ‘Corporate Events Guide Peoples Choice Awards for 2010 as Best Nationwide Trainers’. We were thrilled to have won the title last year and to win it again is a real honour. Thank you to those who took the time to vote for us and we hope to continue to provide […]

Season’s Greetings and welcome to the Christmas Edition of TorqueTime and the final one for 2010. All of us here at Torque just wanted to say a huge ‘Thank You’ to all those who voted for us in the recent Corporate Events Guide People’s Choice Awards. You made us the Over-all winners for the “Best […]

Write the Presentation Right I must give a presentation on topic XYZ so I’ll open up PowerPoint and create a title page called “XYZ”, I’ll even put my name and company and date on there as well. Then I’ll add a slide that tells them I’ll be addressing points A, B and C. Now I’ll […]

V.A.R.K. We are all aware that we use different senses to collect and retain data, in fact we have a preference for one and then another as secondary and the third to a lesser degree still. As a presenter you have no idea as to who in your audience prefers ‘what’ sense – so it […]