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It's a Nike thing....Just do it!

With Dr Simon Raybould, Curved Vision Theatre

A Google search on presentation skills gives nearly 50 million pages - there’s no shortage of technical help out there. However, I was recently interviewed by a journalist about the presentation skills training I give, and whether or not I thought that the skills you need to make presentations are ‘innate’ or ‘trainable’.

I had a bit of a hard time convincing him that I wasn’t being difficult, it was just that his question was badly formed - presentation skills are innate and trainable. Seriously.

The worst thing a presenter can do is want to be a presenter. It’s not about wanting to present. It’s about having something important to say, and needing to say it. I can’t stress that enough. Unless you have a message, don’t do it. Simple.

Yes, I know, I’m being all philosophical here - but sometimes you just have to step back from the technical stuff about what you’re doing and remember why you’re doing it.

Of course, if you want to talk about the ‘how’, just email via the website: www.curved-vision.co.uk

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .