In this interview with stand-up comedian David Whitney we talked about...:  

- Fear of public speaking  

- Preparation before getting in front of an audience  

- Storytelling 

- How to find the funny if you are a very serious person  

- Rehearsal  

- How to read the audience in the moment  

- Dealing with a difficult audience  

- What to do before going on stage  

- Public speaking lessons for business professionals  

- and much more...

In this interview with Keynote and Conference Business Speaker Lee Warren we talked about...:  

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If you’d like to learn more about how to create and deliver business presentations that get engagement or the sale, come and say hi at one of our next events in London: http://ideasonstageuk.eventbrite.com

If you want to be able to create and deliver great presentations, you need to make sure you meet 5 key success criteria. Remember the word SCORE:

In this video I unpack the Presentation SCORE method.

Make your next presentation naked. 

There are three key arts of presenting:

Which of the three do you think is the most important one?

You might have a great story to share with your audience, but if you use poor slides that don’t support and reinforce your message, your audience is not going to understand and remember. 

Voice coach Jimmy Cannon shares some great tips for business professionals who want to improve and control their voice for public speaking and presentations (and singing). 

Here are the links I mentioned in the interview: 

- Upcoming FREE events: http://ideasonstageuk.eventbrite.com

- Additional free resources to help you improve your presentations (report, webinar, presentation skills assessment tool): http://bit.ly/presentation-valuebundle

If you were to summarize the objective of a presentation in one word, what would that be? 

This is the very first thing you need to do when preparing presentations. 

What do you think makes a good or bad presentation?