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3 Presentation Tips – Interview sneak peek

January 15, 2010 in Corporate Presentability, Ideas Presentability, Language : English, Langue : Français, People Presentability, Slides, Speaking Tips | 4 comments


I am not sure it was a good idea to accept this interview.

While I was driving, ideas where popping in my head. How is it possible to have something to say to fill 25 min? Will I be interesting? You know, that kind of thing.

It took less than 2 minutes to Davender to make me feel comfortable. He does this naturally with his large smile and his sincere interest in what we have to discuss.


Screenshot of the interview of Denis Francois Gravel by Davender Gupta

Interview of Denis Francois Gravel by Coach Davender


We agree on some topics to discuss and we start the interview.

It runs really smooth. Like a conversation in your living room.

Finally, we are so passionate about the discussion that we have to stop it without covering everything because we’re running out of time.

Reading the post of Davender about the interview, I suppose I wasn’t so bad.

I had a great interview this morning with Denis-François Gravel, an authority on how to use presentation technologies to improve your ability to communicate.

“An authority”! Wow!, that’s good for my ego.

You will have the chance to judge if the interview is interesting, it will be broadcast on Monday January 18 at 6:00 P.M. (Eastern time) at “Radio Passion au Profit.“ The interview is in French. It wills also be available in podcast after the broadcast.

Until then, here is a video teaser (the full interview is audio only)



Thanks to Davender for his kindness and for the great comments on his blog and on Twitter.


Davender is a business leadership coach. He is involved in several regional, national and international business networks and associations including Réseau META Québec-Lévis (President), Toastmasters (Division I Governor, District 61).

For more information about Davender, you can visit his Web site, read is blog “from passion to profit” or follow him on Twitter @coachdavender


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3 Trucs de présentation – Un aperçu de l’entrevue



Toutes mes appréhensions sont immédiatement disparues dès le début de l’entrevue pour la radio « De la Passion au Profit ».

En me rendant à mon rendez-vous, je me questionne. Est-ce que je vais figer? De quoi vais-je parler pour remplir 25 minutes d’entrevue?

Heureusement, je sais que Davender est très sympathique et que la formule de son émission est sans prétention. Ça me rassure.

Sur place, tout se déroule sans stress, Davender est accueillant (comme toujours). Il prend le temps de discuter avec moi pour que nous soyons tous les deux confortables avec les grandes lignes de la rencontre.

Et c’est parti….

Capture d’écran : entrevue Denis François Gravel & Davender Gupta

Entrevue de Denis Francois Gravel avec Coach Davender


Tout ce déroule comme une conversation naturelle. Le ton est agréable, la discussion est passionnante, captivante, hypnotisante.

L’entrevue est à ce point intéressante, qu’après avoir dépassé la durée prévue, nous devons conclure même si nous n’avons couvert qu’une minorité des sujets prévus.

Si je me fie aux commentaires de Davender sur son blogue (anglais), l’entrevue semble à la hauteur.

I had a great interview this morning with Denis-François Gravel, an authority on how to use presentation technologies to improve your ability to communicate.

Je vous invite à écouter l’entrevue lors de sa diffusion. J’espère qu’elle sera aussi intéressante pour vous qu’elle l’a été pour moi.

La diffusion aura lieu le lundi 18 janvier à 18h00 (heure de l’Est) sur « Radio De la Passion au Profit ». L’entrevue est en français.

Question de vous garder en haleine jusque-là, voici un aperçu vidéo de l’entrevue (bien que l’entrevue au complet soit seulement en audio).



Je tiens à remercier Davender pour sa gentillesse, son attention et les bons mots qu’il a eus suite à l’entrevue.


Davender Gupta est un coach en leadership et il est passionné par le succès. Il est impliqué dans plusieurs organisations régionale, nationale et internationale. Mentionnons qu’il est président du  Réseau META Québec-Lévis et qu’il est gouverneur du District 61 des Toastmasters.

Pour plus d’informations sur Davender :

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Why You Should Put Less Text in Your Slides

January 2, 2010 in Ideas Presentability, Language : English, Slides, Speaking Tips | 6 comments


Most people complain about boring presentation that uses slides that looks like walls of text.

The brain don’t have the ability to listen et read all that text at the same time.

According to Microsoft, the average slide shows 40 words.


25 Years of PowerPoint


The BBC published an interesting article about the subject

You think bullet points make information more digestible? Think again. A dozen slides with five bullet points on each assumes that people are mentally capable of taking in a list of 60 points. If it’s a 30-minute presentation, that’s a rate of two-per-minute.

This looks a fairly interesting visual aid

This highlights the biggest problem with slide-based presentations, which is that speakers mistakenly think that they can get far more information across than is actually possible in a presentation.

I invite you to read the BBC article.


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How to create a magazine cutout look for your next presentation

December 18, 2009 in Language : English, Slides, Speaking Tips | 4 comments

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Does all the corporate presentation look the same? Boring plain corporate template?

David Anderson demonstrates, in this online tutorial, how to create a different slide design for your next presentation. It is a magazine cutout look.

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Picture: Magazine Cutout Effect

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This tutorial is for E-learning Design and Development. However, as it is based on PowerPoint, we can use some of its ideas for public speaking.

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By David Anderson. You can reach him on Twitter (@elearning) & at multimedialearning.com


UPDATE: Vivek Singh published some pertinent observations about this magazine cutout look:

1. Situation: You need to know when to use this technique and how. This template design should be used for informal situations and definitely not for quarterly review presentations. However, marketers and advertising professionals do have some more ‘creative’ liberty to use it in formal settings.

You can read his observation in his blog


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How to reduce the text in your slides

November 11, 2009 in Ideas Presentability, Language : English, Slides, Speaking Tips | 4 comments

Too often, we come across a speaker who puts way too much text on it slide.

Text is good for reading. Got it? READING. Not listening.

Which means that if you put text on your slides, the audience will read it INSTEAD of listening to you.

A bit of text can be fine. However, too much will distract the audience.

Jan Schultink the author of stickyslides.blogspot.com made this « presentation lessons for entrepreneurs presentation ». I hope it will inspire you too reduce the quantity of text in your presentation.

Downloadable PDF of the presentation lessons for entrepreneurs presentation


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Audience will not understand your numbers

September 13, 2009 in Ideas Presentability, Language : English, Slides, Speaking Tips | 5 comments

It is hard for the human brain to conceptualize huge numbers. It is simply out of reach. If you present huge numbers to an audience, you have to keep that fact in mind.

As a speaker, we need to translate those numbers into something more concrete, understandable, digestible.

Today, I came across this illustration of the size of the Internet. It gives the answer for the question: How big is the Internet? It is named: If you printed the Internet. It is a good example of huge numbers translation.

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Those illustrations are effective because they translate the numbers in something we know. Minutes, days, years.

Sometimes, the numbers are still too big after being transposed. We need a second transposition.  3 800 years doesn’t mean anything to me. It is too big.  Imagining Ancient Babylonians with inkjet printer is more effective. That comparison is talking to me.

While presenting data in a document or, while speaking, we must translate it to be reachable. We have to put it at audience level.

Best, adapt the example to your audience. If you’re talking to car dealers, tell them: If you printed the Internet, you will have enough paper to fill the trunk of 12 000 cars (I am guessing). How big is 12 000 cars? Bumper to bumper, it is a 66 km long file. THAT means something to car dealers.  (Adapting your speech to an audience – blog post: Put your audience glasses)

In your next speech, make your number digestible and adapt your example to your audience.

Other illustrations in the complete post of: If You Printed The Internet …

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