by Denis Francois Gravel | May 31, 2018 | Language : English, Speaking Tips
Repeat questions before answering them. Especially if the room is big. Repeating the question allows all participants to hear the question (especially if you are using a microphone). Remember that the participant who asked the question was projecting his voice towards...
by Denis Francois Gravel | Apr 8, 2018 | Language : English, Slides, Speaking Tips
Avoid text-heavy slides. Simplify, simplify and simplify. Too much text forces the audience to invest a good share of their cognitive capacity to read, decipher, interpret, and understand your slides. As a result, he pays less attention to what you say. A good visual...
by Denis Francois Gravel | Feb 28, 2018 | Activity, Language : English, Speaking Tips
A visit to Toronto is the source of today’s presentation tip. A city? Who inspires a presentation tip? It sounds strange. But that’s exactly what happened. Here’s how. I went to Toronto last November to do a training course at Laurentian Bank. Since the training is in...
by Denis Francois Gravel | Oct 9, 2014 | Tools
Microsoft is announcing a new application in the Office suite: Sway. “An entirely different way to express yourself and bring your ideas to life”. Is this the end of PowerPoint? A « Sway », that’s the name of the canvas created with the application,...
by Denis Francois Gravel | May 23, 2014 | From the Web, Language : English, Speaking Tips
Links and news about presentation gathered in last week (May 23, 2014) 11 choses à ne jamais dire dans nos présentations (anglais) par @XCamilleWong & @empoweredpres via @SlideShareToday http://t.co/ZJW1vHtLgB — Denis F. Gravel (@PRESENTabilite) 21 Mai 2014...
