Category: Speechwriting & Presentations
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Working with Clients
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I’d been presented with a challenge this week working with a client to translate an aspect of their intellectual property into a presentation. The challenge was I just couldn’t work out what was in their mind. I heard all their words – I couldn’t grasp their import, I couldn’t translate…
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Tweaking that Presentation
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A lady messaged me the other day to ask me a question. She was actually a friend and knew that I had something to do with helping people present to audiences and wanted to ask a favour. I got in touch and asked her: “What’s on your mind?” “Malcom, you…
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The Metaphor of the Week
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It’s all smirk and mirrors. – Federal Opposition Leader, Anthony Albanese Budget reply speech from the Opposition Leader included this zinger. Depends on what side of the political fence you sit on, which will determine whether it is relevant or not. But whichever way you look at it, it seems…
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Photography
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Anyone who has done a photography course, or is good at photography, will know that it about how you look at a scene is the key. I’ve been over-focussing on the techniques involved and how to master them, when all along it was how to view the world. Angles, diminishing…
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Speech Competition Coaching
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Does your child have an upcoming speech that may need some support? Are they entering a competition that needs some finessing? Well, first, congratulations to them for putting their hat in the arena! What a brave decision to stand in front of peers and judges and to share your views…
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Happy Sheets
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Post-Workshop Surveys are often unintentionally intended to ensure that everyone was happy with the workshop and generally had a beneficial day. Organisers probably expect one or two suggestions of improvement, but after all the effort they put into the event, they expect the positive to well outweigh the negative. In…
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I’m a great fan of Toastmasters
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Toastmasters is a great organisation that has taught me so much about leadership and communication. Its meetings are like mini-laboratories where I can try out things, get feedback and then try them again. I practice all my major presentations and speeches in club meetings and the enhancement that provides impacts…
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Rewarding your employees
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There has always been a school of thought that employees are motivated by reward or acknowledgement. A congrats, a thank you, a well done, even a medal. But the sort of employee you want is the type that rewards themselves, through their own self-motivation.