For over a decade, our team at Mindful Presenter have been helping professionals all over the world to stop presenting and start connecting. We’re making good progress but still have a long way to go. In our experience, most people don’t like presenting and many don’t like the idea of being presented to either.[…]
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Maurice Decastro
It’s time to stop presenting and start connecting
Presentation Skills, Presentation Tips, Public Speaking Dec 23, 2022
12 Common Presentation Time Wasters
Presentation Skills, Presentation Tips, Public Speaking Dec 16, 2022
There are many presentation time-wasters that professionals experience every day. Sometimes a good way to learn what to do, is to know what not to do first. If you want to eliminate these habits for good, our presentation skills training can help you present with clarity and impact. We are living in the information age[…]
Would you like to know the truth about high impact presenting? I ask the question mindfully in the knowledge that there are a great number of myths about what it takes to become an effective presenter. In a previous article, ‘10 Common Public Speaking Myths We Need To Dispel Immediately,‘ I wrote: ‘Don’t let the[…]
Are you a Mindful Presenter? To be a really good presenter you don’t have to be a slick, memorised and polished speaker who is word perfect. Mindfulness is the key In this context, you’ll know if you are a Mindful Presenter if you have a high level of self-awareness. That entails having real insight and[…]
Presentation assassins come in all forms and every shape and size, they are everywhere. They look just like you and I but you’ll recognise them the moment they begin to present. Do whatever it takes to avoid them and make sure that whatever happens, you never become one. Public speaking and presenting isn’t particularly easy[…]
Presentation Nightmare Lessons from Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares
Presentation Skills, Presentation Tips, Public Speaking Nov 06, 2022
It recently occurred to me that many of the presentation nightmares professionals experience are akin to, ‘Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares.’ Despite not having a culinary bone in my body, I’ve recently taken a liking to Chef Ramsay. Perhaps, it’s because we have something in common. I’d like to think that I don’t have the same[…]
