Powerful Presenting For Leaders

We are all sick of back to back Zoom meetings all week long. We yearn for a bit of face to face time. But the shockingly high efficiency that remote presentations and meetings have brought us means that it simply will not disappear when we eventually get to the new normal. There is still significant value in mastering remote presenting, especially when only 5% of leaders are doing even the basics...

David still finds it astonishing how many leaders pass up the chance to present and give it to others to do in their team. This is horrendous both in terms of how it looks and the massive missed opportunities. In this episode, David explains why it is crucial that leaders show some courage, grab the baton and start doing the presentations themselves. He also includes two interview clips of Managin...

Leaders often make one fundamental mistake when presenting that lawyers don't - they will say what they DO want to happen as well as what they DON'T. In this episode, David explains how to manage getting both types of messages across and how he prepared a recent CEO client to do just that. Are you still thinking of a pink elephant?

Life gets the better of us sometimes and I took a step back from a bunch of marketing and publishing stuff including this podcast. In this episode, David explains in more detail why he took a break but more importantly, why he came back and what lessons there are for us as leaders.

Leaders are motivated to either learn by themselves or by going on training courses. This is admirable but deeply flawed. In this episode, David explains why both DIY and training are false economies when it comes to improving presentation skills. He also shares how the ONLY way to be the best version of you when presenting and get there in the shortest possible time is through coaching.

David sees leaders die on their arses when presenting because they rely way too much on data, statistics and graphs. These are the Features of their organisation. Their staff care way less than they imagine. Better leaders talk about the Benefits those features create. But the BEST leaders (top 5%) understand that it is about the MEANING behind the benefit.

Recently, David did a 1-2-1 presentation skills coaching session with a Dubai CEO that turned out to be the most extraordinary one ever. But unfortunately, not for the right reasons. David explains what happened, what he learned from it and how his experience can help you with your presentation skills.

David posted recently that his process for presentation skills called The Presentation Palace is a flexible template that can be applied to ANY presentation. David then received a great challenge saying that this wasn't possible. In this episode, David explains the difference between a flexible template and a prescriptive process.

When assessing a presentation you have either been asked to give or volunteered for, you must ask yourself two questions - are you the right speaker for this presentation and are you the right fit? David did not perform this due diligence for his last presentation in 2020 and for only the second time in 24 years as a speaker, he did not get paid. In this episode, he goes through the whole miserabl...

Everyone prepares like crazy for the big talks which is absolutely the right thing to do. Problem is, that means best practice doesn't become common practice. The only way that happens is by implementing more often. In this episode, David explains how to practice your speaking skills on a regular basis without it taking up a ton more time. He also plays the audio of a video Facebook book review he...

David had a fabulous email this week off someone who had raised a ton of money for his business after working with David. But while this was brilliant, one thing that the guy said in his exit interview was how surprised he was about how much he didn't know before being coached by David. 2021 is going to be an uncertain year but one thing is almost for definite - we will have more time on our hands...

Nearly a year into remote speaking and maybe 1 in 20 leaders are doing a great job presenting through a camera lens. The quality is genuinely appalling.  But virtual speaking is not going away. 2021 has seen many parts of the world go into lockdown - again - so WFH and video meetings are still going to be the norm for the foreseeable future. And the astonishing efficiencies remote speaking has pro...

2020 has been a unique year for speaking. A massive transfer to remote/virtual speaking has been both amazing for its efficiency and incredibly hard because of its reductive nature. David goes through the 20 key things he has learned in 2020 that will also help you in 2021.

In a couple of sessions recently with CEOs, two of David's delegates started making excuses for their bad speaking practice even though they knew they were wrong. In this episode, David explains that if you want to be a presentation rockstar, you have to fight your instinct to continue doing the things you know you shouldn't and start doing the things you know you should. And to STOP using excuses...

David got interviewed recently on a show/podcast with over 100,000 listeners. Not only is a media interview free PR but it is also a fantastic to implement best presentation practice. Listen to David and see how he does!

David got a low score on a talk recently. It was clear that he really didn't appeal to some of those present. But, after licking his wounds, he contacted those who attended for feedback. He was surprised by the result. In this episode, he shares those comments and how to manage getting negative feedback.

In this episode, David is going to share some of the best starts to speeches ever written - and he knows this because he wrote them! In all seriousness, he has written these recently for some major tech companies but much more importantly, he wants to share why he wrote them the way that he did.

The new entrants into the workplace - Generation Z - have the attention span of 8 seconds and watch 5 screens at once. ANY distractions will have them disengage almost instantly. But they are not alone. We all watch TV with our phones in our hands. Attention deficit is something everyone suffers from which is bad news for presenters, particularly when doing remote presentations. David will talk ab...

Everyone waits to become a massive world class expert before sharing amazing knowledge they have. In this episode, David explains why this hurts you as a leader and a speaker.

David has always said that congruency is key to maintain speaking integrity. In this episode, he explains why it is no longer so important to be congruent.

David has been speaking for nearly quarter of a century yet coronavirus has thrown him - and everyone - into the new world of virtual presenting. David shares one massive thing he has changed which he never thought he would ever do.

David recently put up a post on Facebook asking a challenging question. He got a host of totally unexpected responses. This was a timely reminder that it is important to never presume what an audience thinks or knows.

Being a recovering perfectionist, David wants everything to be just right. Unfortunately, this actually negatively affects his speaking. Speaking is a live, organic experience and should be approached as such. In this episode, he explains how to be less like him and learn to go with the flow.

When it comes to being a cracking presenter, it really just comes down to one thing - the 1.5kg lump of grey matter between our ears. Once we master our mindset in relation to speaking, we can make huge strides.

When leaders knock a presentation out of the park, it is the wonderful plaudits that come from the audience that make them feel amazing. But there is another brilliant knock on effect - the effect it has on their team. In this episode, David explains why this is as significant as the love you get in the room and shares three examples of people he has coached who told him this.