by Simon Morton | May 1, 2019 | Eyeful Life, Presentation Delivery Skills
You didn’t have time to prepare properly for your presentation so you’ve decided to go down the ‘throw enough information at them and some of it will stick’ route.Your poor audience are now drowning in data. Much of it irrelevant, almost all of it disconnected. As a...
by Simon Morton | Apr 25, 2019 | Eyeful Life, Presentation Delivery Skills, Presentation Design
I remember sharing my first (and, admittedly, very flaky) business plan with my father. At the time, he held a senior role within a large investment bank and enjoyed all the trappings that come with such a role – a very capable PA, around the clock marketing support...
by Simon Morton | Apr 10, 2019 | Eyeful Life, Presentation Best Practice, Presentation Delivery Skills, Presentation Storytelling
You have to feel a little sorry for today’s B2B buyer. They are relentlessly bombarded with unprecedented levels of ‘sales noise’ from every angle. Every day they face a plethora of social media platforms and carefully targeted online engagements ready to leap from...
by Simon Morton | Mar 21, 2019 | Eyeful Life, Presentation Best Practice, Presentation Delivery Skills
It really doesn’t matter where, what or to whom you’re presenting, there’s no getting away from the fact that presentations are a pretty big deal. Presentations are a unique opportunity to share your ideas, vision and knowledge to an audience who, at least to start...
by Simon Morton | Mar 11, 2019 | Eyeful Life, Presentation Best Practice, Presentation Delivery Skills
“To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail”PowerPoint is ubiquitous.Of course, it’s the tool of choice for presenters (not always a good thing) but it’s managed to work its way into the fabric of everyday life. From people using PowerPoint as...
by Simon Morton | Mar 7, 2019 | Eyeful Life, Presentation Best Practice, Presentation Delivery Skills, Presentation Storytelling
I have often joked that should our marketing team ever run short of leads, the best course of action would be to head directly to the nearest Starbucks or Costa at around 9ish on any work day. The reason? In every coffee shop in every major city in the UK, there are...