Hari Patience-Davies considers the pros and cons of scripted prose when it come to speechwriting. Continue reading “To script or not to script – how do you write your speeches?”
Category: Presentation skills
Advice for presenters
Hari Patience-Davies shares how a wardrobe challenge changed her work uniform. Continue reading “Finding the perfect dresses for Zoom”
Discover five great presentation tips from an Agile expert. Continue reading “Don’t introduce yourself – and other great advice from Jeff Gothelf”
Hari Patience-Davies shares how to stop using filler words like “er,” “ah” and “so.” Continue reading “How to filter out filler words”
When developing your presenting and public speaking skills, it helps to get feedback on your performance, but how can you do that when practising alone…? Continue reading “How to be your own audience”
Hari Patience-Davies shares her choices for an Autumn 2021 reading list. Three new books with something interesting to say about communications and storytelling. Continue reading “PDC’s Autumn 2021 reading list”
Hari Patience-Davies shares four ways to get people to turn on their cameras and be more comfortable on screen. Continue reading “Four ways to get people to turn their webcams on”
Hari Patience-Davies offers six easy body language hacks – three dos and three don’ts for virtual calls. Continue reading “Three body language dos and don’ts for virtual calls”
Hari Patience-Davies shares three ways of engaging and sharing information with an audience that aren’t a PowerPoint deck. Continue reading “Ditch the deck – three great supporting materials that aren’t PowerPoint”
Activist and author Glennon Doyle revealed how she practices her speeches in a recent episode of Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel, a podcast from Linkedin, and it’s genuinely fascinating. Continue reading “Glennon Doyle’s speech practice – how to use recordings to practice your speech”