Hari Patience-Davies shares how taking two minutes to hold a power pose can have a real impact on your confidence. Continue reading “Power Pose to boost your confidence”
Category: Tools and techniques
Storytelling tools and techniques you may find helpful
Hari Patience-Davies shares her rules for building charts in PowerPoint and others.
Continue reading “Three things to keep in mind when building charts”
Hari Patience-Davies shares some easy breathing techniques for dealing with public speaking anxiety. Continue reading “Two great breathing techniques to calm your nerves”
Hari Patience-Davies explains two techniques to hook your audience’s attention from the start of any speech or presentation. Continue reading “Hook your audience – how to grab their attention from the start”
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?”
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 why we shouldn’t lie when telling stories at work, but how that doesn’t mean we can never use fiction… Continue reading “How to use fictional stories without telling lies”