Blog posts

Avoid the Day of the Zoom Zombies!

“Welcome to the terrifying world of the Zoom Zombie… coming to a work place near you. A wall of faces, emotionless, dead eyes, voices of presenters a low drone, endless … slowly sucking the life from all who see them.” 

If this trailer rings true  - and I suspect for the majority of businesses it does, then there is a hideous cost. Here's some stats and they’re scarier than real Zombies.

Podcast with Michael Levitt, Breakfast Leadership Network Show

Interview with Jon Rennie - Deep Leadership Podcast.

Here’s my interview with Jon Rennie  - creator of the hugely popular Deep Leadership Podcast. Huge fun, in which talked about the challenges of Leadership Presentation in the virtual world. Enjoy.

How to lose your client during a video-call

An ad agency got in touch recently, because they’d just lost a huge client pitch via Teams and wanted to win them back.  When they asked the client what had gone wrong, they were told it was because they didn't look like they wanted it. Ironically the opposite was true...

Standing Out

When it comes to business presentations, most speakers play far too safely and don’t get close to the line. The result is dull, turgid presentations that actually become dangerous because the audience is bored. Most presentations could do with a little more innovation without risking your presentation. As Mark Zuckerberg says, “The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.” 

10 presentation tips I've learnt since lockdown

Jack Milner

I was having a Zoom lunch (non-messy disappears quickly!) with my wonderful mentor and friend, Andrew. I was telling him that business was going surprisingly well… Then he did what every good mentor should do (particularly when you're getting a little cocky), challenged me. “You doing all these virtual sessions, you must have learnt quite a few new things..?”

Me, “Um, um um… Oh um…”