pSCORE Stage 5: Connection

by Phil Waknell —

pSCORE Stage 5: Connection

Business Presentation Revolution covers the five stages of the Presentation SCORE Method, or pSCORE, giving you a simple, proven process to follow to prepare and deliver successful presentations every time. In this extract from Business Presentation Revolution, author Phil Waknell outlines the fifth and final stage: Connection. Having the fastest, best designed and most attractive car doesn’t guarantee you’ll win the race. The performance of the driver is just as important.

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pSCORE Stage 4: Illustration

by Phil Waknell —

pSCORE Stage 4: Illustration

Business Presentation Revolution covers the five stages of the Presentation SCORE Method, or pSCORE, giving you a simple, proven process to follow to prepare and deliver successful presentations every time. In this extract from Business Presentation Revolution, author Phil Waknell outlines the fourth stage: Illustration. Humans can only process one linguistic input at a time: this means that if you show your audience a slide while you’re speaking, they have to choose either to read or to listen.

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pSCORE Stage 3: Creation

by Phil Waknell —

pSCORE Stage 3: Creation

Business Presentation Revolution outlines the five stages of the Presentation SCORE Method, or pSCORE, giving you a simple, proven process to follow to prepare and deliver successful presentations every time. In this extract from Business Presentation Revolution, author Phil Waknell outlines the third stage: Creation. In the first and second stages, you should already have studied your Audience, their Burning needs and the Context (ABC), set one or more objectives for transforming what your audience believes, feels and/or does, and found all the raw materials necessary to achieve those objectives.

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pSCORE Stage 2: Ideation

by Phil Waknell —

pSCORE Stage 2: Ideation

Business Presentation Revolution outlines the five stages of the Presentation SCORE Method, or pSCORE, giving you a simple, proven process to follow to prepare and deliver successful presentations every time. In this extract from Business Presentation Revolution, author Phil Waknell outlines the second stage: Ideation. The aim of the Ideation stage is to generate all the raw material you need so you are ready to begin creating your presentation. This means you need to find ideas, because ideas are the raw material of a successful presentation.

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pSCORE Stage 1: Foundation

by Phil Waknell —

pSCORE Stage 1: Foundation

Business Presentation Revolution outlines the five stages of the Presentation SCORE Method, or pSCORE, giving you a simple, proven process to follow to prepare and deliver successful presentations every time. In this extract from Business Presentation Revolution, author Phil Waknell outlines the vital first stage: Foundation. If you build a house on sand, it will not be stable; likewise, if you start to prepare a presentation without understanding its context or its audience, you will be setting yourself up for failure.

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How do you prepare yourself before a big presentation?

by Phil Waknell —

How do you prepare yourself before a big presentation?

In this extract from Business Presentation Revolution, published on July 14th 2021, I answer the important question: how do you prepare yourself before a big presentation? Before you take the stage, you need to be comfortable. Audiences don’t appreciate speakers who haven’t prepared properly, don’t know their presentation well enough, and are visibly worrying about what to say next. There are several simple actions you can take before your presentation to maximize your own comfort and help you to deliver a better talk.

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The science of presenting

by Phil Waknell —

 The science of presenting

I’m not a motor mechanic. I don’t play with my car’s engine, hoping to make it run better, because I don’t understand how it works in detail. I leave that to experts who are professionally trained and experienced. The human brain is far more complex than an engine, and we know far less about how it works. Trying to present without learning a little about how the brain works is like throwing a spanner into a car and hoping it will fix the brakes.

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What’s the right tone for Business Presentations?

by Michael Rickwood -

What’s the right tone for Business Presentations?

TED has provided us all with a welcome relief from Death by PowerPoint. Shorter, more personal, more visual and more memorable, we now have thousands of talks to choose from providing us with a learning platform as awesome as Wikipedia. Business has benefited from it in miraculous ways. Garr Reynolds, author of Presentation Zen, once coined a great phrase: the ‘Ted-ification of business presentations’. Thanks in part to TED, but also to a certain extent to the original presentations of Steve Jobs, we all benefit from simpler, clearer, more original, more relevant and dare I say it more entertaining business presentations.

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