Grab a shovel for episode seventy of The Presentation Boss Podcast. Today we're going hunting for actual dinosaurs and along the way will learn about the science and maths of evolution and the morality of our ecosystem. In this breakdown, Thomas selected this Talk from the TED Talks Daily podcast and we play it for you while we make comment along the way about what works so well in this speech. Not only will you meet the recently discovered 'Dreadnoughtus', but will hear the beautifully scripted speech presented here. Kate and Thomas discuss the speech patterns, the use of visuals and the literary genius of this engaging talk. It's a fascinating speech, well crafted and with loads to learn about presentation skills. Also, dinosaurs! What You'll Learn • A 'through the front door' approach to introducing the structure for your presentation • Building curiosity by asking questions of your audience; even if they've never considered them before • The power of simplicity, even in otherwise complex topics • Use of metaphor and anchoring in your presentation to crystallise ideas • How a well crafted script, and careful preparation can sound when done brilliantly • Why you should show your passion and love in presentations • Using PowerPoint and imagery to provide context and backdrop to your topic • Imagery animations to add visual interest • An easy and simple way to add humour and lightness to presentations • Being aware of repetitive speaking patterns and ensuring it doesn't become distracting • The 'sudden stop' speaking technique for contrast and intensity Mentioned In The Show • Kenneth Lacovara | "Hunting for dinosaurs showed me our place in the universe" Resources and Links • Email us: podcast@presentationboss.com.au • The Presentation Boss Podcast: https://presentationboss.com.au/podcast/ • Kate on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kate-norris/ • Thomas on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-krafft/ • Presentation Boss on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/presentationboss/ • Presentation Boss on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/presentation-boss

Grab a friend for episode sixty-nine of The Presentation Boss Podcast! We know there is a lot of tiredness around poor slide use. Unfortunately use of presentation software it is not taught as standard on any scale. And with PowerPoint being the ubiquitous term, there is always someone, somewhere thinking about how to avoid 'Death by PowerPoint'. And often, the answer can be to move to another app, program or software to help ease that pain. At Presentation Boss, we see five big players in the presentation software world. These five hold either a big market share, or are often cited as good alternatives to the usual PowerPoint. In this episode we discuss the options, our experience with them, their features/benefits and where they each fall down. Plus, at the end Thomas outlines exactly which products he recommends and why. Spoiler alert: we point towards planning and designing above software choice! But, there are options, some are better at some things, so let's talk about that! And next week, we'll discuss all the non-electronic alternatives to slides! The Options We Discuss: • Prezi • Apple Keynote • Google Slides • Canva Presentations • Microsoft PowerPoint Our Ratings for Each Software/App: • Prezi: Ease of use, low. Features/flexibility, medium. Looks good, high. • Keynote: Ease of use, high (for Mac users). Features/flexibility, high. Looks good, medium. • Google Slides: Ease of use, medium. Features/flexibility, medium. Looks good, medium. • Canva: Ease of use, high. Features/flexibility, medium. Looks good, high. • PowerPoint: Ease of use, high. Features/flexibility, high. Looks good, high Resources and Links • Email us: podcast@presentationboss.com.au • The Presentation Boss Podcast: https://presentationboss.com.au/podcast • Kate on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kate-norris • Thomas on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-krafft • Presentation Boss on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/presentationboss • Presentation Boss on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/presentation-boss

Step into episode sixty-eight of The Presentation Boss Podcast. Life's a pitch. And today's guest knows a thing or two about the art and science of the successful pitch. Sure, we've all seen the TV shows, trying to secure squillions of investment for a new business. But Colin Kinner reminds us that we are always pitching ideas. Whether we're in sales, in a family or in a corporate team. Heck, you may even be pitching your side-hustle business! And that's why you should listen to this episode. Kate and Thomas have a great conversation with Colin who specialises not just in this aspect of entrepreneurship but also has a deep understanding of presentations too. They all learn something from this episode from practice techniques, to neuroscience and how direct we should be asking for what we want. If you ever need to share your ideas, don't miss this episode! About Our Guest Colin Kinner is the founder and CEO of Startup Onramp, a training and mentoring program for startup founders. Over the last fifteen years he has worked with over 300 startup teams, helping them to launch and grow globally scalable companies. He is a regular speaker on the topic of high-impact entrepreneurship, and has advised corporates and governments on entrepreneurship and innovation programs. Colin is also an experienced educator. He has trained hundreds of emerging entrepreneurs and is a strong believer that delivering convincing presentations is a skill anyone can learn. In his work with startups, Colin focuses on creating compelling pitches, ensuring that founders can communicate their company's value proposition to customers, investors, employees and the media. What You'll Learn • What exactly is a pitch; and how is it designed to persuade • Where the pitch for an idea exists within a conversation • How to ask yourself the right questions to put together your best pitch • The main purpose and structure of a pitch • Exactly what Colin believes makes the difference between an average and an awesome pitch • A brilliant rehearsal method to ensure you internalise what you want to communicate • The differences in proposals depending on culture, and what we can learn from others • Some neuroscience around internal BS detectors and navigating your truth • The power of showing your presentation to lookalike audiences, and what you should get from them Mentioned In The Show • Colin Kinner's Startup Onramp Resources and Links • Email us: podcast@presentationboss.com.au • The Presentation Boss Podcast: https://presentationboss.com.au/podcast/ • Kate on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kate-norris/ • Thomas on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-krafft/ • Presentation Boss on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/presentationboss/ • Presentation Boss on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/presentation-boss

Five presentation designers and co-hosts are in your ears for episode sixty-seven of The Presentation Boss Podcast. We've got a collaboration episode today, where Kate and Thomas joined up with the three co-hosts from The Presentation Podcast. Yes, the similarity in names is half coincidence, and half telling that we are all about relatively similar things. We get to know each other a little better during this (slightly over one) hour, have some laughs and geek out over some presentation nitty-gritty too! Troy Chollar, Sandra (Sandy) Johnson and Nolan Haims are each PowerPoint MVP's and each run their own successful presentation design studios. Their podcast (one of Thomas' absolute favourites) is a fortnightly show with discussions revolving around all aspects of presentations, including design, technology and sometimes, guest specials. The five of us decided we could have a lengthy conversation about our journeys through the industry and with our podcasts. The episode will be released on each of our podcasts, so if you're subscribed to us both, that's why you'll hear something similar. If you're not subscribed to both, you ought to be! For regular viewers here, this is a little bit of a different format and we hope you love this massive conversation! About The Presentation Podcast: The Presentation Podcast is a conversation among presentation design studio owners (across the USA) about presentation design, tools, tips, running a design studio and more. New episodes release on the first and third Tuesday of each month. What We Discuss: • The upcoming virtual Presentation Summit • Origin stories of how each group met and why we started our respective podcasts • Specific niches and specialisations of each co-host (and yes, we're each different!) • Why this podcast rotates through the three formats • What benefits we each get out of the podcast experience (and some behind the scenes on individual roles) And we do talk about presentations, specifically: • The software we find is being most used and that we most work with (PowerPoint, Prezi, Keynote, Google Slides or Canva) • Professional and Tech tips from each presenter (all links below) Mentioned in the Show: Episode 107 of The Presentation Podcast Troy Chollar (California): TLC Creative Services The PowerPoint Blog Nolan Haims (New Jersey): Present Your Story Blog Nolan Haims Creative Sandy Johnson (Minnesota): Presentation Wiz The Presentation Guild Pro/Tech Tips: Troy: Synchronise App Sandy: Mmhmm App Thomas: Phil M Jones - Exactly What to Say Kate: Headliner App Nolan: Hanna...

Time to walk and listen to episode sixty-six of The Presentation Boss Podcast. No really, if you're not walking/jogging/running while listening to this episode, I can't guarantee that you won't feel bad by the end. We're doing a speech breakdown where we play a talk from the internet and pause it to make comment about the presentation skills on display. In this weeks episode, we have another suggestion from our friend and previous guest, Tamsen Webster. This talk by Nilofer Merchant is both a classic we had forgotten about, and a brilliant example of sharing a simple idea in just three minutes. We discuss the clever tactics used by the presenter, but also discuss if maybe it should have been longer. Lots to learn and maybe a life and habit-changing idea coming your way in this super short episode! What You'll Learn • Choosing the right statement or fact to open a presentation with impact • The power of comparison between your topic and a known habit • Why data and information might not be important, and how to address that information • How to use pace to add contrast and emphasise pertinent points of the talk • Why you should rehearse a presentation in front of your intended audience or similar • Whether a super-short presentation is adequate to communicate an idea, or if it's more a conversation starter • Making persuasion powerful using elements that are important to your audience • Awareness of shadows that hair, hats etc. can cast on your face, depending on venue lighting. Mentioned In The Show • Nilofer Merchant | "Got a meeting? Take a walk!" Resources and Links • Email us: podcast@presentationboss.com.au • The Presentation Boss Podcast: https://presentationboss.com.au/podcast/ • Kate on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kate-norris/ • Thomas on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-krafft/ • Presentation Boss on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/presentationboss/ • Presentation Boss on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/presentation-boss

Join us for episode sixty-five of The Presentation Boss Podcast! We work a whole lot with tech-based teams. Accounting, IT, engineering, academia, data analysts.. the type of deep thinkers who have a massive amount of knowledge and understanding in their topics. But can struggle to get that important information out of their mind. Especially when they are labelled as boring or involved with dry, boring information. Kate and Thomas don't believe any subject worth talking about is boring, dry or not worthy of communicating. Let us walk you through five of the key aspects and philosophies we use with our clients to ensure they communicate their topic of brilliance (no matter the label) in an engaging and effective way. Mentioned in the show: • Previous episode: "Talk Nerdy to Me" What you'll learn in this episode: • The five key ways to boost your presentation of even the most seemingly boring content • Making sure that your audience does care about what you have to say • Using simple stories to preface hard data and information • Building a solid introduction to generate initial interest • Why you should leverage the Social Curiosity Driver as a presentation skill • Breaking through the stereotypes and fallacies around your topic and industry • Adding personality, humour and entertainment into your next presentation • The value of simplifying your language and discourse • How to create an anchor or metaphor to springboard your audience's understanding • Whether you should get your audience a bit more involved in your presentation as a conversation. Resources and Links • Email us: podcast@presentationboss.com.au • The Presentation Boss Podcast: https://presentationboss.com.au/podcast/ • Kate on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kate-norris/ • Thomas on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-krafft/ • Presentation Boss on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/presentationboss/ • Presentation Boss on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/presentation-boss

Hello there, it's episode sixty-four of The Presentation Boss Podcast. Way back when Thomas started listening to podcasts about presentations, he came across one called 'The Presentation Podcast' (Yes, the similarity of the name is noted). It has since become his most listened to podcast. Nolan Haims is one of the co-hosts of that show and is a master in presentations, data-visualisation and PowerPoint design. More recently, Kate has jumped on board the Nolan Haims fan-train and were both excited to have a conversation with him about this topic. There's a load of valuable conversation about charts and graphs use, where design fits into presentation preparation, and how you can start to move from average data presentation towards something better for communication. About Our Guest With more than 20 years of experience in the field of visual communications, Nolan Haims helps individuals and organisations tell better stories with fewer words. He has created thousands of presentations including keynote addresses for Fortune 500 CEOs, TED Talks and multi-million dollar winning agency pitches. In a past life, Nolan was an award-winning magician and juggler and performed with the Moscow Circus and Vermont's Circus Smirkus before turning to theatre. He directed and wrote professionally, creating stories on stages in New York and around the USA for a decade. As Vice President and Director of Presentation for Edelman, the world's largest PR firm, he founded and ran a department dedicated to raising the agency's bar on visual communication. He runs his own visual communications consultancy in Montclair, New Jersey. Nolan trains organisations to think visually, speaks at national conferences, writes about visual storytelling at PresentYourStory.com, and is a co-host of The Presentation Podcast. As one of only 35 Microsoft PowerPoint MVPs in the world, he regularly advises the PowerPoint development team. What You'll Learn • What the difference is between using different graphing software to present your data • How using PowerPoint is exactly the same as using Prezi, Keynote, Google Slides or Canva • Why you should create graphs with quick comprehension in mind • How you can move your team/organisation from how they currently present data, to an objectively better way • How to build better data presentations • The debate around pie charts vs. bar charts • If you're just getting started, how you can begin to create better designed slides • Loads more - seriously, you have to just listen in! Mentioned In The Show • The podcast that Nolan co-hosts (and Thomas loves): The Presentation Podcast • Nolan Haims' blog: PresentYourStory.com • Nolan Haims' corporate website: NolanHaimsCreative.com • Edward Tufte's books Resources and Links • Email us: podcast@presentationboss.com.au • The Presentation Boss Podcast: https://presentationboss.com.au/podcast/ • Kate on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kate-norris/ • Thomas on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-krafft/ • Presentation Boss on facebook:

Howdy! It's episode sixty-three of The Presentation Boss Podcast. We love hearing constantly how much you guys love our speech breakdowns. Just two weeks ago you heard us talk about the completeness and accessibility of TED Talks with Tamsen Webster. And after our recording, she suggested we take a look at this talk. We love short, concise, thoughtful speeches and this one clocks in at under five minutes! So, a shorter episode this time. However, not only is it a great example of speaking, especially the Plan, Design, Deliver model, but it's also full of suggestions about how to present technical information to non-tech audiences. We're aware how meta this feels. What You'll Learn • Starting a speech with context in storytelling • Being conscious of using positive, non-derogatory words to describe stereotypes • Relating a problem to an entire audience, rather than a select few • How your rate of speech and pause need to match and consider the audience. • Using PowerPoint to be visual and novel in explaining your message • How to use the three-point presentation structure Mentioned In The Show • Melissa Marshall | "Talk Nerdy to Me" Resources and Links • Email us: podcast@presentationboss.com.au • The Presentation Boss Podcast: https://presentationboss.com.au/podcast/ • Kate on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kate-norris/ • Thomas on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-krafft/ • Presentation Boss on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/presentationboss/ • Presentation Boss on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/presentation-boss

We're tackling the big issues in episode sixty-two of The Presentation Boss Podcast! Confidence in presentations and feeling authentic! You know what confidence feels like. The idea that you can do a task and do it well. And speaking in any capacity is the skill more than any other that people have no confidence in doing themselves. So we talk about exactly what confidence means when presenting, as well as exactly how to go about building that true, internal confidence for yourself. Then, authenticity. It's the second-most desirable trait of ourselves when we speak (right behind confidence). The idea that we are giving an accurate, true and non-artificial representation of ourselves. Kate and Thomas talk about what authenticity means (and more importantly, what it doesn't mean), how it affects speaking and of course, the best way for you to be an authentic speaker. Strap in, while we discuss these two powerful words. We share with you the same thoughts we share with our clients when they ask us to help them be more confident and more authentic. What you'll learn in this episode: • What leads to confidence and its two key components • How and why confidence is different to self-esteem • The dilemma of starting a new skill and being seen to be starting • Exactly how to get started building your confidence as a speaker • What authenticity means for you as a speaker • The excuses and mis-interpretations of authenticity • How authenticity gives a reflection of who you are, rather than your most transparent emotions • Exactly what you can do to ensure you present authentically Resources and Links • Email us: podcast@presentationboss.com.au • The Presentation Boss Podcast: https://presentationboss.com.au/podcast/ • Kate on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kate-norris/ • Thomas on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-krafft/ • Presentation Boss on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/presentationboss/ • Presentation Boss on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/presentation-boss

Get in, it's episode sixty-one of The Presentation Boss Podcast. We're joined today by another speaking genius from our big wish-list of experts we're excited to have on the show. Today it's Tamsen Webster of TEDx and The Red Thread fame. Kate has been following her work for years, and Thomas almost as long (you'll have to listen to the episode to hear the story). In this conversation, she talks deeply about refining your message, what goes into making a great talk (TED or otherwise) and the power of introverts when giving presentations. We even have a great discussion about why 5-minute talks are often better than far longer. Tamsen's comments are well articulated, succinct and packed with value. This is a big 49 minutes! About Our Guest As a professional 'Idea Whisperer', Tamsen helps people find, build, and tell the stories of their ideas. She combined 20 years in brand and message strategy with four years as a TEDx Executive Producer to create The Red Thread®, a simple way to change how people see.. and what they do as a result. (Though as she'll tell you, everything she knows about people, speaking, and change, she learned at Weight Watchers.) Today, Tamsen is a globe-hopping keynote speaker who consults with enterprise companies like Verizon, Johnson & Johnson, and State Street Bank on how to get their big ideas to have the impact they deserve. What You'll Learn • How you can think of the difference between a big idea and a key message in a presentation • The three connections that are the secret to successful presentation messaging • What makes the difference between an average talk and a great talk • The two levels a presentation must succeed on in order to drive change • Some of the lessons we can learn from the shortest TED Talks • How introversion positively affects presentations skills as a speaker Mentioned In The Show • Everything Tamsen is on her website: TamsenWebster.com • Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman Resources and Links • Email us: podcast@presentationboss.com.au • The Presentation Boss Podcast: https://presentationboss.com.au/podcast/ • Kate on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kate-norris/ • Thomas on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-krafft/ • Presentation Boss on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/presentationboss/ • Presentation Boss on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/presentation-boss Quotes from the Show • "You already have the resources you need to be successful; some folks just have to figure out what those are" • "So much of what people are looking for in delivery can be solved with content"