Freedom Business Communication Skills

You could hear the jaws drop — The fortune lost due to this one mistake in your presentations Everyone’s jaw dropped. The room became completely silent.

When to use animations and transitions sparingly and when to go full throttle?
Read http://bit.ly/Animations-Transitions1
Brain-Friendly Slides workshop at the 2019 Munich Creative Business Week (link in the bio).

How much is 1 + 1 in a presentation?

1 + 1 = 0. Yes, zero.

And that is roughly how much your audience will remember from your presentation if you don’t understand how Presentation Mathematics works.

Avoid the biggest mistake in delivering slide presentations — understand Presentation Mathematics: http://bit.ly/PresentationMathematics1

Brain-Friendly Slides workshop at the 2019 Munich Creative Business Week: http://bit.ly/BFS2019MCBW

What drives decisions in your favour? A lot more than what you say. What is your strategy for trying to drive decisions in your favour? I sure hope it's more than just attempting to do your best or trying to be persuasive when speaking to others. Because there are specific strategies you can consciously adopt to sway people's opinions towards yourself.

To use animations and transitions in presentations cleverly, treat them as if they were an expensive commodity Definitions: An animation in presentation slides is the movement of an object, such as a text box or a picture, within a slide, while a transition is the movement from one slide to the next. Over ten years ago, I attended the Master’s thesis defence of a then colleague of mine.

Grab the audience’s attention at the beginning of a presentation — Start differently “Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Ákos Gerold and I am a….

Do you want to land your message powerfully? Use the right perspective. You used storytelling in a presentation but have the feeling the audience did not connect well with your message? One of the reasons could be that you did not tell the story from the right perspective. And the right perspective is the one with which the audience identifies the most easily.

Are cool animations in slides helping or hurting you? “I would also like to have such GIFs in my slides. I've seen them in other presentations too and they are so cool!” a client told me when I showed her the below video and similar ones.