Cam is a speaker, speaking coach and speechwriter. His background as a radio executive helped him understand how to get inside the mind of an audience and trigger message recall. He developed the Vivid Method for Public Speaking as a response to the mechanical acting skills being taught for business presentations and media settings. The More…
10 Reasons You’ll Improve Your Next Presentation By Using The ‘B’ Key
Business Insider interviewed me last week on the best way to avoid ‘death by PowerPoint’ and improve public speaking and presentation skills. I talked about the simplest and most powerful technique – the ‘B’ key. Otherwise known as blanking the screen during a slide show. They published the piece on Friday as ’10 Reasons You’ll More…
Prezi versus PowerPoint for presentation visuals
Have you heard of Prezi? Sometimes called the ‘zooming’ presentation software, Prezi is an online program you can use to create presentations that are considered more dynamic than PowerPoint because of its Zooming User Interface. What does that mean? The presentation or story is laid out on a virtual canvas and the scale of the viewed area More…
Public Speaking Anxiety: Choose fear or fun
Public speaking anxiety can be dissolved. You can CHOOSE the way adrenaline affects you when public speaking. Could public speaking anxiety be fun? Psychologist Stanley Schacter has conducted experiments on the way people label the physical symptoms of anxiety. Using many inputs, including a drug similar to adrenaline, he set up two different scenarios. More…