Beyond The Spotlight
Welcome to the latest blog post in the Beyond The Spotlight series. In each post, I interview conference speakers about their talk process, preparation and delivery, showing what happens behind the scenes of great conference talks. In today’s Beyond The Spotlight, I’m chatting to Nickolas Means. You may
Talk Ideas
Right, you've sat down to come up with a new talk idea, you're looking at your screen/paper and... your mind is blank. Coming up with talk ideas is hard! We often don't realise what things we could be talking about or how to
Happy New Year! It's the first week of January, and for many folks, it's a time to reflect on what they've done and what they want to do next. What are your traditions for the new year? Do you set New Year's
The Art of Slide Design
This post is part of The Art of Slide Design series. In each post, we look at a design principle to understand how to create more compelling slides. This week we'll look at the signal-to-noise ratio. Follow along and subscribe to my newsletter to get regular tips to
Beyond The Spotlight
Welcome everyone to this new recurring blog post series: Beyond The Spotlight. In it, I’ll be interviewing conference speakers about their talk process, preparation and delivery, showing what happens behind the scenes of great conference talks. In today’s first Beyond The Spotlight, I’m chatting to Michelle Barker.
Where do you see yourself in 5 years time? I used to dread this question. It always made me feel as if I should know the answer to this – rather than just making it up as I go along as I normally do. And I felt bad that this wasn’
Talk Ideas
So you've decided you want to give a talk. You've made that step to change your mindset: You have something worth talking about. You just don't know what to talk about yet. How do you discover what you should be talking about? Over the
The Art of Slide Design
Back in 2017, I created my first meta talk about getting better at talks: The Art of Slide Design. It was all about how to apply a couple of design principles to understand how to create more compelling slides. When I started this new blog, I realised that not only
Talk Ideas
I realised recently that I’ve been a conference speaker for almost 10 years. Now if you told me years ago that I would be doing this regularly and enjoy it, I would never have believed you: I used to be terrified of public speaking. There were all sorts of
Employee Evangelism
In this post, we look at the different benefits of encouraging employee evangelism across your team and company. There’s no denying that the current climate within the tech industry is in flux. We’ve all seen the rise in redundancies, with companies tightening their budgets, down-sizing their teams and
Communication
In this 5th & final post of the Art of Communication Design series, we look at how to design each individual message in your comms plan. We'll look at the target audience, channel and goals of your message, and examine ways to reduce the cognitive load (maximise signal, minimise noise).
Communication
In this 4th post of the Art of Communication Design series, we'll be examining how to design your comms plan and framework. Check out the entire series: * Part 1: Intro * Part 2: Define Your Goals * Part 3: Identify Your Audience * Part 4: Design Your Comms Plan * Part 5: