The poetry of presentations
Struggling to keep your audience attentive and understanding your meaning in your presentations? Here's a poetic solution, courtesy of public speaking coach Simon Hall...
The rewards of a rapid rapport
Simon Hall reveals how to quickly establish a rapport with someone you've just met, whether in person or online, and the rewards it can bring...
Performance drinks for presentations
What's the best drink to help you when you're giving a talk, or presenting? The answer may come as a surprise, writes Simon Hall...
Selling yourself
There's a critical, but too often overlooked part of getting what you want in business and life... and it involves selling yourself, writes Simon Hall.
Breaking down the barriers
Your presentations and public speaking can be greatly enhanced by one simple trick... the art of knowing where to stand on the stage, writes Simon Hall.
The golden secret of success
Simon Hall offers a presentations and public speaking tip which, he says, also embodies the golden secret of success for just about anything in life.
Polishing your productivity
Do you want to improve your productivity? There's an easy trick to help, and it's all about variety, writes Simon Hall...
Take Note
For those going to a talk, or on a course, what's the ideal amount of notes to take? Here's a thought about the answer, writes Simon Hall.
Creative space
If you've got a problem to solve, need to be creative or find inspiration, this is the magic ingredient which we so often overlook, writes Simon Hall.
Public speaking and presentations with a smile
There's a simple, almost no effort, yet highly effective trick you can use to impress with your public speaking and presentations and this is it, writes Simon Hall...
Partnerships and principles
Simon Hall explores and celebrates an essential element of a successful business partnership which all too often gets overlooked...
Storytelling in pictures
If you're telling a story, don't forget the power of pictures and how much they can enhance it, writes Simon Hall.
How storytelling works
The art of storytelling explained... in one formative love story with a twist, writes Simon Hall.
Mixed messages
Simon Hall explores the danger of mixed messages in reports, presentations, talks, business, plans, storytelling, and all forms of communication, and how to avoid the problem.
The greatest gifts?
Want to energise, enthuse and empower the people you work with, or even your family and friends? Then these are the greatest gifts you can give them, writes Simon Hall...
Strategic communications
The how, what and why of using strategic communication to achieve your aims from Simon Hall, whether you're raising money, selling services, or even investigating murder...
Seizing the moment
If you don't seize your moment in life, the chance may not come again... as Simon Hall happily and tastily demonstrated in an eating ambush, and now explains...
Online or in person get togethers - what's best?
When should you get together online, and when in person? Some thoughts for best results, including a helpful magic formula, from Simon Hall...
Signposting In public speaking and writing
Signposting is a subtle but important trick in helping your presentations, reports and writing make a powerful impression, writes Simon Hall...
Achieve more by doing less
It sounds too good to be true, but it isn't. In the world of communications, you can achieve more by doing less. And here's how, writes Simon Hall...
How to write a book
If you've ever wanted to write a book, this is how to motivate yourself to do it, writes Simon Hall - who is very proud to have just seen his latest work published!
The easy way to effective and accessible writing
If you want to write crisply and clearly, effectively and elegantly, not to mention accessibly and impressively, this simple tip will help you with how, says Simon Hall.
How to keep your cool
The ability to keep your cool is a critical quality in life, and here are five thoughts about how to do it, whatever the provocation, writes Simon Hall.
Eliminating email
For positive and effective communication, this is when, and when NOT to send an email, writes Simon Hall.
How to make a good impression
First impressions are important, and here's how to make a good one... including some thoughts you may not have expected, writes Simon Hall.