Storytelling is everywhere. Whether you’re pitching an idea, explaining a project, or just making small talk over coffee, you’re telling a story. And if you’ve ever struggled to make your point stick—or felt like your story fizzled out before it landed—there’s a good chance your structure needs tweaking. You might’ve heard of STAR (Situation, Task, …
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More like a note to self than a real Keynote protip, because for some reason I never seem to remember this little trick when I need it. If you need to resize multiple objects in keynote, select them, then Arrange → Group. Once they’ve been grouped, you’ll be able to resize them with your mouse. …
The other day I was asked to write about how I approach public speaking from an organisational point of view. Things like “do you have a general roadmap”, “how do you start creating your slides” or “do you use spreadsheets“ and so on. I thought this was really interesting, so here we are, without further …
Let’s face it: we’ve all seen slides that suck. Business meetings, sales pitches, conferences, you name it, someone brought a terrible deck with poor colour contrast and tons of text, maybe written in Papyrus or C**** S***. Luckily those days seem to be over, or at least close to their end. At the last conferences I’ve …
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So you want to get started with public speaking, huh? One year ago I was at the same point. Did I have something to share? Yes. Did I have an audience? Maybe, big cities have enough meetups. Was public speaking really that scary? More than death. During 2015 (and my entire life) I’ve given nine talks. …
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Do you know when you take a look back at the resolutions you’ve made before the year kicked off and then realise you’ve failed them all? I’ve lost the count of how many times it happened to me. I think we’re pretty close to 30. Anyway, this year I’ve decided to do things seriously. Instead of making a silly list with …
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