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De brief van VOKA: zeer goed, maar kan het beter?
VOKA boodschap voor 11 juli: Het kan beterWe analyseerden en verbeterden de brief van VOKA met de TLSM methodologie. Paul Kumpen, voorzitter van VOKA, publiceert vandaag een een opiniestuk ter gelegenheid van 11 juli: “De 21ste eeuw moet nu beginnen”. Hij toont waar...
How to prepare an impactful business presentation?
This article describes the TLSM framework for a concise and impactful business presentation. Starting in PowerPoint is the worst you can do. How do we all prepare a business presentation? We look for slides we already have, then start adding slides, reshuffling and...
Visualizing success
Visualizing success to be more successful. Does it work? According to many authors, visualizing your future success will make you more successful. Close your eyes and imagine how it will be if your presentation is really successful. See where you will stand, what your...
Managers can learn from the Harry-Potter-Girl
Lessons from Emma Watson’s he-for-she speech at the UN. What a memorable speech! Emma Watson was clearly nervous, fragile, slightly scared even. The acclaimed 'Harry-Potter-Girl', as she calls herself, isn't free from stage fright. So why should you be? But what a...
Presentations impact the bottom line – Survey results
According to a survey conducted with 273 people working in large organisations, presentations directly cause a waste of 8 to 17% of their time: On average, employees spend more than 9 hours a week delivering, attending or preparing presentations. 45% of all...
Lack of Research
There are a lot of books on presentation skills and a multitude on communication in business environment. However there is strikingly little scientific research done in the field of presentations in a business environment. Cognitive psychology : There is a lot...