Why use online training?

If you are an HR manager putting together a training strategy, can you afford to rule out online tuition.

Skillpresentations and Edinburgh-ESL we offer our services online and believe that there are real advantages in using video conferencing as a means of delivering training.

Using easily available Internet conference technology (skype) we are able to conduct tutorials face-to-face in real time. Effectively we are in the same room, materials and exercises are shared using screen share and file share.

Online lessons are private lessons, so correction and direction can be offered confidentially.

By using the virtual class room huge savings in travel and accommodation costs are achieved along with clear environmental benefits. If you are developing a training strategy for your business, online tutorials offer clear advantages.

To find out more or to see how it works contact us at michael@edinburgh-esl.co.uk or via skype: michael.edinburgh-esl

MG

Edinburgh ESL

Giving a presentation can be a daunting task in one's own language, I am therefore especially impressed when I hear someone doing it in a second language.

Special challenges come into play, not least the matter of idiom. Business speak can sound daft enough but misplaced blue sky thinking and envelopes being pushed into the wrong part of a sentence can test us all.

Of course clarity of speech is appreciated whatever the language. Edinburgh ESL is a new business designed to help busy people develop their English skills where English is a second language. Courses are offered online via video conferencing for busy executives.

By working online we remove flight uncertainties and environmental impacts and we create workable one-to-one teaching relationships.

http://www.edinburgh-esl.co.uk/

Interruption to service

Due to changes in our hosting account there will be a brief interruption to our our service on skillpresentations.com, keep watching and we'll be back soon.

MG

Guided discovery

Watch these pages for some new services coming to a skype headset near you!

The current set up of skype is tremendous with real potential for tutoring and teaching. Real time assistance developing presentation content and those all important public speaking skills is readily available using the video technology that is available to anyone with a computer and Internet connection.

Drop us a line via skillpresentations.com and book some time now.

MG

Dont forget to press 'B'

It is a wee while since we have spoken about the 'b' word in Powerpoint presentations. D you know what happens when you dare to press 'b'?

B for boring, or perhaps less boring than if you hadn't pressed 'b'.

B for brilliant, definitely if you have the skills to step away from the Powerpoint.

B for bold, go on you know you know you want to.

Stop hiding behind slide after slide, learn how to get your message across with powerful speaking skills.

If you still don't know what happens when you press 'b' check out http://skillpesentations.com and be ready for the focus to switch to you when the screen goes blank ('b' is for blank).

MG

Apologies for absence

Please accept my apologies for my absence from these pages for some time, I'll not bore you with the details and I'll try not to bore you with anything else.

At the heart of every successful presentation we should hope to find that simple aim; interesting, not boring. The truth of course can be somewhat far removed as we sit through PowerPoint presentations that do little more than demonstrate that the presenter owns a computer and is not afraid to use it.

Of course interesting can go the other way, not everyone is as funny as they think they are and most 'icebreakers' tend more to embarrassment than communication.

Interesting is not the same as entertaining, it is linked to informing an audience and it certainly helps to inspire an audience. At the core an interesting presentation is a presentation that provides something the audience needs and that the audience can perceive as useful.

An interesting presentation is well on the way top being a successful one.

Visit http://skillpresentations.com/

Jenson Button

Congratulations to Jenson Button on winning the world championship.


I'm fascinated by the reaction to his off key rendering of 'we are the champions' over his team radio. Not the finest piece of oratory ever but effective!

Congratulations to Reubens too for a sporting response to his own disappointment, again there are lessons for the presenter here giving credit where it is due and maintaining a positive public persona, even in defeat.