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Why use props? A professional speaker shares why pros use props to help their message stick!

17/07/2017

Professional Motivational speaker Lee Jackson shares his down to earth tips on why props could make your talk better! Use props well and the audience will remember your talk – simple! Lee speaks to tough audiences and he’s learnt the hard way how a good talk is prepared and delivered. Learn presentation skills from a […]

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How to write/prepare a good speech, talk or presentation from scratch

17/07/2017

Experienced Professional speaker and presentation coach Lee Jackson helps you plan a talk from scratch. Great advice for business people, the best man, teachers and communicators. DON’T TOUCH POWERPOINT UNTIL YOUVE SEEN THIS FIRST! Learn how to be more creative when speaking by preparing well for your speech.

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How to and why to use props when doing a speech or presentation

17/07/2017

Pro Motivational speaker and Presentation Coach Lee Jackson shares here why using props can really help your message stick and engage an audience. Asked by the Professional Speaking Association (PSA) to do a quick video on his day off (!), Lee shares here a quick tip that could really help your talk stand out from […]

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What leaders can learn from Victoria Wood Lee, some BIG news + fun stuff from Lee Jackson…

04/05/2016

Here’s my latest newsletter, enjoy and share…    Good stuff from Lee Jackson the Speaker + Presentation Coach View this email in your browser Hi, It seems like it’s been a busy few weeks since my last newsletter – celebrities popping off, Leicester City winning the Premier League at odds of 5000-1, a spring that can’t seem to spring and if you live in Yorkshire we even had our […]

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Why “ Follow your dreams ” might just be the worst advice ever!

12/01/2016

Why “ follow your dreams ” might just be the worst advice ever!  Why “ follow your dreams ” might just be the worst advice ever!  I play quite a bit of basketball, about three times a week is pretty normal during the season. But the reality is that when I play I’m often the […]

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Lookout for culture creep!

15/09/2015

It’s been an eventful few weeks for the Jackson’s, we kept our house in an endlessly minimalist / tidy state (with cupboards bursting full of stuff) as we tried to sell our house, and at the same time we are preparing to move house. Obviously these two things have to happen at the same time, […]

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How to handle feedback and use it to your advantage!

18/06/2015

How to handle feedback and use it to your advantage – my feedback on feedback! Feedback is a funny thing! How do you process it? How does it make you feel? As a speaker I get feedback all the time, both written and verbal. I once met a fellow speaker at his office and he had big piles of […]

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Using stock photos on your slides that don’t suck!

09/04/2015

Stock photos are a tricky one. They can be great, they can be woeful… I talk about them alot in my PowerPoint Surgery Q&A’s. Here’s a nice article I found on Medium to help us all find some that don’t suck… The list includes my current favourite Death to the Stock Photo See below for a […]

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PowerPoint Surgery – Tips to create presentation slides that make your message stick, not suck!

11/03/2015

PowerPoint Surgery – Tips to create presentation slides that make your message stick, not suck! Lee Jackson “If your words or images are not on point, making them dance in colour won’t make them relevant…Power corrupts, PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.” Edward Tufte, Yale Emeritus professor There are three very big things that we are expected to do, […]

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What’s really important? My neighbour found out the hard way…

22/04/2014

A couple of weeks ago, I was in the bedroom doing some weekend tidying up after a busy week speaking away from home. In a daze with the radio on, I was in a world of my own as I unpacked. In my relaxed state I heard my daughter running upstairs shouting “Dad, Dad, you’ve […]

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