Ideas on Stage Podcast

Dr. Jonathan Downie is a consultant conference interpreter, working between French and English, as well as an author and interpreting researcher.  This interview is relevant both to international speakers and to international conference organisers. 

Here's what we talked about:   

For speakers:  

- The role of a consultant interpreter  

- Why interpreting matters  

- Why your audience need to hear you in their language   

- How speakers can increase their impact by working together with an interpreter 

- How NOT to deliver a talk 

- Why public speaking is about making memories, not transferring information  

For conference organisers:   

- Top reasons to stop running English-only international events   

- Why interpreters should be treated as speakers 

- How many interpreters you need for your conference  

- Technical equipment  

- ...and more   

We hope you enjoy it!   

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Matt Essam is a business coach who helps creative freelancers grow their business by finding work that is both creatively fulfilling and financially rewarding. Matt has a lot of experience with presentations. He run 60 workshops in the last two years and also spoke at conferences and venues such as the Google Campus, General Assembly, Glug, Hey! and Mainframe Derby.

Here's what we talked about:  

- Effective sales presentations  

- The importance of the Why 

- Framing ‘the next step’  

- Addressing objections   

- The close  

- Creating a sense of urgency and scarcity  

- How to be authentic 

- Understanding and listening to your audience   

- How to control nerves and be more comfortable  

- Dealing with the negative people in the room   

- Rehearsing  

- And much more   

We hope you enjoy it!   

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In this edition of the Ideas on Stage Podcast, Phil Waknell welcomes Peter Ivanov, bestselling author of Virtual Power Teams, and discusses remote working, how to lead and motivate teams across borders, and how to be productive when working from home.  

You can learn more about Virtual Power Teams and Peter's upcoming book Power Teams Across Borders on his website, https://www.peter-ivanov.com.  And you can also find details of our own online courses on the Virtual Meeting Revolution at https://www.ideasonstage.com.

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Jeremy Nicholas is an award-winning TV and radio broadcaster, well known for his news and sports reports for BBC TV and radio. He is an accomplished speaker who is brilliant at adding humour to presentations. In October 2015 he was awarded the highest award in UK speaking, the PSAE - Professional Speaking Award of Excellence, only the fifteenth person in history to receive it. He’s a past president of the Professional Speaking Association, London. Kids of all ages are more impressed that he’s the voice of the announcer on 11 global best-selling football video games FIFA 06 to FIFA 16. If your children have this game, you will know this man’s voice, perhaps a little too well. He’s a published author and his third book ‘A Million Tips on Public Speaking - Volume One’ is available as a free download on his website www.JeremyNicholas.co.uk. 

Andrea spoke to Jeremy to learn more about how to add humour to business presentations. We hope you enjoy it!   

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In this episode we spoke with Mark Leruste, Founder and Chief Purpose Officer of the Ministry of Purpose and Host of The Unconventionalists podcast.  

Mark has worked with pioneering organisations, forward thinking leaders and disruptive conferences including Google, TEDx, Intuit, INSEAD, Method & Ecover, L’Oreal, StateStreet, The Guardian, Samsung, General Assembly and VirginStartup.   

His weekly podcast The Unconventionalists has reached 135,000+ downloads on iTunes across 100 countries and his inspiring videos have been viewed over 1.5 million times on social media.  

His TEDx talk "What they don't tell you about entrepreneurship" is the most watched TEDxCardiff talk to date.  

In this episode we talked about the secrets behind his successful TEDx talk. It's packed full of great tips and insights on all things public speaking.  

Books recommended by Mark:  

- The Breakthrough Speaker, by Adam Smiley Poswolsky   

- The Storyteller's Secret, by Carmine Gallo   

We hope you enjoy it! 

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Maria Franzoni is the Director of the Speaker Bureau Maria Franzoni Ltd.  

Maria has held senior positions with 2 leading bureaus: CSA Celebrity Speakers and London Speaker Bureau – named by the New York Times as “the only international speaker bureau”. In 2007 she founded her own boutique bureau. She has worked with the “who’s who and the who’s that?” of the speaking world, including first man on the moon Neil Armstrong; business magnate Richard Branson and racing champion Jacques Villeneuve …. To name a few. Maria is former co-chair of the European Association of Speaker Bureaus. Director of We Do Things Differently cultural change consultancy and founder of Speaking Business Academy and host of  Speaking Business podcast.    

Here's what we talked about:  

- Understanding the audience  

- What does she look for when choosing a speaker?  

- What does her top clients are looking for in a speaker? 

- The best question you can ask your client when they booked you to speak at their event  

- If you want to get more paid speaking gigs, you need to do what Beyonce does  

- What qualifies you to be an expert in your subject?  

- Bigger stages: why size doesn't matter 

- Creating a great outro  

- On "sharing the stage” 

- How to enter into new markets  

- Top trending topics for 2020  

- The key components of a good bio 

- And much more   

A book recommended by Maria:  

- Profit First by Mike Michalowicz   

We hope you enjoy it!   

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Andy Lopata speaks globally and has been quoted extensively in the international press. He is a Fellow and Director of the Fellows Community of the Professional Speaking Association (PSA), a Fellow of the Learning and Performance Institute and a Master of the Institute for Sales Management. He was awarded the PSA Award of Excellence in 2017.    

Here's what you we talked about:

- Storytelling

- The role of emotional stories 

- The rule of three

- Audience engagement

- Removing barriers

- Effective presentation design 

- Rehearsing  

- Adding humour  

- Making it relevant to the audience  

- Tips for good eye contact 

- Dealing with nerves 

- And much more   

Books recommended by Andy:  

- . . . and Death Came Third!: The Definitive Guide to Networking and Speaking in Public, by Andy Lopata and Peter Roper 

- The Presentation Coach - Bare Knuckle Brilliance For Every Presenter, by Graham Davies   

- The Exceptional Speaker, by Alan Stevens and Paul du Toit  

- Never Be Boring Again: Make Your Business Presentations Capture Attention, Inspire Action and Produce Results, by Doug Stevenson   

We hope you enjoy it!  

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Want to use presentations to grow your business and increase your influence but not sure where to start?

Take the Impactful Presenter Scorecard to assess your presentation skills in less than 5 minutes: https://ideasonstage.com/score

Attend our free, live masterclass on all things presentation skills: http://ideasonstageuk.eventbrite.com

Isaac Getz is a Professor, speaker, researcher and co-author of award-winning business books like Freedom, Inc. and Leadership Without Ego. He recently released in France a landmark new work called L'Entreprise Altruiste (co-written with Laurent Marbacher; English edition forthcoming). Joe Ross from Ideas on Stage sat down with this world-renowned leadership specialist to learn more about this intriguing “altruistic corporation” business philosophy and how he sees the future of business and capitalism in general.  

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Garr Reynolds kick-started the presentation revolution in 2005 with his popular ground-breaking blog at https://www.presentationzen.com, which led him to publish Presentation Zen in 2007. The most popular presentation book of all time is now in its 3rd edition, with many updates, so Rose Bloomfield caught up with Garr to find out what's new, and why you need a copy of this new version. With special guest appearances from Queen, Steve Jobs and Yoda - and Garr's cat! 

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