We often get asked to make sets of handouts for our clients so they can be distributed before they present. When asked ‘why?’, the answer is nearly always ‘so the audience can make notes and refer back to specific slides for the Q&A.’ Does handing out your presentation in this manner help or hinder you… Read more »
If you love someone, should you try to change them? That’s the big question addressed in style by Paul Corrigan on his Health Matters blog. It was sparked by the UK Government’s pamphlet Working Together For A Stronger National Health Service, which begins: “We love the NHS. The NHS is our most precious national asset…. Read more »
“Emotion doesn’t affect my decision-making” I hear, delivered with a steely stare. It’s a tough objection to address. Some people are proud to think of themselves as rational calculating machines, driven by numbers, coolly weighing evidence. Suggesting otherwise can be taken as an insult. Israeli judges have come to my aid this week. A study… Read more »
I have written before about giving numbers bite, getting big figures across without producing glazed expressions. The FT had two brilliant examples yesterday on the ‘shutdown’ of the US federal government. $7 billion, the amount in dispute, was alternatively: 1) dollar bills laid out, stretching as far as the moon, three times over. 2) the… Read more »