Intelligence East Midlands held a full-day training session on presentation & communications skills in December 2009, facilitated by Warren Pearce (IEM) and Nicola Underdown (ARO).

This page contains the key resources from the day. There is also an external site containing loads of extra resources we didn't have time to include on the day, including videos of some great presentations.

Power & Point: presentation cribsheet - Warren's 10 tips to remember when planning presentations with some handy resources.

The EffComm Resource Base/(external website) ...if you want to find out more about communicating effectively, got to our resource base to check out lots more great presentations, tips and examples of best practice.We particularly recommend the Ken Robinson talk, possibly the greatest presentation we've ever seen...

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Seth Godin: the tribes we lead Video showed during the course to illustrate presentation techniques.

Hans Rosling: India & China The inimitable Rosling brings some dry GDP figures to life. This was the "homework video"!

Bill Gates presenting Windows Live We showed a short section of this to show the problem of cognitive load when using Powerpoint.

Malcolm Gladwell: spaghetti sauce Great example of using story, an abstract presentation about 'variability' would not have been so memorable. The story is so good that Gladwell doesn't need slides at all.