“When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute.” Simon Sinek

Presentations play a crucial role in conveying ideas, engaging audiences, and leaving a lasting impact. But creating a captivating and organised presentation can be challenging. Fear not! Here are three easy and effective presentation structures that will help you deliver a memorable and compelling presentation.

Do you wish you were more confident? You can be – it simply takes awareness and practice. So how about you pick which *kind* of confident you plan to be?

So I’m asking myself, what’s brought about this change? And as I got into it, I realised that I wanted to formulate a path towards confidence for you, too, and make a list of tips and hints. Cue an appropriate challenge: to post a Confidence Trick per day on LinkedIn (Follow at www.linkedin.com/company/the-offer-bank/ . Search #TheOfferBankConfidenceTricks for all 30 posts.

When I'm coaching people to greater confidence when speaking in public or in groups, they always ask me how they can be 'fast-tracked'. "What's the secret?" they say. What they really mean is: "How do I get to achieve this immediately without any feeling of discomfort?" This scary, brain-frying headspace – known in psychological terms as 'conscious incompetence' – is there for a reason: so that you can be creative, learn your craft, practice a heap of strategies... and become satisfyingly resilient along the way.

Dancing and singing and group fun reduce stress hormone cortisol and release happy hormones: endorphins (painkiller) and dopamine (mood-booster) and oxytocin (‘love drug’). The more we create positive, habitual pathways and imprint a route to joy, the easier good habits become.

Today, please, put yourself first. Take up space. Be difficult. Be loud. No-one’s going to do it for you. Stop trying to make everything work for everyone around you and just please yourself!

Four simple tips to get you out of your head and back in your body before you give any presentation.