The Jim Harvey Pitch Podcast

In this podcast Jim asks why so many presentations that we see in the business world are so bad, and what can be done about it?  He looks at a recent survey that asked senior managers in the UK’s most successful businesses for their views on presentations and analyses why they might be so negative about the talks they see. Then he goes on to suggest simple ways that we can all take some responsibility to help improve presentations that we attend, commission, or create. Because if no-one, and that includes the most important board-level whingers at the world’s biggest businesses, takes responsibility for anything, all will remain the same, and the ‘strategy briefing’, ’employee update’, or ‘town hall’ will remain as popular as a trip to the dentist. Jim is the Managing Director of ‘The Message Business’, a UK based marketing, training and creative business. Over the last 25 years, we’ve helped the likes of Ford, Porsche, JP Morgan, State Street, JC Decaux, Mercer, Mitsubishi and many other brilliant businesses sell their ideas, their products and their services all over the world.  Learn our simple approach to pitching, storytelling and public speaking, and see how much of our thinking has been adopted and used by the very best speakers, whenever they want to change the world. See here for an insight into our thinking, and to subscribe to our regular blogposts.  For hundreds of hints and tips about writing, rehearsing and delivering the very best speeches, see here.

We’ve helped the likes of Ford, Porsche, JP Morgan, State Street, JC Decaux, Mercer, Mitsubishi and many other brilliant businesses sell their ideas, their products and their services effectively over 25 years, all over the world.  Learn our simple approach to storytelling and speaking to maximum effect, and see how much of our thinking has been adopted and used by the very best speakers, whenever they want to change the world. See here for an insight into our thinking, and to subscribe to our regular blogposts.  For hundreds of hints and tips about writing, rehearsing and delivering the very best speeches, see here.

I made a speech a few weeks ago to a business group in Cambridge, UK. I had a great time and met some really interesting people, as usual. One of the people I met was a guy called David Smallman, a business consultant, entrepreneur and radio host of some renown. We chatted for a few minutes and then, rather charmingly, he asked if I’d like to appear as a guest on his ‘Smallman on Business’ show, a staple of STAR Radio in Cambridge. I was delighted to accept and here’s the result. It’s a short chat about my career highs and lows to date, and though it felt weird talking about me for so long, as I try to avoid it when I’m speaking to audiences, the result was an interview that does show an insight into me, my style and why I do what I do. I hope you enjoy it, and it has prompted me to start doing podcasts as a part of my offering on here. More soon.