Boris Hristov

Founder of 356labs

Founder of 356labs
and PowerPoint MVP.
Speaker, Trainer & Author.
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Next Level Trainings With 356labs

July 14, 2016 By Boris Hristov Leave a Comment

When I started the journey of creating the presentation design and training agency 356labs, I knew one thing clearly – 356labs would stand for premium quality in all presentation services it provides.

I cannot be more delighted to share that we came to an agreement with Innovation Starter – a company here in Bulgaria that helps other companies and organizations innovate – to hire and use their newly created room – d.house co-inventive incubator for all 356labs’s trainings and coaching services.

What this means is that all of our public seminars, one and two-day workshops, together with all company trainings and 1:1 mentoring sessions will be held there. This is exactly what I envisioned! I believe this room will help us achieve and bring a next level experience to everyone who is part of any of our events and I can assure you that this is indeed just the beginning…

So, do you like the new “training and mentoring home” of 356labs? Let me know in the comments! 🙂

P.S. If you are in Sofia on 26th of July, please join me for the first public seminar that we are going to hold in our new home – Mobile is here! Are you presentations ready for it? 

Filed Under: Business, Perosnal, Presentation Skills & Presentation Design, Public Speaking Tagged With: 356labs, Coaching, Innovation Starter, Mentoring, Partnership, Presentation Training, Room, Training, Venue, Workshops

Train the Trainer!
A Collection of 50 Posts For You!

April 26, 2016 By Boris Hristov Leave a Comment

A few months ago I got a chance to train and mentor a group of 20+ future IT trainers as part of a Train the Trainer course at the Software University in Bulgaria. Back then I decided I will take notes of the mistakes I see and then blog about them thus creating a small library of useful knowledge that can help everyone who is or wants to be a trainer at some point in his career.

Below are the 50 blog posts that I wrote on my company’s site that I am sure will make you both better trainer and speaker in general!

Enjoy reading and in case you want me to come and train you and your team, you obviously know how to reach me now!  😉

Mistake 1: Phones Ringing
Mistake 2: The Dying Battery
Mistake 3: Not Using Your Own Machine
Mistake 4: Not Using a Presenter(Pointer)
Mistake 5: The Screensaver
Mistake 6: The Notifications
Mistake 7: Busy Demos
Mistake 8: Equipment Problems
Mistake 9: Projector Problems
Mistake 10: IDEs Not Demo Ready
Mistake 11: Your Name, Please
Mistake 12: EXCUSES
Mistake 13: Weak Start
Mistake 14: 0 Experience!?
Mistake 15: Reading From Your Slides
Mistake 16: The Watch
Mistake 17: Notes In Your Hand!?
Mistake 18: Timing Issues
Mistake 19: Skipping Slides
Mistake 20: Too Much Stuff
Mistake 21: Acronyms
Mistake 22: “As You Know”
Mistake 23: Foreign Words
Mistake 24: Filler Words
Mistake 25: The Wrong Approach!!!
Mistake 26: No Audience Involvement 
Mistake 27: Slide Mix
Mistake 28: Thinking You Are A God!?
Mistake 29: Staying Behind Something
Mistake 30: No Eye Contact
Mistake 31: Hands Behind The Back
Mistake 32: Talking Fast
Mistake 33: Irrelevant Demos
Mistake 34: Summarize The Demo
Mistake 35: Not Sure In Your Demo
Mistake 36: Writing Code Live
Mistake 37: No Data Source Referenced
Mistake 38: Spelling Errors
Mistake 39: Weak End
Mistake 40: The Microphone
Mistake 41: Too Much Text
Mistake 42: 16:9 not 4:3 
Mistake 43: PowerPoint Templates
Mistake 44: No Text Animation
Mistake 45: Weird Animations
Mistake 46: 3D Stuff
Mistake 47: Images Everywhere
Mistake 48: Different Fonts
Mistake 49: Color Combinations
Mistake 50: Slideshow, please!

You read them all? Let me know what you think in the comments!

Filed Under: Presentation Skills & Presentation Design, Public Speaking Tagged With: Career Development, Mentoring, PowerPoint, SoftUni, Training