by Alan | May 11, 2006 | Communication skills, Delivery, Don't!, Toastmasters
Got to evaluate a Toastmasters speech today. Evaluating is hard. This particular speech was made easier by the fact the presenter approached me beforehand and told me to “let ’em have it” — in other words, not to go easy and really help...
by Alan | May 10, 2006 | Communication skills, Delivery, PowerPoint, Sales
More from today’s Beyond Bullet Points presentation…Cliff did a live survey for the audience’s response as to what a “normal” (boring, bullet-drive) PPT presentation made them feel like. About 80% of respondants enterred one of two...
by Alan | May 10, 2006 | Communication skills, PowerPoint
Took in Cliff Atkinson’s Beyond Bullet Points webinar today. Interestingly enough, he had six violations of yesterday’s blog entry in the first 20 minutes 🙂 That said, I like his approach to cleaning up PowerPoint and his method will help thousands, to be...
by Alan | May 9, 2006 | Communication skills, Delivery, Don't!, Parenting, Toastmasters
This is one of my TTPP (Top Ten Pet Peeve’s). Tonite’s example was my nephew’s middle school band concert. Three separate times the band director said something to the effect of “Before we get started, I’d like to…” This...
by Alan | May 8, 2006 | Communication skills, PowerPoint
My session at Saturday’s Toastmasters conference was titled Interactive Techniques for Presentations. It’s still amazing to me how few presentations employ any techniques to get the crowd active and involved. But this isn’t true in kindergarten...
