by Alan | Mar 16, 2006 | Communication skills, Delivery
Another day of presentations, more common errors. Today seemed to be the “oh, excuse me, I just made a mistake” day. If you stutter, stumble, lose your place, even start the wrong presentation, everyone listening probably already knows. You don’t...
by Alan | Mar 15, 2006 | Communication skills, Delivery, Parenting
Worked with several presenters in the last few days. In most every case we are making great progress getting them into a unique approach that will capture their audience’s attention and being true to their message, their personality, and their comfort. But in...
by Alan | Mar 13, 2006 | Communication skills, Delivery, Don't!
Saw a presenter recently utilize some signs as part of their presentation. I thought it was a nice way to highlight some key points, provided a nice pause to put the signs out (of course you would pause — you wouldn’t talk while you did that, would you?),...
by Alan | Mar 8, 2006 | Communication skills, Delivery
I know. It’s Wednesday. But a point from a recent class makes me think of Tuesday.Working with a hands-on lab, demo-driven with student exercises. It’s a long class and keeping up and attentive is hard for students and instructor alike. One particular...
by Alan | Mar 8, 2006 | Communication skills, Delivery
Teaching a three-day class. It’s long for everyone. Had a section where there was a key point that needed to be made. I made it, repeated it, repeated it again, summarized it, and felt like the horse was beaten beyond the grave. And then…I had a student...
by Alan | Mar 6, 2006 | Communication skills, Delivery, Don't!
Heard a speaker the other day enter that cardinal sin world of talking about time. It was subtle — “… and we’ll end with this…” So many problems with this. His main problem was… he didn’t end with that. He went on,...
