by Alan | Oct 22, 2005 | Communication skills, Delivery
Worked with a presenter yesterday on polishing his presentation. His self-proclaimed weakness was “openings and closings”. We started with openings.We moved from “Good morning. I’m A and I’m the B of C and I’m happy to tell you...
by Alan | Oct 20, 2005 | Communication skills, Delivery
Had a one-on-one meeting today with someone who refused to look at me. Must have been something on the wall behind me of great interest. I wasn’t necessarily offended, but it did make the conversation seem rather unimportant to them (it was very important to...
by Alan | Oct 19, 2005 | Communication skills, Delivery
I was again blessed to win the Toastmasters humorous speech contest (now at the division level) tonite. I’m continually amazed at the different talents in this organization — everyone brings something a little different to the table, and there is always a...
by Alan | Oct 17, 2005 | Communication skills, Delivery, Don't!
Back to our class from last week.To review: great presenter, good material. But logistics needed a slight improvement.Today’s topic: Time. Time management for the class was loose, at best. Most breaks ran over 10-15 minutes (and a maximum of 24 minutes) due to...
by Alan | Oct 11, 2005 | Communication skills, Delivery, Don't!, PowerPoint
Sat in on a large meeting (~200) today. Based on feedback, folks apparently were bored stiff.At one point, a presenter made the comment “As I talk to this slide…”. Things were a little less than interactive. The scheduled 90-minute program lasted...
by Alan | Oct 10, 2005 | Communication skills, Delivery, Don't!, Sales
Sat in on a sales presentation today. Don’t know that I could more highly recommend Jeffrey Gitomer’s book(s) for folks that do this for a living. The audience was convinced in 90 seconds of what they needed to know — this was not the product or...
