by Alan | Jun 11, 2007 | Communication skills, Content, Delivery, PowerPoint
In another presentation I witnessed at last week’s conference (and LOTS more to come from that), I watched a rather academic session digress into long-winded narration of PowerPoint. The slides got worse and worse and the presentation less and less interactive...
by Alan | Jun 9, 2007 | Communication skills, Delivery, Don't!, public speaking
In one of the ASTD presentations I was in this past week, the presenter had given the talk earlier in the week. Evidently the feedback forms had already been turned in and seen by the presenter, because he referenced them several times.Part of the session was on...
by Alan | Jun 6, 2007 | Efficiency, Leadership, public speaking
I heard this quote (no attribution) the other week:”We spend far too much time on our jobs, and far too little on ourselves.”I spent a little time improving myself this week at the ASTD ICE conference. It was quite amazing, and I come back with gobs of...
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by Alan | May 31, 2007 | Communication skills, Delivery, Leadership, Parenting, public speaking
Working with The Boy’s Tee Ball team tonight. We’ve really been working on his throwing. Hold the ball high. Step — throw — follow through. Sometimes he does; sometimes he doesn’t. Tonight for the first time, we seemed to have a...
by Alan | May 28, 2007 | Communication skills, Content, Delivery, Leadership
Traveling through DCA airport104 last week. As thousands of my closest friends and I sat waiting for our chance to be called as the next contestant on the “So you want to be a sardine” game show, not once but twice an alarm sounded on a gate door. In...
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by Alan | May 27, 2007 | Communication skills, Content, Don't!, Parenting
Been a long time. I’ll get back to it. Promise.Did have the thrill of attending Edward Tufte’s last week. I’ll have more about the seminar later, but I snapped this picture in the lobby. I was left wondering what message I should take away from...
