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...
by Alan | May 7, 2006 | Communication skills, Don't!
Heard a story from a presenter today who was using the story to draw an analogy which was very clear to the main point. Wonderful technique for helping an audience remember and apply. But there was a minor issue that really lost a lot of folks. The story was about...
by Alan | May 7, 2006 | Communication skills, Don't!, Leadership, Toastmasters
Had a great time speaking at Saturday’s Toastmaster’s District 37 Spring Conference. As always, the preparation and delivery taught me more than anyone will ever get out of one of my sessions. That’s the real joy of teaching.One of the nuggets from...
