ex·pe·ri·ence noun, verb, -enced, -enc·ing \ik-speer-ee-uhns\ There’s a part of your brain that ignores all your rational explanations and intellectual understandings of a potential future situation. This part of your brain says, “I want to live through it first… at least once… then I’ll believe what you’re saying about it.”
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Continuing from the last post, Biting the Bulletpoint: Scripts vs. Speakers Notes, let’s look at some of the alternative forms of speaker’s notes that presenters can use in order to stay on track as a speaker quickly glance at while speaking ..while not relying entirely on the ubiquitous — and frequently misused — approach of [...]
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A common thing you’ll hear from almost every business presenter (myself included) is this: “I’m much better when it’s a conversation, when I don’t have to follow a script.” This is because, for the most part, in business we’re not giving speeches… we’re having public conversations. However, there are many situations that demand notes — detailed [...]
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Don’t worry, this isn’t yet another post about Cloud Computing, written by someone who isn’t an engineer. Well, actually, it sorta is… but not like all the other ones you’ve read… Preamble: Move, Get Out the Way A colleague and I were discussing a client’s massive organizational and technological inefficiencies. The situation was hampering people’s ability to get [...]
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This post wasn’t written today. You’re reading something that’s been sitting, for over a month, in a backlog of incomplete blog posts (backblog?) that I’m nurturing in private and slowly-but-surely “releasing into the wild” of potential public view. If you’re looking for a way to improve your writing skills, this approach may work for you, too. What’s Does the Process [...]
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