Thanks for checking back to see the last of our 10 ideas for speaking at a conference. If you have not seen the first 6, follow the link below. Your content may not interesting to everyone in the room, and chances are, some may even leave. I was mortified the first time this happened to me, but over the years…
Hi, thanks for visiting and having a look through our next 3 thoughts about presenting at a conference. We are sharing (ranting about) things that we see happen often, things that don’t need to happen but usually do. Make friends with the tech guy or gal. Although they look scary all dressed in black and often in need of some…
We have attended and directed many conferences and have seen lots of presentations. It is time to let you all in on a few secrets, not to be rude, just to be helpful! Here are the first 3 things to share (rant about!), there are 7 more to come. 1. Your audience expects you to be pretty dull. Yep, they do, expectations…
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I thought it did not happen anymore. I mean, really, who in a training room in 2016 would actually ask the group to turn to the person next to them and give them a massage?!?! But it did, it actually did. Just last week a colleague was at a professional association’s education event and was asked to massage the shoulders…
Ever heard statements like these……….? “Sorry, this is just something we need to get through, it won’t be very interactive” “Sorry, this content is a bit dull, but stick with me and we will get through this” “Sorry, this is not my presentation, I have just been asked to deliver it” “I’m sorry, this slide is a bit hard to…
Most human beings like kids, most. They are fun, often cute, not bogged down with the responsibilities of adult life. People with kids like to look at them, even when they are away from them. They find opportunities to put their cute little faces on their desks, on their phones, on their computer desktops and wherever else they can digitally…
We all avoid things we don’t like doing. I avoid opening mail, paying bills, washing the car, exercising and having a prostate examination. Though it seems to me that many people would rather have an invasive procedure than rehearse a presentation. I prepare many people every year to present at a variety of events and the avoidance techniques I see…
We all know about Pavlov’s dog and the way we, become conditioned to respond to various stimuli. It seems that our conditioned response to a request to do a presentation has become an uncontrollable “double click” on PowerPoint (better than salivating I guess). What then seems to happen is we dump everything into PowerPoint that we would ever want to…
We get asked often, and yes, we did used to run public programs – unfortunately we don’t anymore. We do have an option for you though. There is an opportunity to attend the 2 day “Power to Train” train the trainer program with Dr Rich Allen PhD. We have worked with Dr Allen for many years, and for those of…