Garr Reynolds finds plenty of great examples for me. In this short video he takes the time to explain his approach to Presentation Zen. While he’s doing it, he does a pretty good job of explaining death by Powerpoint.
Archive for June, 2009
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Jun
09
Presentation Zen
The Brinker Club has an opportunity to be featured in a taping of an episode of Mastering Business Communications, District 27’s public access cable program. Details are still sketchy, but the taping will probably occur on a Wednesday evening in July. Stay tuned if you’re interested. I’ll post information as soon as it becomes available.
Here’s an idea I can really get excited about: a planning system that aims for work-life balance, not just getting stuff done. If I was a developer, I’d rush a web app into production!
20
Jun
09
Presention Camp LA
Interesting chatter on Twitter from Presentation Camp LA:
RT @SlideRocket: “I think bad presentations are a low level communications crime” – Andy Goodman #pcampla
35% people fail to rehearse – according to Andy Goodman’s research. They hear it for the first time at same as audience.
Effective though. Toastmasters club meeting at a base camp on Mt. Everest. Anybody got a marketing idea like this for our club?
(Thanks to Debbie Roes for making this known on Twitter.)
14
Jun
09
Strategy for Evaluation
In today’s New York Times, you’ll find an article in the Business Section that contains a sound strategy for evaluation. Speaking of giving feedback to employees he manages, video game designer Will Wright has this to say:
A lot of the people I’ve managed — artists, programmers, producers — they don’t want to know just if they are doing a good job or not. They want to be pushed and challenged in their career.So, if they feel like you are presenting things to them in such a way that, a year later, they are definitely going to be a better artist or a better programmer, then it really feels like a win-win. Even if you give them tough critical feedback, they see the benefit and value of it, as opposed to just a typical performance review.
Wouldn’t it be powerful if we remembered this lesson every time we gave a speech evaluation and made sure we were giving the speaker advice he or she could grow on for a year or more?
