We all know that practice is important to a strong presentation, but I’m beginning to think about expanding my definition of practice to include the practice of the “ideas” or the “content” of the presentation, as opposed to just practicing delivery. In the teaching of writing, this is usually the revision stage where we go [...]
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MAKING TIME TO PRACTICE OUR IDEAS
Posted in Uncategorized on April 30, 2008 | 12 Comments »
Nervous? Remember, it’s not about you. It’s all about them.
Posted in Uncategorized on April 23, 2008 | 16 Comments »
There has been a lot written about how to overcome nervousness in presenting. My feeling is that it really helps for the speaker to consider the question, “why are you giving this presentation?” The answer to that question is probably not, “to show off how good of a speaker I am” or “to illustrate my [...]
Do You Have a WISC?
Posted in Uncategorized on April 2, 2008 | 17 Comments »
We all know what a WIIFY is (what’s in it for you), but do you know what a WISC is? Thanks to Jacob Brier, who came up with this acronym for the phrase Why I Should Care (WISC). That’s the question that every audience member will ask him or herself during your presentation and your [...]
Transformation Not Transference (continued)
Posted in Uncategorized on April 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Female MBAs As an example of transformation, not transference, take a look at some slides prepared by my colleague, Richard Miscovich. The first slide represents transference, the three that follow represent various ways of transforming the data.
Transformation Not Transference
Posted in Uncategorized on March 25, 2008 | 8 Comments »
I’d like to build on something that I mentioned last week about making the content of presentations come alive. I said, “We need to do more than transfer information from an outside source to our audience; we need to instead transform information by doing something with it—filtering it through our consciousness or experiences; putting it [...]
Presentation Planning Part 2
Posted in Uncategorized on March 19, 2008 | 8 Comments »
I think this is where Aristotle’s rhetorical triangle comes in—because in Aristotle’s understanding of rhetoric, credibility is connected to two things, the message itself (or the content) and the speaker’s ability to tap into the needs of the audience. So if we are not lucky enough to have some kind of reputation that precedes us [...]
Presentation Planning
Posted in Uncategorized on March 17, 2008 | 8 Comments »
I’ve had enough of grappling with the philosophical question of what makes a good presentation—I’m a little dizzy. Instead I want to move on to more practical matters. So I’m thinking a lot about what good presentation planning should include. Here are some ideas:
Rhetorical Genuiness (or an appropriate topic). One of the big differences between [...]
What makes a good presentation (again)?
Posted in Uncategorized on March 11, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I’ve been watching many interesting presentations lately on the internet. Check out the Toastmaster’s world champion of public speaking at this link: http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=UpnGvCMstWg&feature=related and check out the amazing array of presentations from the TED conference here: http://www.ted.com/index.php
As I search for useful models (because I am teaching students about how to give a good presentation), I [...]
