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The Latest from Craig Strachan - Keep Talking!
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Monday, August 30, 2010
I am often asked for my views on keeping the stories in a speech completely accurate as to what happened, as opposed to embellishing the story to make a great speech. My response is that while you need to be true to your stories, you must also be true to your message. Make sure that your audience remembers your message. The truth is important, yes.
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Friday, August 27, 2010
Gary Bailey. Some tips I picked up from Gary (ex goal keeper for Manchester United) at our Toastmasters conference. Enjoy! Manchester United: Is a $1 billion business. Has 300 million customers. Delivers weekly to its customers. The principles of a good soccer team apply to business as well… Be tough- learns to takes knocks. Raise your energy.
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Ali Bacher and ,me. Dr Ali Bacher spoke at our Toastmasters conference in May. Here are a few lessons from him. Return correspondence within 24 hours. Brevity – 2 pages (both speaking and writing). Workplace structures are meaningless (my version is that titles are meaningless). Look after quality people that make it happen.
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The Best from Craig Strachan - Keep Talking!
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
On Monday evening, I ran a PowerPoint Karaoke contest at the Cape Communicators Toastmaster Club. This is the first one that I have ran, and it was a fantastic evening! We had about 10 people who were each given a random deck of PowerPoint slides, and they were given about three minutes to present a presentation using their slides. and 3 minutes.
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Thursday, June 4, 2009
Humour tips from Bo Benet of Talking Toastmasters - you can listen to the podcast here. Never take credit for somebody else’s joke. Don’t tell the same joke over and over. Be appropriate to the audience. Keep it short – long jokes are confusing, and prone to mishaps. Be smooth – delivery is as important as the content (if not more so).
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Monday, August 30, 2010
I am often asked for my views on keeping the stories in a speech completely accurate as to what happened, as opposed to embellishing the story to make a great speech. My response is that while you need to be true to your stories, you must also be true to your message. Make sure that your audience remembers your message. The truth is important, yes.
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Friday, August 27, 2010
Gary Bailey. Some tips I picked up from Gary (ex goal keeper for Manchester United) at our Toastmasters conference. Enjoy! Manchester United: Is a $1 billion business. Has 300 million customers. Delivers weekly to its customers. The principles of a good soccer team apply to business as well… Be tough- learns to takes knocks. Raise your energy.
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Ali Bacher and ,me. Dr Ali Bacher spoke at our Toastmasters conference in May. Here are a few lessons from him. Return correspondence within 24 hours. Brevity – 2 pages (both speaking and writing). Workplace structures are meaningless (my version is that titles are meaningless). Look after quality people that make it happen.
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The Latest from the Speaking Pro Central Community
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Friday, September 3, 2010
Ellen Finkelstein has organized a series of webinar presentations with a great line up of presenters. And not only will you not have any travel and accommodation costs, the webinars themselves are free! To sign up for the webinars go to this webpage: Outstanding Presentations Workshop. Here’s the schedule for the webinars. Speaker. Times.
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Friday, September 3, 2010
Enthusiasm is a necessary qualification for effective speaking. When you show enthusiasm it is contagious. The enjoyment and knowledge that is demonstrated for your subject will result in increased listener enjoyment and your speech being more convincing. The feeling of excitement must come through as you deliver. Have an active interest in people.
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Thursday, September 2, 2010
My congratulations to Mike Folie (a speechwriting seminar alum) and Tim Becker, who announced that their spec screenplay, THEY SHOOT WEDDINGS, DON’T THEY?, is one of 35 finalists in the Final Draft Big Break Scriptwriting Contest. This is quite an honor … more than 3,500 entries were submitted from around the world.Go
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The Best from the Speaking Pro Central Community
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Monday, May 11, 2009
TED has earned a lot of attention over the years for many reasons, including the nature and quality of its short-form conference presentations. All presenters lucky enough to be asked to speak at TED are given 18-minute slots maximum (some are for even less time such as 3- and 6-minute slots). Ben Saunders ). Thou Shalt Tell a Story. Although Dr.
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Monday, September 7, 2009
Exposing ourselves to traditional Japanese aesthetic ideas — notions that may seem quite foreign to most of us — is a good exercise in lateral thinking, a term coined by Edward de Bono in 1967. Lateral Thinking is for changing concepts and perception," says de Bono. Seven principles for changing your perception Kanso (??) Fukinsei (???) Shizen (??)
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Monday, August 10, 2009
Most people do not really think about design and designers, let alone think of themselves as designers. But what, if anything, can regular people — teachers, students, business people of all types — learn from designers and from thinking like a designer? And what of more specialized professions? believe there is. 1) Embrace constraints.
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Presenting while people are tweeting is challenging – but also adds a new dimension to the presentation experience for your audience. Gradually tools are being developed to make it easier for you as the presenter to manage the backchannel. would love to see more tools available which work within the most common slideware – PowerPoint and Keynote.
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009
At last, we have some scientifically rigorous evidence to show that slides full of bullet-points don’t work. The research is the work of Chris Atherton , a cognitive psychologist. Chris recently delivered a presentation at the Technical Communication UK Conference and has put up her slides on slideshare. The research. Sparse slides.
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