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Wednesday, September 23, 2009
nice technique is to refer back to something you said at the beginning, and finish it. Tags: Content closing conclusion end Here is a sneak preview of some of the content of my 3-day workshop, “Create an Outstanding Presentation.&# It comes from Day 1: Content. Your ending is even more important than your beginning.
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Monday, April 26, 2010
After several hundred postings and a number of weeks, it is astonishing to see how many unsupportable conclusions have been reached. I’d refer all readers of online discussions that would like to tell you what we all believe back to the 1930’s book, “Straight and Crooked Thinking&# , by Robert H. Thouless. FOOTNOTE.
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Saturday, June 13, 2009
TWO TECHNIQUES FOR WINNING AND HOLDING THE FLOOR The video also provides some excellent illustrations of what the late Gail Jefferson, one of the founders of conversation analysis, referred to as ‘overlap competition’. viewers and listeners). Just answer the question ? you silly woman!” arrogant manner. No wonder the public hate them.”
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Monday, May 11, 2009
Third, if you want to overachieve, study the other panelists and their ideas in advance , and make friendly, polite comments when answering your questions that refer back to them. 0160; Just reference them and move on. Panels are a low form of public speaking. 0160; What are the secrets?
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Sunday, July 5, 2009
But viewers can also see the sequence of events just as well for themselves, and are therefore in a position to draw their own conclusions about what actually happened. If you've been following the recent debate about some of the more outrageous claims about non-verbal behaviour and body languge (e.g. Chomsky).
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
The percentages refer to what proportion of the responses listed that item and the percentages don’t add up perfectly since some people selected more or less than three. In the next few weeks I’ll be going through the comments that people wrote in and seeing what conclusions we can draw from them Can we trust those who responded?
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Monday, April 28, 2008
The reference reminded us of Virginia Woolf's essay (adapted from an eloquent series of lectures, A Room of One's Own , in which she looked at the question of whether women writers could reach the same level of quality as Shakespeare. Check out the online version here. Photo by mharrsch ).
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009
So I took out a pad of paper and we stepped back and talked about what the call to action was and what reasons led to the conclusion that someone should take this action. If a potential client does not have the time or desire to look at the message, I am happy to refer them to others.
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Sunday, April 12, 2009
The paper is a defining analysis of how turn-taking works in everyday conversation, central to which is the most basic rule of all, namely ‘one speaker at a time’ – a rule so basic that we even have words in our language – ‘interruption’ and ‘interjection’ – for referring to breaches of it (i.e. speaking while someone else is speaking).
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Monday, July 13, 2009
If you need a lot of text as reference material after the meeting, create a separate handout in Word or use the hidden slide technique to create a PowerPoint file that contains all the text but doesn’t have you presenting a “wall of text”. Here are some thoughts on making these types of presentations better with PowerPoint.
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