means good — but as the term is used as a business process it more closely resembles in English “continuous improvement.” Besides relieving stress and keeping you fit, exercise seems to stimulate ideas. Kaizen (??) means "improvement" — "kai" (?) means change/make better, and "zen" (?)

In the process of discovering and adapting, serendipity will also emerge - you will uncover new opportunities. Collating and distributing this user-generated content now goes from a time-consuming manual process to a few seconds of copy/paste. This need not be a full exercise - ad hoc questions serve nicely and save you from needing to script your entire engagement. This is a guest post by Roger Courville. You can find out more about Roger in his bio at the end of this post.

How do you handle the spaces in between your points, stories, examples, and exercises? Clear transitions help the audience stay focused (and awake) and process your material. We talk a lot about organizing our content, main points, opening and closing, but we rarely talk about how to get from one segment to the next. These are your transitions .

Keller suggests the use of sensory stimuli (online that includes the use of sound, animation and webcam video), thought-provoking questions and variability in the use of exercises and media. So, explain up-front what the process will be and how long it will take; and express your own confidence in the likelihood that they will succeed, ideally using evidence from previous interventions. You may have come across John Keller’s ARCS model for student motivation. It’s not a model that I’ve used myself, at least not consciously, but I stumbled upon it again recently

Before you start visualization exercises for your presentations, practice your delivery and know your material. As soon as you know your material — but not too well — do the following activities to start your visualization process. I’ve repeatedly read about visualization and its effectiveness in helping presenters get ready for a presentation. This tool calms the nerves of those who fear giving presentations.

This process has been simplified in the latest Keynote with the new, ginormous theme picker chock full of interesting templates, but I almost always start with standard black. This presentation is far from done, but a design exercise is a great mental break from working on the message. Designing for Failure At the end of this process, the slides should have a shape and a cadence. home tech life management vegas glossary archives about Tech Life You’re the presentation Keynote Kung-fu Two You’ve taken some hits. Being taken apart

Discover all the muscles in your mouth, throat and chest dedicated to speaking, and learn how to exercise them. Speak quickly for comic effect, or to emphasize the complexity of a process. People are looking at you for a while–even if they don’t process your clothes consciously, they’ll do so in the background cycles of their brain. DarrenBarefoot.com Contact Jobs Speaking About Home September 3rd, 2007 Filed under: Mixed Bag , Technology , The Arts 71 Comments » Everything I Know About Presentations, I Learned in Theatre School An Unlikely Education I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while, and was inspired to get it done by Merlin Mann’s recent piece about improving his use of PowerPoint.

I’ve been giving some thought to how you could undertake an effective brainstorming exercise in an online meeting. The electronic whiteboard is the obvious tool to use for this process. If I was distracted for a while by a distant memory that the word ‘brainstorming’ had been deemed offensive to epileptics and that we should now use the term ‘thought showers’ instead, but thankfully it seems that this whole idea has been rejected – see TrainingZone .

If you care to read more, a few of the mode popular posts on this site include: Dear Speakers , a set of thoughts for public speakers that I pulled together in March, 2009; Hacking the R-Strap , detailing my efforts to improve a decent camera strap concept; and Tilting at the Windmill, One Last Time , a call to Flickr to include important EXIF and ITPC metadata in the photographs they provide to the public. ← Previously, A Meaningless Exercise Next, D-Town Shout Out → 71 Comments "Please pick a spot and stay. The cost is nominal and the process

And it's a fascinating collaborative process as well. But on the flipside, when you have the chance to synthesize a lot of your thoughts into a book that will be a useful reference for people you care about, it is a good exercise. Is this your first time here? About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog 5 Reasons why you don't need to write a book Posted to: Blogging | Journalism September 14th, 2008 Del.icio.us Digg Reddit