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73 Articles match "Exercises","Questions"
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Monday, March 15, 2010
You want to call on audience members, to acknowledge them and their questions, or to invite them to participate in some way. A good old-fashioned, "Yes, the woman in the red jacket," or "Yes, what's your question?" If you know their names, use them. "Bob, did you have a question on that last point?" I once attended a political forum that gave "pointed" a whole new meaning, when an audience member asked how much time the candidates would spend on their elected role. One candidate looked at the front row where the other candidate's family--including newborn twins--was seated.
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Thursday, March 4, 2010
In part 2 I outlined a step by step exercise to allow you to “walk up” the logical to help create internal alignment and in turn enhance “stage presence”.
Once you have a real felt sense presenting and and public speaking is a natural expression of who you are as a unique and special human being step forward taking your new sense of identity with you into the level of Beliefs and Values and answer the following questions;
Here in the final part of this article I will explain how, having “walked up” the levels from Environment through Behaviour, Capability and Beliefs to Identity , you can now integrate all those insights by turning round and walking back down through each of the levels.
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Tuesday, March 2, 2010
In part 1 of this article I introduced you to Dilt’s Logical Levels model and suggested that it could be used as an exercise to help create internal alignment and in turn enhance “stage presence”.
Now lay out these levels in front of you on the floor starting with Behaviour closest to you and finishing up with identity. What you will be doing shortly is walking forward slowly, spending time at each of these levels and answering the questions I will pose below. So here is how you do it. Start by getting five pieces of paper and labelling each piece with a different logical level, i.e.
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Saturday, March 28, 2009
Here was his question:
Asking trite questions which don’t add value to the presentation
Asking unplanned, confusing questions
Ideally, you would plan for audience participation exercises to be roughly evenly spaced through the presentation. However, having Yesterday I had a skype conversation with Twitter follower Todd (@TJList) on how to include audience participation in a presentation. He’s presenting on getting through the economic downturn to an audience of small business owners.
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Monday, March 15, 2010
You want to call on audience members, to acknowledge them and their questions, or to invite them to participate in some way. A good old-fashioned, "Yes, the woman in the red jacket," or "Yes, what's your question?" If you know their names, use them. "Bob, did you have a question on that last point?" I once attended a political forum that gave "pointed" a whole new meaning, when an audience member asked how much time the candidates would spend on their elected role. One candidate looked at the front row where the other candidate's family--including newborn twins--was seated.
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Monday, March 31, 2008
Professional and public speakers before delivering their presentations to any group, need to ask many questions of the program chair so that their material is relevant to that audience. Will this audience respond to my interactive exercises? • those speakers who ask many questions prior to an engagement are more successful at the platform. (C)2008 www.schrift.co Here are a few to consider: • Who will be attending this program? (sexual sexual mix, how many,age range, work titles) • What are the goals and objectives of this meeting/program? •
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Sunday, March 29, 2009
Professional and public speakers before delivering their presentations to any group, need to ask many questions of the program chair so that their material is relevant to that audience. Will this audience respond to my interactive exercises? those speakers who ask many questions prior to an engagement are more successful at the platform. (C)2009 www.schrift.co Here are a few to consider: Who will be attending this program? (sexual sexual mix, age range, work titles) What are the goals and objectives of this meeting/program?
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Or if your presentation includes interactive exercises for the audience take those moments to look at the Twitterstream.
For example, display the screen when you’ve asked a question and want people to respond via Twitter or when you invite audience members to ask their questions using Twitter. You ask a question and the audience responds by tweeting @poll and including a specific number with their answer. 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
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Monday, June 8, 2009
Just as an exercise I took this list of "10 things" and made them into ten slides that could be a part of a lesson of sorts. Obviously the slides alone raise as many questions as they answer. Still, more than anything this was merely an exercise in making visuals that may be used in a future Ignite talk.
The other day I was watching this interview with Eric Schlosser on The Colbert Report. Schlosser is the author of Fast Food Nation and was on Colbert to promote a new documentary called Food, Inc.
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009
In preparation for her talk she asked me if there would be a way to reproduce an exercise called “Speaker & Audience Mapping” that she usually leads in the slideology workshops . The exercise goes like this: the audience picks one of a dozen different audience types (eg. Then Nancy asks the entire group to shout out responses to several questions. Last month Nancy Duarte spoke at Web2.0 Expo and it was a huge success.
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Friday, August 21, 2009
Ice breakers; presentation of formal content; software demos (for IT training); group exercises and activities; discussion; formative and summative assessment
Slides; electronic whiteboard; questions/polls; shared applications; website tours; text chat
Voice; text chat; electronic whiteboard; questions/polls; application sharing; break-out rooms
Unless I’ve missed something important, there seem to be three distinct uses for real-time online commmunications. The following table represents a first attempt at clarifying the discriminating characteristics
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Sunday, September 27, 2009
Besides relieving stress and keeping you fit, exercise seems to stimulate ideas. also asked this question on Posterous — checkout the good suggestions by others there as well. Related books • One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way • The Toyota Wa Kaizen (??) means "improvement" — "kai" (?)
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Thursday, April 9, 2009
Have the audience do an exercise, answer a question, watch a movie, or move their bodies in some way every 20 minutes. Stop every 20 or 25 minutes and ask the audience if they have a question. Or better yet, ask them a question for a show of hands. One way to think about public speaking is that’s it’s a game of attention. You have to keep people’s attention in order for them to learn anything from you.
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