by Alan | Nov 21, 2006 | Communication skills, Content, PowerPoint
David Ferrabee blogs today about how information and technology is commonly confused with communication. He is spot on.Communication defined involves interchange or transmission of ideas. So often when I talk to folks about what they want to say, they start with...
by Alan | Nov 12, 2006 | Communication skills, Content, PowerPoint, public speaking
Lots of speakers provide handouts. It’s a good idea. It gives the listener a take-away and future reminder of the content — at a minimum they’re faced with the decision of whether to throw the handout away or not. That is more follow-up than a...
by Alan | Oct 16, 2006 | Communication skills, Delivery, PowerPoint, public speaking
Watching some sports talk ‘analysis’ tonite — three ex-jocks trying to elaborate on the finer points of a game that admittedly is not my number one passion. I was having trouble paying attention, and tried to figure out the reason why. I think I...
by Alan | Aug 20, 2006 | Communication skills, Content, Delivery, PowerPoint
Watched a marketing rah-rah session the other day. Of course, the ubiquitous PowerPoint was front and center, running the show. When it becomes obvious that the content will be driven entirely by what’s on the screen, the presenter loses the ability to connect...
by Alan | Aug 8, 2006 | Communication skills, Content, Delivery, Efficiency, PowerPoint
Walked in to teach a class today to discover that the handouts I had requested were not present, two of the notebooks had the wrong cover sheet (and were thus not distributed correctly), and the printed roster was not accurate. A prop I had used the last time I...
by Alan | Jun 25, 2006 | Communication skills, PowerPoint
A friend attending a conference populated by, designed for, and speakers taken from the populace of highly technical folks (i.e., geeks) related this story, which I found to be both funny and enlightening.The conference runs from 900am until almost 1000pm each day. ...
