I should have added this post a while back but here it is anyway, as it relates to the world of facilitation too…
Getting to wow with public speaking (Credits: Jonny Goldstein/FlickR)
My current work environment is academic. Which means people around me produce a hell of a lot of information. And presentations.
I would have thought their presenting and public speaking skills were very good, considering… uh uh… not quite the case. And there are many reasons for that. But I guess many people around me are actually busy undertaking their research, not spending (so) much time fine-tuning their presentation. “It only takes a few minutes to put together a presentation”, right? UH UH!!
This a real pity, because it means entire years of research can see their future use be wasted by one single badly designed, or badly delivered presentation (or both). So after thinking about this for a while, and encouraged by a couple of colleagues who wanted to get this kind of information out, I put together a presentation about what…
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