March 2010

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• Author, Delivery, FAQs, Greg Owen-Boger, Mary Clare Healy, Myths Debunked, Video

  Should a Presenter Read from the Slides?

  03.31.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  On our Facebook fan page (www.facebook.com/TurpinCommunication) we recently asked our fans to “name something that a presenter does (or doesn’t do) that distracts you from hearing/understanding the speaker’s message.”
  Most of the responses had something to do with presenters reading their slides. While I agree that it’s distracting when someone lifelessly reads a slide full of [...]

• Author, Delivery, FAQs, Greg Owen-Boger, Video

  Asking Questions at the Beginning of a Presentation

  03.23.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  Have you ever asked a question at the beginning of a presentation and gotten nothing back from your audience?  Awkward, huh?  This comes up often in our presentation skills workshops.  Greg addresses this issue in today’s video blog.
  QUESTION: 
  I like to start things off by asking a bunch of questions.  Sometimes this works, but sometimes poeple [...]

• Author, Dale Ludwig, Delivery, Preparation

  Provide Structure through your Presentation’s Introduction

  03.16.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  As you know, a well-organized presentation has three parts: introduction, body and conclusion.

  The introduction gives your audience a sense of direction and purpose, and a reason to listen.
  The body is, of course, the main part of your presentation, where you deliver the details of your topic.
  The conclusion summarizes what you’ve said, outlines next steps and [...]

• Author, Dale Ludwig, Delivery, FAQs, Preparation, Video

  Preparing and Delivering Team Presentations

  03.09.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  Delivering Team Presentations can be challenging.  Not only do you have to engage your listeners in a thoughtful “orderly conversation,” (Greg blogged about this previously) you have to manage the unpredictability of your team members. 

  In this video blog, Dale Ludwig discusses a few simple ideas to help you be a well-rehearsed team.

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• Author, Delivery, Greg Owen-Boger, Preparation

  Which Hat to Wear? SME or Trainer?

  03.02.10 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  This post was inspired by a train-the-trainer session Dale Ludwig and I led two weeks ago.  We were working with a group of SMEs (subject matter experts) in the insurance industry as they prepared to deliver enterprise-wide training sessions. 
  Of course the SMEs knew a lot about their topics.  The problem was they wanted to share most [...]

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