Prof Gary Rolfe<\/p>\n
Rolfe – it\u2019s a good name, eh? Firstly, it\u2019 my middle name (yes, spelled with an \u2018e\u2019 on the end\u2019) and it\u2019s the name of Rolfe who devised the Rolfe Method (with others) for reflective practice, in 2001.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s start at the beginning – with what on earth \u2018reflective practice\u2019 is. Put simply, it\u2019s a formal, systematised way of looking back at what you\u2019ve done (such as a presentation, obviously!) and learning from it. Importantly you do it in a systematic way so that you<\/p>\n
Of course, as a professional presenter, you\u2019d expect me to carry out a bit of reflective practice at the end of every session – and I strongly, strongly <\/b>recommend it for you. If not, how are you to learn about what to improve? Of course, you can also get feedback from the people who heard and saw your present but I\u2019ve written in other places about the perils of heading feedback (or at least only <\/b>feedback).<\/p>\n
It\u2019s worth mentioning that there are, obviously, dozens and dozens of ways of carrying out reflective practice and your preferences and mileage may vary but the Rolfe Methodology is the one we use. For us it has the optimum trade-off of power vs convenience.
\nIt works like this. At the end of the presentation, ask yourself the question \u2018what\u2019 three times. Specifically ask it like this<\/p>\n
And here\u2019s the interpretation\u2026<\/p>\n
This is simply to ask yourself what happened. Be specific. Think in terms of actual acts, moments and events. After all, you can\u2019t learn anything from \u2018It went well\u2019 because there is nothing there you can actually work with and change.<\/p>\n
What were the consequences of this? The \u2018what\u2019 question is fine but it\u2019s the implications and consequences of things that happened that are important.<\/p>\n
Having looked at the \u2018so what\u2019 things, this is where you jot down what you\u2019re going to do about it. If it was something that went wrong, this is where you figure out how to stop it happening again: if it went well, look at how you can make sure it does <\/b>repeat.<\/p>\nReady for an example?<\/h1>\n
What?<\/strong> The venue didn\u2019t have a long enough VGA cable, to connect our laptop to their projector Simple, eh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Prof Gary Rolfe Rolfe – it\u2019s a good name, eh? Firstly, it\u2019 my middle name (yes, spelled with an \u2018e\u2019 on the end\u2019) and it\u2019s the name of Rolfe who devised the Rolfe Method (with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-presentation-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2941,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565\/revisions\/2941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSo What?<\/strong> This meant that the laptop had to be next to the projector, not where we wanted it
\nNow What?<\/strong> We now carry a 25m VGA cable ourselves so that we can put our laptop anywhere up to 25m from the projector.<\/p>\n