{"id":2714,"date":"2015-02-15T12:14:49","date_gmt":"2015-02-15T12:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.curved-vision.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/?p=2459"},"modified":"2015-02-15T12:14:49","modified_gmt":"2015-02-15T12:14:49","slug":"presentations-who-we-wont-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/presentations-who-we-wont-train\/","title":{"rendered":"Presentations &#8211; Who we won&#8217;t train"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so you know we do presentation skills training, right? What you probably don&#8217;t know is our relatively strict policy on who we won&#8217;t train. Here you go&#8230;<\/p>\n<h3>Politics, religion and so on<\/h3>\n<p>We believe that everyone has the right to their own political, religious and other view. We&#8217;ll train anyone, from any party or religion (but see below)<\/p>\n<h3>Don&#8217;t be evil<\/h3>\n<p>Taking the Google motto as a slogan, we won&#8217;t train you if you want to use your newfound presentation skills to spread loathsome, vile, evil or pernicious points of view. So no one who wants to become a more effective racist, for example.<\/p>\n<h3>Amateurs only (sort of!)<\/h3>\n<p>Okay, we will train professional speakers but our default is to train people who have a &#8216;real job&#8217; that means they have to speak, rather than people whose job is (or who want it to be!) a professional speaker.<\/p>\n<p>Why? Because we don&#8217;t want to get involved with anyone who wants to<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>speak for the sake of speaking, to hear their own voice<\/li>\n<li>speak as part of their own therapy, to come to terms with bad stuff thats happened to them in the past<\/li>\n<li>speak for the sake of making themselves feel important.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fair enough?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>To be honest, this one&#8217;s a bit blurry and we tend to treat each case on an individual basis, balanced with other things.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Workers of the world unite<\/h3>\n<p>Learning how to make better presentations is pretty hard work. We reserve the right to say &#8216;no thanks&#8217; if we&#8217;re not convinced you&#8217;re serious. That doesn&#8217;t mean you can&#8217;t have a laugh\u00a0(God knows we do) but you need to work at least as hard as you laugh.<\/p>\n<p>And the equivalent of a quite giggle might not be enough.<\/p>\n<h3>Still interested?<\/h3>\n<p>Drop us a line: try leaving a comment and we&#8217;ll get back to you, soon! :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so you know we do presentation skills training, right? What you probably don&#8217;t know is our relatively strict policy on who we won&#8217;t train. Here you go&#8230; Politics, religion and so on We believe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bttradspace-blog-competition","category-personal-blog-related"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2714","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=2714"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2998,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2714\/revisions\/2998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}