{"id":3123,"date":"2015-02-25T17:19:20","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T17:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/?p=3123"},"modified":"2015-02-25T17:20:03","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T17:20:03","slug":"presentations-training-whats-in-it-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/presentations-training-whats-in-it-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Presentations training &#8211; what&#8217;s in it for you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2173\" src=\"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/TP_feedback_march_2013-300x245.png\" alt=\"TP_feedback_march_2013\" width=\"300\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/TP_feedback_march_2013-300x245.png 300w, http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/TP_feedback_march_2013.png 977w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>It&#8217;s not unusual for us to get full marks from participants in our presentations training. We even got called<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">the best trainer I have ever encountered<\/span>&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>in one spontaneous email.<\/p>\n<p>My three favourite bits of feedback ever, however, are listed below for a bit of a giggle.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On a gig when we&#8217;d been told there were large numbers but they didn&#8217;t sell any tickets it meant I took a member of my team with me who ended up not being needed so she just sat in the corner&#8230; the feedback? \u00a0&#8220;Great delivery but what was the pretty one supposed to do?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Or how about this bit of feedback? &#8220;Fantastic. Revolutionised my approach to presenting. But [I] should warn you that [company] won&#8217;t adopt your approach for new presentations cos it makes our old ones look too crap!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>And finally &#8220;Best use of storytelling I&#8217;ve ever seen! Don&#8217;t go into politics!&#8221;. The same person also added &#8220;Sell the Renault and buy a Porshe &#8211; arrive\u00a0like you deliver.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have to admit I&#8217;m not quite sure how to take that last bit&#8230; it rather depends on which Porshe you&#8217;re talking about. I&#8217;m going to assume it&#8217;s a midnight black 911.<\/p>\n<p>Old school! ;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not unusual for us to get full marks from participants in our presentations training. We even got called &#8220;the best trainer I have ever encountered&#8220; in one spontaneous email. My three favourite bits of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3123","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\/3123","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=3123"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3125,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123\/revisions\/3125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}