{"id":453,"date":"2009-11-10T13:36:30","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T12:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elementally.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/?p=453"},"modified":"2009-11-10T13:36:30","modified_gmt":"2009-11-10T12:36:30","slug":"453","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/453\/","title":{"rendered":"Working it!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.curved-vision.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/2009\/11\/09\/a-simple-truism\/\">yesterday<\/a> about how important it is to work hard in your preparation, not just the presentation itself.  A sports coach I heard of recently summed that all up with the phrase &#8220;<strong>Train hard &#8211; play easy<\/strong>&#8220;.   :)<\/p>\n<p>I like that.<\/p>\n<p>My old piano teacher was a concert pianist and I once asked him what he thought about during recitals &#8211; did he concentrate just on the interpretation, or was he still thinking a little about the technicalities?  I can still remember his answer: &#8220;Neither &#8211; I count the audience&#8221;.  He didn&#8217;t mean it literally, of course, just that as a performer he should be so well prepared he <strong>couldn&#8217;t<\/strong> get it wrong, technically&#8230; if needed, he <em>could<\/em> count the audience.<\/p>\n<p>So how does one prepare?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not about doing it over and over, fortunately.<\/p>\n<p>Go over the presentation and find what works &#8211; then forget about working on those bits because they don&#8217;t need to be worked on!  Obviously.<\/p>\n<p>The bits you need to look at (and look at hard) are those bits that <em>don&#8217;t<\/em> work.   Far, far too often we find clients who come to use saying things like &#8220;I&#8217;ve been over it a dozen times and I still get it right!&#8221;; our response is, basically, that there&#8217;s no wonder it doesn&#8217;t work if that&#8217;s all you&#8217;ve done&#8230; you need to find the bits that are more difficult and go over those hundreds of times, not dozens.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately you don&#8217;t need to do it <strong>all<\/strong> over a hundred times!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking yesterday about how important it is to work hard in your preparation, not just the presentation itself. A sports coach I heard of recently summed that all up with the phrase &#8220;Train [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bttradspace-blog-competition","category-presentation-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","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=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}