{"id":51,"date":"2007-01-02T22:56:23","date_gmt":"2007-01-02T21:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elementally.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/2007\/01\/02\/new-years-pause-please\/"},"modified":"2007-01-02T22:56:23","modified_gmt":"2007-01-02T21:56:23","slug":"new-years-pause-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/new-years-pause-please\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year&#8217;s Pause&#8230;.. please!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\">I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m writing this on New Year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Day (happy New Year everyone!) at my sister-in-law\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s house.  Her son talks, as many small children do, without breathing in; at least, I swear if he needs to breathe in at all he must do so through his ears, because he never stops talking.  After a surprising short period of time, I stop noticing this feat, because I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve tuned him out: I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve stopped listening.  I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t understand what he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s saying so I stop making the attempt.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\">Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get me wrong, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not that he can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t talk properly \u00e2\u20ac\u201c he can.  It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just that without any breaks or pauses, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got no time to assimilate what he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s saying, no time to internally make sense of it.  Without that pause-time, your presentation is going to suffer too: the knack is to give people as much as they can handle in one burst and then stop until they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re ready for more.  Ifyouinsistupongivingthemallthethingsyouknowatonce you might as well tell them nothing at all \u00e2\u20ac\u201c because it won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t mean anything to them.  And as I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve said before, what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s important isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t what you say, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what they hear that counts!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\">Imagine this website without any punctuation \u00e2\u20ac\u201c no commas, full stops or even any headlines.  Could you understand it?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\">Unlikely.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">So don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t forget your presentation resolution \u00e2\u20ac\u201c punctuate your presentations! <\/font>:)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\">As of tomorrow, it&#8217;s back to work, doing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.curved-vision.co.uk\/\/\">presentation skills training<\/a> thing!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m writing this on New Year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Day (happy New Year everyone!) at my sister-in-law\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s house. Her son talks, as many small children do, without breathing in; at least, I swear if he needs to breathe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presentation-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}