Okay, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve all seen lists like this before but we all ignore them. Why? Because we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to believe that the things on them are sensible, in terms of our time; perhaps we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think we need to do what is being suggested – or perhaps we think we already do. Maybe we just don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think we need to do it badly enough to put the effort it.<\/p>\n
Think about it for a moment.. then recall the number of times you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve read a self-help book and not done the exercises. For me, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a higher number than I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d want to admit. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sure it is for you, too. If I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d done all the exercises in fitness books that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d ever read, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d be the fittest man on the face of the planet. As it is, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not the fittest man on my street – and my street only has five houses on it!<\/p>\n
So – to put it bluntly – there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s limited point in lists of <\/p>\n
and<\/p>\n
when it comes to making presentations and doing public speaking.<\/p>\n
Quite apart from the fact that most of the advice in these lists is superficial (yes, I know I shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t<\/em> say Errrm a lot when I make presentations, please don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t tell me not to… tell me how<\/strong> not to!) the fact is that the advice, even when it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s good advice, all too often doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get taken.<\/p>\n Why not?<\/p>\n To be honest, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know; but I suspect it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s something to do with the fact that the motivation to change just isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t there. People don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t change their behaviour unless the pain of not changing (or the benefit of making the change) is not great enough to justify the move and also great enough to overcome the pain of the actual process of changing. Given that I ask a lot of my clients sometimes, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a lot of pain they need to be in. :)<\/p>\n So what to do about it?<\/p>\n It seems to me that the answer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fairly obvious. Instead of just listing the changes that need to be made by potential presenters, we need to think about why<\/strong> those changes need to be made.<\/p>\n What say you?<\/p>\n Most lists say I need to learn to breathe properly – sure, but how? Any what motivation would I need to spend time flat on my back doing the necessary diaphragm exercises?<\/p>\n Most lists say I need to make sure I know what my audience is like – absolutely, but how? And what motivation do I need to overcome my shyness about meeting them first?<\/p>\n Most lists say I need to make sure I don’t try and say to much – agreed, but how? And what motivation do I need to learn the techniques for designing presentations correctly?<\/p>\n What say you?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Okay, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve all seen lists like this before but we all ignore them. Why? Because we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to believe that the things on them are sensible, in terms of our time; perhaps we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-key-posts","category-presentation-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615","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=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}