{"id":92,"date":"2010-02-15T13:30:37","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T12:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elementally.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/?p=92"},"modified":"2010-02-15T13:30:37","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T12:30:37","slug":"get-to-the-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/get-to-the-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Get to the point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"spear point\" alt=\"spear point\" src=\"http:\/\/www.curved-vision.co.uk\/images\/spearpoint.png\" align=\"left\" \/> The world&#8217;s most simple analogy for a decent presentation&#8230; :)<\/p>\n<p>The presentation is the tip of the spear.  Sure, it&#8217;s the bit people notice and are frightened of (the spear-tip, not the presentation!) but it&#8217;s useless without<\/p>\n<li>the shaft &#8211; the backup in terms of designing and researching your presentation; getting the audience&#8217;s key interests sorted out and so on; and<\/li>\n<li>the throw to hit the enemy &#8211; the skill with which you actually <strong>deliver<\/strong> your presentation.<\/li>\n<p>Don&#8217;t just concentrate on the tip!  Get the other things right first: you can&#8217;t attach a spear-tip to a shaft that isn&#8217;t their or is bent&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s most simple analogy for a decent presentation&#8230; :) The presentation is the tip of the spear. Sure, it&#8217;s the bit people notice and are frightened of (the spear-tip, not the presentation!) but it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","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\/92","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=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}