This one simple habit can supercharge your presentations
I was not a very good student. I didn’t do my homework. I cut up in class. I didn’t pay attention to boring lectures. And I took terrible notes.
The fact that I have two Ivy League doctoral level degrees still astonishes me.
Just kidding, I barely made it out with my BA degree from State U.
But I kind of turned that around. When I stumbled upon design and then public speaking, I became a rabid learner. I guess it is just a matter of making the right connection and getting motivated.
There happens to be a habit or technique I have developed over the years that has helped me immeasurably to become a much better designer, speaker and PowerPoint poobah.
And it is so simple to implement.
Do a written debrief. Of your presentations. Of other people’s presentations. Of any major event, either good or bad, that you might be able to learn from.
I often do a top ten list: “Ten things I learned from seeing Joe, Speaker Boy at Acme Parachutes corporate event.” These lists usually end up being much more than ten observations but the idea of debriefing my crowded brain and writing them down forces me to rethink what I had recently seen and put it into lessons to be learned.
I keep a notebook with all these lists. I write them usually within the next day. And I must admit, I almost never go back to read them.
But the act of formally noting these lessons and writing them down burns them into my mind.
There is always something to learn and when you see the world’s best, or the world’s worst, or actually just about anything there are valuable take-aways.
And you can write that one down.
Here’s another one to write down…
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How simple is that?
Stay safe and happy today,
Tom
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