Publicly Speaking

I just delivered a session on designing visual slides for presentations.

Part of my job is to undo some of the participants' previous learning. People learn some funny things. I've heard it all:

- never start a sentence with a preposition
- use lots of animation to gain attention
- pretend your audience is naked

So, at the end of my session, one participant - a very senior manager - told us what she'd learned in regard to slide presentations:

I make it a rule to read everything Seth Godin writes and a lot of what he recommends. Here's a new ebook he's compiled.

Lots of great ideas for speeches. Enjoy.

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We were privileged to have Lance Miller stop by Hong Kong this past Monday. On his way back from a convention in Shenzhen, Lance delivered a workshop entitled 'Find your Voice' to over 100 Toastmasters at Polytechnic University.

One point struck me. Where other speakers talk about 'passion', Lance talks about 'Life Force'. He describes it in this way: