Publicly Speaking

Came across a couple of interesting videos today.

Interesting from my perspective for three reasons:

- such a diverse group with members from so many different countries
- clearly, the meetings differ from Asian meetings, yet are so similar too
- whilst the formats of the meetings vary, the benefits remain constant.

Enjoy:

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:

Garr Reynolds of Presentation Zen suggests planning a presentation away from the computer. He calls this 'Going analog'.

It makes a lot of sense. When presenters prepare their content in Powerpoint/Keynote, their content becomes just a series of slides.

Sitting down with a pen and paper, you can focus on the bigger picture and identify your core message.

I tried it. I tried mind-mapping which I've never been very good at. Here's what I came up with: