Presentations tip #2 – Don’t do them!
In business, two common myths seem to be all-pervasive. One is generally acknowledged to be a myth, a convenient fiction which it seems to suit everybody to continue to propagate – rather like children not swearing in front of adults, who themselves don’t swear in front of children. Part of the reason for this is that people believe the second myth to be true.
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November 11, 2009 at 5:51 pm | Presentations, Uncategorized | No comment
Fail up
We know we’ll fail a lot; if you don’t fail you’re not doing anything new. We’d much rather fail with a bunch of sketches that we did (relatively) quickly and cheaply, than once we’ve modeled, rigged, shaded, animated, and lit the film. “Fail fast,” that’s the mantra.
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November 5, 2009 at 12:18 pm | Arts | No comment
Year One
Like many people – and especially many actors! – I resist being pigeonholed as a certain type of person. It reminds me of teachers who wanted to control me by defining me. “Has anyone ever told you, Alex, that you have a butterfly mind” was a comment made to me in my early 20s. It still rankles… “Alex is inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity” is a comment I can remember word for word from a teenage school report (though I didn’t know then that it was quote from Disraeli).
Read more...October 30, 2009 at 6:42 pm | Personal | No comment
Presentation tips #1 – Speed run
At a training session today for an international charity, and had a good time with five bright, sparky people, all of whom had significant strengths as presenters, and all of whom were willing to work with me to improve. As usual, the main problem was that they imagined they were far less effective than in fact they were, so much of my job was just about giving them positive feedback.
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October 29, 2009 at 6:19 pm | Presentations | No comment
Tom Salinsky
Hello and welcome to the Blog. On these pages I and my fellow trainers Alex and Deborah will share some of our experiences, insights, tips and tricks from our work with corporate clients of all kinds. Our portfolio is very diverse and over time we’ve each specialised in different areas.
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October 29, 2009 at 6:18 pm | Personal | No comment
