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Get Your Audiences Involved and Get More Business

with Karen Lawson, Ph.D., CSP
Karen LawsonToday’s audiences are different. Conditioned by their experiences in school and corporate training programs, they expect a presentation to be a learning experience, and they expect learning experiences to be active. Contemporary audiences are greatly influenced by computer games and simulations as well as videos and television. With a multitude of options at their fingertips, people are less tolerant of limited programming options. They want to be wowed by both quality content and quality entertainment, and it’s incumbent on us as speakers to deliver.

Your goal is to connect with your audience, and one of the most effective ways to do this is to get them involved. Audience involvement requires a different approach. Sometimes speakers prefer to simply stand before an audience and deliver their message. The ability to actively involve the audience requires a different skill set that many speakers have not as yet mastered. They may want to, but don’t know how.

Karen Lawson, Ph.D., CSP will share her practical, how-to approach to using interactive methods to increase audience impact and ensure speaker success whether an individual is delivering a keynote speech, making a sales presentation, or conducting a seminar or training session.

You will learn to:

  • Identify trends, influences, and considerations that shape demand for interactive speaking
  • Use specific interactive techniques to increase audience participation
  • Adapt interactive techniques to “dry” topics
  • Adapt existing material to a more interactive style
  • Identify sources for interactive techniques

Register (the date of the seminar is Tuesday, June 9) or order the CD or MP3 recording. Note: people who register for the teleseminar will get the MP3 recording of the session for free.

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Graphic Novels Take Center Stage at Book Expo America


Graphic novel publishers were an encouraging presence at Book Expo America (BEA), with Marvel Comics hosting a party in honor of their 70th anniversary; publishers such as Image, IDW and Dark Horse announcing exciting new projects; and key librarians releasing a list of hot graphic novels to check out this fall. (full story)

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Today’s Must-Read – Wilbur Smith’s latest

Assegai

by Wilbur Smith

The highly popular historical novelist returns with another guaranteed best-seller. In the early 1900s, Second Lieutenant Leon Courtney decides to hang up his military career after a near-fatal mission in British East Africa (and a subsequent court-martial proceeding instigated by a vindictive superior office). He takes up big-game hunting, but that's only his cover: in reality, he is working as a spy, gathering intelligence for his uncle Penrod Ballantyne. Leon's target is Count Otto Von Meerbach, a German weapons manufacturer (the novel is set only a handful of years before World War I), but Leon doesn't count on falling in love with the target's seductive mistress, Eva. Can Leon foil Von Meerbach's plot to foment an African rebellion and, at the same time, protect the beautiful Eva? There is a reason Smith is a hugely popular writer of historical novels: his remarkable talent for re-creating historical periods and crafting characters we care about is virtually unmatched in the genre. Smith's novels of the Courtney and Ballantyne families (in 2005, he brought the two sagas together in The Triumph of the Sun) have been entertaining readers for nearly five decades, and if this novel is any indication, he is showing no signs of slowing down. (David Pitt Booklist )

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"I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else."

-- Dolly Parton

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Public Speaking – The Power of Words

Words hurt, heal, motivate, and aggravate. They are powerful. They control emotions and can even control a person physically.     more ...

Organize bedroom chaos

Organize Bedroom mess and confusion and make it an enjoyable place to be! Organizing the bedroom can be difficult to achieve because it is probably one of the most lived in rooms, especially by children. Finding solutions to help keep kids rooms and your own room clean are important but they must be solutions that are easy for that person to follow. Here are the A – Z of ideas to get you started….

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"If you believe in unlimited quality and act in all your business dealings with total integrity, the rest will take care of itself."

Frank Perdue

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Take your life back - Take control

Feeling scattered, stuck, procrastinating? Do you want more time and a sense of direction and accomplishment? Peace of mind and order? Take your life back! Get and stay focused, organized and on track with the following 3 online workbooks. Each workbook includes 30 days of email support. Take each program at your convenience. SAVE by buying the package of 3. PLUS receive one full year of weekly email support to keep your goals on track. PLUS receive your LIFE MAP and 75 Intuitive Resource Lists for free.

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Thought for the Day

"If you believe in unlimited quality and act in all your business dealings with total integrity, the rest will take care of itself."

Frank Perdue

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How parents can keep kids’ reading on track over summer

BOGGLE ... AND TV?

Story time isn't the only way to nurture young readers over the summer.

"Play board games," says Kelli Kilmartin, a former English teacher who is the Minnesota district manager of Sylvan Learning, a tutoring service. "Every school expert out there will tell you games like Scrabble, Boggle and Apples to Apples, anything that involves words, is going to help their vocabulary, which will increase their reading fluency."

To build reading comprehension and work on writing — often a lost art in the summer — Kilmartin recommends that parents could even use television to their advantage.

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Visual Learning: Using Images to Focus Attention, Evoke Emotions, and Enrich Learning


Say it with words and you're lucky if they hear it or bother to read it. Tell your story with imagery, and it grabs attention, evokes emotion, and is more instantly processed. Sixty thousand times faster, say some researchers. At Hong Kong International School (HKIS), we have concerns quite similar to those of teachers in the U.S.: We want to engage student interest, we want to efficiently scaffold for students to construct meaning, and we want to motivate and empower them to communicate. Like all educators, we have students who deserve to learn 21st-century media skills and literacy to communicate in ways that are relevant in a new century. Article continues