Attitude
"We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us -- how we can take it, what we do with it -- and that is what really counts in the end." -- Joseph Fort Newton
Entries by bronwynr
Why Use Humour in Your Presentations?
Why should I bother using humour in my presentations? Can't I just deliver my information and sit down?You sure can! That's what most people do. The problem is that most people are not effective presenters. They are nighty-nite, snooze-inducing, say-your-prayers, hit-the-sack, unlicensed hypnotists. They are ZZZZZs presenters. They might be experts in their field and […]
computers and creativity
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." - Pablo Picasso ………………………………………………………………………Resource for the Week: The Myth Movie Build the business and life of your dreams
What others think
"We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do." -- Ethel Barrett
Research used to correct school langage
University researchers have helped West Australian teachers and schoolstudents tweak their talking skills to better suit modern life. For six months, a team of Edith Cowan University (ECU) researchers, Associate Professor Rhonda Oliver, Dr Yvonne Haig and Dr Judith Rochecouste, assisted 50 teachers to investigate the language skills of about 2500 of their students. http://ecumediaqa.ids.ecu.edu.au/popups/mrPopup.asp?mrID=655
Kindness and understanding
"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again." Og Mandino
Great Time Management Advice!
From: Jim Rohn I often talk in my seminars about the importance of time and time management -- how rich people and poor people both have the same amount of time every day - 24 hours (which by the way, I find fascinating). This week, as we continue to celebrate the Anniversary of the Weekend […]
Public speaking FAQ
This is your cheat sheet to making public speaking easy and painless. The book distills the knowledge of three top-notch speakers into an eminently readable question and answer format. The FAQ Book On Public Speaking The authors, Eric Feng along with his colleagues Irene Ang and Kelvin Lim, has aimed to answer all of your […]
Presentation Nerves Part I There seems to be hundreds of theories and opinions about nerves in relation to making a presentation. Possibly one of the more famous sayings is that it is okay to have butterflies, as long as they are flying in the same formation. Other people say presentation nerves are built-in anti-complacency buttons, […]
Preparing for your presentation
There are so many ways a room and its set-up can affect your presentation. It is so important to make sure it works for you - your position, the audience's position, the equipment, the sound, the heating ... Graham Jones used this gret example in his tip : Check the room layout for presentations I […]
