Facilitating Effective Audience Interaction With Questions May 5, 2011 by Jeff Hurt “We’re going to hold all questions until the end of the presentation. If we have time, we’ll answer them then.” It’s the generic statement many presenters make that audiences hate. Why Presenters Use This Statement Typically, the presenter’s goal is to cover as much content as possible. They have an agenda to cover. They fear … [Read more…] Filed Under: Speaker Coaching Tagged With: , attendee engagement, engagement, presentation best practices, presentation strategies
Planning Presentations With The Brain In Mind March 15, 2011 by Jeff Hurt Most association education, whether online or face-to-face, actually inhibits learning. In a typical presentation, attendees sit and listen while presenters stand and deliver. That is the sure sign of learning failure. Lectures And Bicycles I remember when I first learned to ride a bike. My parents had given me my first bike complete with training … [Read more…] Filed Under: Speaker Coaching Tagged With: , brain-friendly conferences, brain-friendly meetings, engagement, speaker
Confessions Of An Industry Speaker: What I Dislike About Your Conference March 7, 2011 by Jeff Hurt I feel like a professional conference attendee lately. I have attended and spoke at nine different conferences in the last 63 days. That’s one conference for every seven days. In reality, I spoke more than nine times because sometimes I had two or three presentations at each event. Seeing Your Speakers As Partners As a … [Read more…] Filed Under: Conference Education, Speaker Coaching Tagged With: , conferences, industry speaker, meeting planner, presenter, speaker
Giving Your Conference Content Handles February 25, 2011 by Jeff Hurt Presentations are a way to move information from my head into your actions. If I do it right, I give my ideas handles, so that you can run with what I’ve started and make it your own. ~ Chris Brogan Do you design your conference content so that it has handles? Have you ever even … [Read more…] Filed Under: Conference Education, Speaker Coaching Tagged With: , conferences, Education & Adult Learning, presentation strategies, speaker
Content Reduction: Making Your Presentation Thick To Stick February 23, 2011 by Jeff Hurt Do you want to have a rich finish to your presentation that fills the participants’ mind with an intense flavor that lingers? Like a fine wine reduction, you need to find a way to reduce excess information while intensifying and thickening the flavor of critical content. You need a content reduction. What Is Reduction? Reduction … [Read more…] Filed Under: Speaker Coaching Tagged With: , presentation best practices, presentation strategies
Information Dump Or Learning Facilitator? December 13, 2010 by Jeff Hurt It’s time to decide which one your conference is: information dump or learning facilitator. Is there a difference between information and education? Education and learning? A quick review of the definitions for each within the context of meetings helps provide clarity. Information Information is concepts, data, facts and research. Communicating information is normally show-n-tell lectures … [Read more…] Filed Under: Conference Education, Speaker Coaching Tagged With: , active learning, active participation, adult learning, conferences, content, delivery, Education & Adult Learning, engagement
Stuff Your Conference Speakers Need To Know: The TED Speaker Commandments November 16, 2010 by Jeff Hurt I love these ten TED speaker commandments. If you’ve not seen them before, make them part of your conference speaker packet! The TED Speaker Commandments Thou shalt not simply trot out thy usual shtick. Thou shalt dream a great dream, or show forth a wondrous new thing, or share something thou hast never shared … [Read more…] Filed Under: Speaker Coaching Tagged With: , adult learning, conferences, delivery, Education & Adult Learning, engagement, presentation best practices, presentation strategies, speaker
Sizzle And Substance: Creating Brain Friendly Presentations November 10, 2010 by Jeff Hurt Here is the PPT from my recent presentation for the Higher Education User Group (HEUG). The presentation focused on creating brain friendly presentations and increasing learning as well as retention. Sizzle & Substance: Creating Brain Friendly Presentations Filed Under: Speaker Coaching Tagged With: , active learning, active participation, association, brain-friendly conferences, brain-friendly meetings, Education & Adult Learning, engagement, learning
Raining On Your Presentation Parade: Facts Do Not Persuade October 20, 2010 by Jeff Hurt It felt like a scene from Groundhog Day. I was stuck in a time warp loop. Presenter after presenter after presenter started with the same phrase, “I have no financial conflict of interest to disclose.” Then each one launched into a diatribe of data, diagrams, facts and research. Dark, boring PowerPoint slides flashed before my … [Read more…] Filed Under: Speaker Coaching Tagged With: , conferences, content, delivery, Education & Adult Learning, presentation strategies, speaker, Speaker Emerging Practices
Nine Essentials To Keep Your Presentation From Becoming A Corpse October 19, 2010 by Jeff Hurt Presentations are the economy of most conferences and business today. Yet most presentations are boring. A majority of them are just uninteresting. They lack humanness, life, passion and emotional connections. Today, many conference participants feel trapped by a parade of monotonous, dreary, insipid presentations. It doesn’t take long to recognize a corpse. It takes even … [Read more…] Filed Under: Speaker Coaching Tagged With: , conferences, content, delivery, Education & Adult Learning, engagement, presentation strategies, professional development, speaker, Speaker Emerging Practices
