If we wanted to create an education environment that is directly opposed to what the brain is good at doing, we would design something like today's conference lectures. Listening to a 45-, 60- or 90-minute lecture floods the working memory with information. We can't store everything we hear in our memory. The Brain As A Gambling Winner So, how can the brain's memory know what we'll need to remember later? If the brain gambled, it would lay its bets like this: if you think about something … [Read more...]
Myths, Facts, Challenges And Tips With Learning From Lectures
Myth: Our minds are like sponges that just soak up information which creates learning. Many of us grew up believing that myth. We believed that we could sit in a lecture and the speaker's information would magically transfer to our brains. We thought we could automatically recall everything the teacher said. Without studying, our test scores proved differently. We could not recall at will what the teacher said. Fact: Learning is a complex process that requires more than listening. The … [Read more...]
Tuning Into Your Conference Participants So They Do Not Tune Out
In the right hands and delivered on key, the spoken word can be a powerful force. It can move mental mountains. Part emotional Red Seas. Awaken sleepy souls. Change stubborn minds. Persuasion: A Powerful Tool To Create Change Conferences are ultimately about persuading audiences to change. It's about transforming conference attendees into powerful participants that adopt attitudes, ideas and take action. It's about moving audiences from being uninformed to informed. From unaware to interested. … [Read more...]
Stuff Your Conference Speakers Need To Know: The TED Speaker Commandments
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 before. Thou shalt reveal thy curiosity and thy passion. Thou shalt tell a story. Thou shalt freely comment on the utterances of other speakers for the sake of … [Read more...]
Raining On Your Presentation Parade: Facts Do Not Persuade
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 eyes. Some were unreadable. Most were forgettable. Every six minutes, up to fifteen times per ninety-minutes, a new presenter stepped up to the podium and started a … [Read more...]
Nine Essentials To Keep Your Presentation From Becoming A Corpse
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 less time to recognize a conference that is a morgue of corpse presentations. Presentation Failures In Three Critical … [Read more...]
Five Deadly Presentation Killers
Quick, name the last presentation that you attended. Now, name two things you learned from that presentation. Can you do it? If you can't recall at least one or two things from that presentation, was it worth your time and investment? Now try this. Name the last speaker or presentation that you heard that totally wowed you and you walked away with invaluable information and practical steps. What made that presentation so good that you remember it? Five Ways To Kill Your Presentation Dead In … [Read more...]
Stomaching Long Conference Lectures Is Out! Active Attendee Participation is In!
14 Presentation Techniques That Encourage Maximum Learning, Participation And Memory Retention Today, many conference attendees will no longer tolerate the same old lectures, the conference committee's poorly-planned-everything-for-everyone-panel or sessions that have no real meaning to their work. Younger generations will not endure classes that could have been learned at their desks in 30 minutes and other wasteful conference presentations that older generations have stomached in the name … [Read more...]
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