Saturday 4 August 2007

Performing with Presence

Went on an astonishingly good course at Maynard Leigh about effective presentations. All their courses are run by actors and are about translating acting techniques to the 'world of business'.

It's a cliche to ask how much of a presentation do you actually remember, because the standard at work is so unbelievably bad everyone knows the answer is somewhere between bugger all and ooh! look at Jeff's hideous tie!

I spent most of the time presenting ideas for the new business and it all went very well.

It was like trying on new clothes and expecting people to just laugh.

But no one did.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Look forward to hearing your ideas on the new business and not laughing - unless of course you're going into stand-up comedy in which case laughter may be a good sign.

For more stuff around presence check out Eckhart Tolle - some of his audio books.

Rob said...

Will do - thanks Jon.