Ach ach

I must have been in a particularly uncharitable mood that day…

Random notes genomen tijdens een seminar een tijd geleden, onder de hoofding “lessons I learned today”:

  • Have your presentation reviewed by a native speaker.
  • Rehearse, and more importantly, time your presentation to ensure a balance between marketing blurb and information.
  • Don’t tell people who arrive half an hour late “you haven’t missed anything yet” 
  • Don’t assume everyone knows PMBOK means the Project Management Body of Knowledge.
  • Don’t assume every English speaker knows who “Suske & Wiske” are.
  • Do not, under any circumstances, ever read off the information you’ve put on your slides.
  • If you’re more comfortable speaking French than English, don’t overcompensate by adding “h” to every word starting with a vowel.
  • Do not treat your audience as if this were 1997—we all know why websites are important, and why we need them.
  • I never meta data I didn’t like.
  • Don’t forget to rehearse the entire presentation, all the way to the end.
  • Try to vary your speech pattern & build climaxes and pauses in your story.
  • It is halways a good Heidi not to hunderestimate a projecte.
  • You know what? If you’re more comfortable speaking French than English, by all means do.
  • Don’t overstay your welcome.
  • Do not call your own material “a lot of marketing stuff”.
  • Don’t repeat time after time you’re going to be short, or brief, or that you’re going to give a “sneak preview”, or that you’ve only got 15 minutes.
  • Remove all slides you’re not going to use in a given presentation.

Een slechte mens, ik.

Uitleggen en peetjes tekenen, jaja.

Maar doén, ha!

Geschreven al luisteren naar: Frank Zappa – 71 13-Oct, Toronto, d2 – 10 Billy The Mountain (incl. The Ballad Of Bilbo Baggins)

2 reacties op “Ach ach”

  1. Tiens, Michel, zowel jij als Wannes zitten zéér dicht bij mijn muzikale ( i e diverse) smaak.En – graag toegegeven – er zijn voor mij een aantal rel. onbeluisterden bij.

    By the way, wat F. Zappa betreft: er is het onnavolgbare West- Vlaamse blog KillUglyRadio.Van een zéér moedige en invezntieve jongeman uit … Wervik.

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