Presentation Skills: Lessons from the Open Water
How is giving a presentation like swimming in
the open water?
Dive in and find out!
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New Year's Greetings!
Welcome to Guila Muir's Training Tips
Resource, the
newsletter for trainers, facilitators, and
presenters.
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Guila Muir Wins Accolades
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Guila?s article, All Presenting is Persuasive,
was
highlighted as one of five ?Year?s Best? in the
December 2006 Link & Learn e-newsletter from Linkage
Incorporated.
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Presenters: Why is Eye Contact Important?
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Achim Nowak, a famous presentation skills coach, has
this to say:
?Eye contact forces me to get real.
"It jolts
me out
of the rut of the canned speech, because the minute
I make eye contact, I have to let in
what the other person is sending. Interest. Enthusiasm.
Boredom. Confusion. His or her reaction suddenly
informs, in ways I won?t always control, the next
thing I say and the way I say it.
"Eye
contact turns
every presentation into a dynamic exchange: New.
Fresh. Alive.? (Power Speaking, 2004)
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Create a HOOK and Win a Prize!
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Send Guila your idea for using the following
activity. The winner will receive a fabulous prize
(a grain of salt here, please) and get
his or her name in the next newsletter!
Against the Grain
Hold up a piece of newspaper. Tear it slowly from
top to bottom. Then tear it slowly side to side.
One tear should be clean and smooth, and the other
very jagged and uneven. Why is it easy to tear the
paper one way but not the other?
(From Wizbangers:101 Quick,
Action-Based Learning
Activities for Speakers, Trainers, and Teachers, by
Deb Calderon and Ken Bellemare, 2006)
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Design Training In-House
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Do you have a training need that "off the shelf"
curricula just can't fill? Are you left cold by
trainers who know nothing of your organization's
unique needs?
Guila Muir's rapid training design process, called
"Keep In-House Training Excellent" (KITE) has
enabled many diverse businesses to build training
sessions using the expertise they already have.
"Using KITE, we developed seven training sessions
incredibly fast, and much more cheaply, than we
could have any other way!"
Barbara Courtney, Artist Trust
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Just for Fun
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Please answer each question OUT LOUD. The answers
are at the bottom.
1. Say "roast" five times:
roast
roast
roast
roast
roast
What do you put in a toaster?
2. Say "silk" five times.
silk
silk
silk
silk
silk
Now spell "silk".
What do
cows drink?
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We Look Forward to Hearing From You
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Guila and company want to thank all of you Readers
for your comments. See you again in March, 2007.
Answers to ?Just for Fun:?
1. Bread!
2. Cows drink water.
Have fun using these questions with YOUR groups!
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