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Learn, Understand, Embrace, Discover at April’s Monthly Program
By Gerry Munzing | April 13, 2010
How do you feel about your presentation skills? What do you do to get your message across and make it memorable?
On 4/29 – Thu, Jim Endicott from Distinction Communication, Inc., will present Winning the Hearts and Minds of Busy People: The Art of Persuasion, Influence and Personal Impact at ASTD Cascadia Monthly Program.
Jim sums it up well when he says that there’s a difference between simply “giving” a presentation and knowing what it takes for our audiences to actually “get them”.
In December 2009, Jim’s company conducted its Annual Presentation Impact Survey and here is a taste of the results. Looking them over, I can definitely relate to the following experience,
Dozens of times every year I ask groups about their greatest presentation successes. More times than I can tell you I’m told about a seemingly horrible situation when a certain technology left the presenter(s) high and dry and they simply turned everything off and had a conversation with the customer, investor or partner. No projector… no screen or PowerPoint. Just conversation. And the funniest part? They get the opportunity. The “best meeting they ever had” so many have told us.
As Jim points out a few lines later, this reinforces an important truth, “First and foremost, the art of presenting is not a technical skill, it’s all about some very important relational ones.”
When you sign up for Distinction’s eNewsletter, you can receive a copy of the entire survey results. It came out in the March 2010 issue.
If you haven’t already signed up to attend the program, then I hope to have sparked your interest in doing so.
I look forward to seeing you there!
p.s. If you’re wondering about all those verbs in the title, they come from the Monthly Program’s Outcomes.
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