How to Run an Effective and Productive Meeting
This week on the Public Speaker I talk about how to plan and deliver effective and productive business meetings. Here’s a quick summary, but you can listen to the episode here. (It’s less than 10 minutes.)
Know and state the purpose of your meeting. Meetings are good for coming to resolution.
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This week on the Public Speaker I talk about how to plan and deliver effective and productive business meetings. Here’s a quick summary of the episode, but you can listen to the episode here. (It’s less than 10 minutes time.)
Know and state the purpose of your meeting. Meetings are good for coming to resolution. If you are sharing information perhaps another approach is better.
This month both the AMA and Oprah jumped onto the Twitter bandwagon. I’m not sure which is more surprising to me.
If you still yet don’t know what Twitter is click this link to find out the basics of Twitter.
“Impact is a function of knowledge (K), practice (P), and talent (T) — in decreasing order of importance.” – MIT Computer Science Professor Patrick Henry Winston
Every January, during MIT’s Independent Activities Period, Computer Science Professor Patrick Henry Winston a lecture titled: How to Speak. In 1997 Harvard made a recording of the presentation.
Here’s a link to a video from Scott Morgan, Premier Public Speaking.
While I don’t agree with everything he says, I do think hearing another perspective about scientific presentation is worthwhile.
Here’s how we all should be when we perform on stage!
My favorite part is when she is being interviewed before the performance and she says with strong confidence “I’m going to MAKE that audience ROCK!!”
She sure did! Wow.
I watched this newly released video from TED today. I enjoyed the talk. It was interesting to see how she was able to communicate science in a way that was accessible to a broader audience. One of the reasons she was successful was because she used lots of analogies that the audience already understood. And in fact, she chose interesting analogies that often even got a laugh from the audience.
