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Why present your thoughts?

by Rick Baker
On Nov 1, 2016

Many years ago, Peter Urs Bender presented wonderful, simple advice:

There are only 4 reasons you should give presentations -

  • to inform
  • to entertain
  • to touch the emotions
  • to move to action

You can and should try to accomplish more than one of these 4 things when you give presentations...and accomplishing all 4 is ideal.

I have found this simple advice to be very helpful.

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Many, many years ago one of my bosses gave me the following piece of advice...

There's only 2 reasons to make a speech -

  1. You love making speeches
  2. Your boss tells you to make a speech.
While that can come across somewhere between humorous and annoying, it too is a good piece of advice. I have had the pleasure and displeasure of giving speeches under both these reasons.

No question, I performed far better under reason #1. 

No question, the catastrophes I experienced under reason #2 enabled some wonderful learning experiences and now-humorous stories...I mean - now-humorous because hindsight is 20/20 and time has healed all wounds.

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