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Attention-getting

Three levels of presentation openings – which should you use?

April 8, 2009

I get frustrated at presentation advice which says you have to do something clever or dramatic at the beginning of a presentation to grab your audience’s attention. That’s for three reasons: 1. You don’t have to grab the audience’s attention at the start. You have their attention at the start. The challenge is to keep [...]

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Why you don’t need to grab attention

May 18, 2008

As a relatively new blogger I’m spending a lot of time reading other people’s blogs. I came across this intriguing story from the Washington Post which was blogged by both Seth Godin and Laura Fitton when it was first published last year. A world-class violinist, Joshua Bell, was asked by the Washington Post to busk [...]

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