Archive for Archive for October, 2007
What’s Your Responsibility as a Presenter
I recently attended a brutal three-day continuing education seminar. It was brutal for me and many others because it included a great deal of calculating math, statistics, and probability. I don’t know about you, but triangulation, standard deviation, and the coefficient of determination have NOT been a part of my vocabulary in a [...]
The Good Samaritan
Yesterday my family and I took a trip to Wal-Mart after church to pick up some quick items. As I got in my Suburban, I noticed a piece of paper underneath my windshield wiper. When I got out to examine I found a free-hand note stating “Your passenger-side tire is very low”. [...]
Boo Birds
I’ve been a huge sports fan for as long as I can remember. The first football game I remember watching was in 1975 when Larry Csonka and the Miami Dolphins beat the Minnesota Vikings. Booing has always been a form of communication in sports. Some fans, like in Philadelphia, are known for [...]
Technology at its finest!
Speaking of my presentation at the Seattle Chamber of Commerce and my daughter…
It turned out to be fortunate that she was home. My PowerPoint presentation included a 4-minute video clip of a program I’d given a few months ago. The clip was going to be an example of a point I wanted to [...]
This is FUNNY
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of giving a presentation to the Seattle Chamber of Commerce. After the event, I was talking with several attendees as they were leaving, and one gentleman happened to catch my eye. I noticed that his name badge said “Weedin”. Not seeing too many people with MY last [...]
Compliments are easy to give
“Dad, you said something right today.” Now, if you’re a parent of teenagers like me, you don’t get to hear that very often. I was shocked when my daughter Kelli said this to me as I was driving her to school. Her car is in the shop so I’ve been playing taxi [...]
Simplicity…
Sometimes you find inspiration in the strangest places. While attending a fundraising luncheon for the local community college, I heard a wonderful speech from a young woman who was a student. It was unpolished yet beautifully and sincerely delivered to a room of about 400 people or more. Sometimes I wonder if [...]
Minding your manners
Last week, I was a participant in a full day seminar. There were about a dozen of us in attendance and the information and speaker were excellent. You can imagine my surprise when after re-convening from a 10-minute break, one of the participants stayed on his cell phone to conduct business at the [...]
So…what do you do?
I wasn’t expecting to be sitting here typing out a blog on my Alaska Air flight to Palm Springs. I fully intended to be listening to my new Patricia Fripp DVD called Preparing and Presenting Powerful Talks. For those of you not familiar with Patricia Fripp, she is one of the premiere speaking [...]
Change in the weather
I’m headed to Palm Springs today for a business trip and will be there several days. If you’re like me and live in the Seattle area, you’ve been shivering and cold, too. It seems that not only did we not have a long summer, fall is falling and we’re headed straight for winter. [...]
