Comments on: Your Notes Add to Your Credibility http://www.onlinelegacy.org/2009/12/your-notes-add-to-your-credibility/ The magazine of the National Association for Interpretation Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:13:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bob Flasher http://www.onlinelegacy.org/2009/12/your-notes-add-to-your-credibility/comment-page-1/#comment-117 Bob Flasher Wed, 30 Dec 2009 05:01:15 +0000 http://onlinelegacy.org/?p=634#comment-117 This advice seems so logical, we have heard it before, and some of us have even fallen asleep during presentations that were read word for word...hopefully not the ones we were giving. I've found what Ethan says to be true. I blow it worst when I will be presenting to large audiences and perceive a lot to be at stake. This gets me anxious and has led to me reading my presentation word for word so I won't blow it. Resorting to reading my notes has always been a mistake, for while the message has been accurate, the presentation lacked the eye contact, energy, and voice inflection that would have made it truly effective. If I ever show up anywhere and start to read a presentation word for word, jump up, grab my notes, and set them on fire. This will improve the experience immensely for the audience and be much more valauble than whatever I thought was so important that I had to read it word for word. This advice seems so logical, we have heard it before, and some of us have even fallen asleep during presentations that were read word for word…hopefully not the ones we were giving.

I’ve found what Ethan says to be true. I blow it worst when I will be presenting to large audiences and perceive a lot to be at stake. This gets me anxious and has led to me reading my presentation word for word so I won’t blow it. Resorting to reading my notes has always been a mistake, for while the message has been accurate, the presentation lacked the eye contact, energy, and voice inflection that would have made it truly effective.

If I ever show up anywhere and start to read a presentation word for word, jump up, grab my notes, and set them on fire. This will improve the experience immensely for the audience and be much more valauble than whatever I thought was so important that I had to read it word for word.

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