January 2008 - Posts
Today I've completed my 2 days learning course in AIM regarding professional presentation.
Can't tell that it was really useful for me. Maybe because I've already delivered 2 presentations and my expectations from learning "professional" stuff are overrated a bit.
What I expected to see on this course are:
- different type of your behaviour depending on audience number - to deliver presentation to 10 and 1000 people;
- the correct behaviour when you don't know the answer on question from audience;
- analysing the most common mistakes;
- the tricks which differs the best ever presenter from moderate one
Unfortunately, I hardly get answer to one of these questions. All what this course gives your is about HOW to prepare presentation - the steps of preparations. But there are nothing about reading it.
I'd recommend this AIM course for those who makes the first steps in *creating" presentation, not delivering it.
So, I suppose there must be another course "how to deliver presentation PROFESSIONALY" :)
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them" (c) Albert Einstein
Discussing the recent post about "Teddy Bear factor" with my mate Basil, I realized that Teddy Bear factor reflects the Einstein idea.
We need the "paradigm shift" to solve our problem and "paradigm shift" applied when we try explain our code verbally to whoever stay next to us. At that moment we are on next level when we created the problem
So that's how "Teddy Bear" factor works
Try to remember how much time u've met the case when your are calling your colleague to look on issue you can't solve, and asap the colleague comes it's solving without his assistance :) Just because he had stayed next to, you found the solution
I bet each of us meets this scenario one-two times per month. This is standard situation and this is absolutely normal. People, by nature, can easily miss their errors, and that's why the team inspections are essentials, but this is another story
I decided to write this post when in one day in our team each of us asked another assistance and the problem was solved when u just stayed in 1 meter from person :)
This is usually known as "Teddy bear factor", the factor when you need to sit your favourite teddy toy near, and everything will be okey-dokey :)
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