This past December my boss asked me to work to be seen more as an expert in the industrial cleaning committee in terms of adult learning.
Among many other things, boards, abstracts, articles, etc, etc, . . . I'm doing a lot of presentations. Alot a lot of presentations. I've done three in the past month. The one in the picture above is a presentation I was providing on the importance of using adult learning techniques and innovative learning tools to make training more effective.
It was very well received. Most of my presentations go well. I think this is a combination of things. I've taken a slew of speaking courses through the years, I've even helped develop one. I have given many many presentations over the years so I get better and better each time. Lately, they've become quite fun.
The other reason I think they're well-received is that the content is new and exciting for most of the audience. No one ever talks about innovative techniques with these folks. I think it's interesting to hear something new. You add in the fact that we are working with VR and Meta is starting to dabble in VR and it's a recipe for an interesting presentation.
One of my presentations to our management was unique if only because I was presenting with all of the other managers. Afterward one of the managers mentioned that he wasn't happy having followed me. My presentation had image after image after image and videos and videos etc. His was all bullets, words, entire paragraphs of bullets. That was the standard for the other managers. I just can't do that. I have to be more freeform.
So, what's the problem with that? My boss wanted me to send him my presentations so he could read them and learn from them.
No much to read or learn is there. I think the next presentation I'll have someone video record it and send that to the boss.
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