From the Web Site of the same name, a campaign to let people with paralysis define themselves and tell the world:
All too often people try to define someone living with a spinal cord injury by the wheelchair -- rather than by their accomplishments, sense of humor, dreams for the future... the full picture of who they are as human beings.
The Presentation Planning Pyramid (or Pyramid of Apprehension) is a tool for planning presentations that don’t suck. A presentation that doesn’t suck is simple to describe and hard to pull off.
The main aim of a presentation is to help others talk to their friends and colleagues.
The pyramid works a bit like a game.
The object of the game is for your ideas to climb the pyramid. You can play it on your own but it works best when played with a team.
Clear and convincing post arguing for top-down planning of presentations, Shared on Twitter by @OliviaMitchell.
Fellow speakers, To make sure you end strongly and don't lose your audience at the end of your speech, memorize your closing lines for your speech. Then, when the end of the speech comes, give those closing lines powerfully and excitingly to your audience. At the end, Tim
A valuable resource: a blog made up of short speaking tips. Seems like a good way to focus on speaking skills between engagements. Discovered via the list of public speaking blogs at Six Minutes.
From William Burroughs, a Thanksgiving prayer from the other side. Puts me in mind of Mark Twain's War Prayer.
What exactly is consciousness? It exists when we live in attunement with what we at Quantum Leaders call the Context field of energy.This is the field of meaning and purpose, the underlying context for all that we do. For some, this field remains unconscious and therefore unavailable to them.Yet this field is rich in information that when accessed, can guide and direct any person and any organization to the most effective way to achieve their goals...
And what guides our service to others? It is the second pillar of conscious capitalism, meaning and purpose. At Quantum Leaders, we call this the Soulful Purpose of the organization; a purpose so core it touches the very soul of the organization and is in fact the very reason for its existence.Like the acorn that recognizes its purpose is to ultimately become an oak tree, each individual and each living organization has a soulful purpose that will guide and direct its success.
The third pillar of conscious capitalism is leadership. To the degree that the leadership for an organization has matured and developed along the three dimensions of functional skills, interpersonal skills and their own intrapersonal skills is the degree the leader will be able to create a consciously living organization.Each of these domains of skills translates to the ability of the leader to manage the organization, to create collaborative team environments and inspire and motivate the workforce to become fully committed and engaged to the fulfillment of the organizations’ Soulful Purpose.
At Fast Company, a thoughtful post on Consciousness in Leadership. Sounds like only 100 people attended. Still, I've got to wonder where these people were when I was working and how I can use these principles in non-business society.