Hey Reader,

In this week's Simply Learning:

• Transform your audience for better presentations
• Get an email address that gets destroyed in 10 minutes
• Why you need to ensure your tutorials run to time

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PRESENTATIONS

The worst presentations I see are where the presenter's mindset is: I'm x and I know a lot about y.

The presenter then proceeds to tell the audience everything they think the audience needs to know about y.

Eventually, the presentations ends.

The problem with this type of presentation is that it's designed around the presenter, and not around the audience.

If there's one thing you should do before you start prepping the content itself, it's this:

Work out the audience transformation.

To be able to transform the audience, you need to know them and understand them.

• Who are they?
• What are their pain points?
• What do they already know?

Then work out the transformation.

Where will they be at the start of your presentation? Where will they be at the end?

My audience transformation for a recent talk to a group of doctors was:

Before: caught up in the daily grind of work, and not having time to think about whether or not they enjoy their jobs.

After: recognising the need to, and being able to step back and work out what makes them truly enjoy the job they do.

It seems simple, but if you establish the audience transformation, then the rest of the presentation can take shape from there.

Rather than having a presentation for the presenter, it becomes a presentation for the audience.

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TECH

We sign up to so many websites every week by supplying our email address.

Some website we'll visit again, but some are just a quick visit to purchase a product or signup for one thing. You might not want the company to hold your real email address.

This is where you can use 10 Minute Mail.

It creates an email address that only lasts for 10 mins.

It's really straightforward to use:

1. Copy the email address
2. Watch the 10 minutes count down
3. Extend the time if needed
4. Once the clock gets to 0, the email address will be gone

No more inbox spam.*

•outcome of no more spam is not guaranteed

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EDUCATION

As a learner, when I'm in a small group tutorial and it that runs over time, I completely switch off.

When everyone knows the expected end time of the session, the tutors need to make sure that time schedule is met.

Running over time demonstrates:

• Poor planning
• Poor monitoring of the session
• Lack of respect for the learners' time

The best way I've found to ensure we stick to time when running tutorials is:

1. To have a broad plan for session, with timings specifically written in to your plan.
2. To have one person on the faculty allocated to keeping time.

If you are the sole faculty member, then set some alarms or alerts to keep you on top of it.

There's no point realising 5 minutes before the end that you're running late. That leaves no time to correct your error.

Instead, having build in time blocks means that you can check and review as you go.

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See you next week.

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