On the morning of Day 2 in the two-day Presentations Alive!™ training, Anna, one among the cohort of management trainees, said something simple, funny, and deeply revealing:
“I have a brain.”
It was not a throwaway comment. It was Anna’s way of describing a shift that had happened overnight.
“Before this training,” she confessed “I struggled to organise my thoughts logically.” She knew her content. She had ideas. She had something useful to say. But when it came time to present, those ideas often came out scattered, uneven, or difficult for others to follow. “I am just not good at this,” is what she often told herself.
By the end of Day 1, after only a few hours of working on the first module, she had changed her opinion about how she thought about herself. “Structuring the content in the way we were taught, helped me to pull my thoughts together cohesively. My POV (Point of View) now is: I have a brain,” Anna unashamedly declared to the class which immediately erupted into thunderous applause.
Through the tools and practice in Presentations Alive!™, she began to see that structure was not about sounding rigid or scripted. It was about helping her own thinking become clearer, so that her audience could follow her more easily.
Regina Morris
Senior Businesss Presentations Specialist