Last week I received a comment about a presentation I made 20 months ago for the University of New Brunswick Associated Alumni Office. A friend had stumbled upon the video and I don’t recall sharing it, so I will do so now. In 1993, I completed a Bachelor of Business Administration degree, and then a Masters in Business Administration in 2013, both at UNB. I’m proud to be an alumni of UNB.
Ukraine
When I completed
my Bachelors degree, another student and I were invited to assist a professor
who was advising post-Soviet countries as they worked to transition to market
economies. That summer I spent two months in Ukraine, primarily in Kyiv, with a
weekend in Odessa, on the Black Sea. This was a tremendous experience. I look
forward to the development of an ever stronger and prosperous Ukraine, and a
sustainable and peaceful future for their resilient citizens.
Past
Presentations
As a
speaker, it’s helpful to watch past presentations. This presentation contains much
of my core material, although usually when I present, I work to add some new content
to see how well it lands with the audience, or to meet a specific need of an organization. Sometimes the pertinence of new
material becomes clearer when I present.
This feels odd to state, however I do find that when I work the speech
plan, the audience engagement and act of presenting sometimes reveals new
significance.
“Tell them
what you’ll tell them. Tell them, Then tell them what you told them”
As I scanned
through the video, I was pleased that I mentioned the business structure of “tell them what you’ll tell them, tell them, then tell them what you told them.” This is a bit of a cliché, but the structure
is helpful for audiences. This structure asserts a brief table of contents, followed
by core material, and then a brief recap. In this presentation, I did use that structure.
This structure helps because audiences are distracted. This approach increases
the odds of more audience members receiving your message.
Video
If you care
to watch the video, please visit here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XObo__ETXI
If you’d like to support the UNB Alumni association with me,
please visit https://www.unb.ca/alumni/
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