How to nail your presentation!

Roger Amir share 7 gems on how to present 

 

When you are given the opportunity to present in front of someone or a group of people you have the greatest chance of moving them to action, so here are some tips to help achieve that goal.

1, Prepare, prepare, prepare. Remember this is the biggest tip of all, no one wants to hear someone stumble through their presentation. 

 

2, Know your audience, taking the time to understand your audience mindset can completely change how you deliver your message.

 

3, Start with a great introduction, first impressions count be sure to kick off your presentation with a good start. 

 

4, A picture speaks a thousand words, your presentation could include a video, a slide show, graphs.

 

5, Have the right tools to present, be sure to have all the features you need if you were presenting off your laptop, or an interactive screen, having the most updated equipment could make all the difference.

 

6, Tell a story, if need be, sometimes it’s easier to retell an experience this will capture your audience better than memorizing. 

 

7, Allow time for questions. Questions are a good sign that your audience has been paying attention, but they also give the audience an opportunity to raise issues or clarify your explanations

 

Remember to know what to say is just the message but how you say it and deliver is the presentation and that could make all the difference.

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The BBG Forum in 90 Seconds

 

So, what do the wicked problems of climate change and racial bias have in common

So, what do the wicked problems of climate change and racial bias have in common - and why is it so important for you to advocate for Diversity Equity and Inclusion and Climate Action? 

We know both are regrettable - and solvable - yet somehow we seem to live as if both are normal . 

This is not ok!

Climate change is a classic boiling-frog problem. The old saying — which isn’t actually true but illustrates a useful concept nonetheless — tells us that a frog thrown into already-boiling water will jump out, while one placed into a pot full of water that slowly warms to its boiling point will never try to escape. As the climate warms, we will get used to a hotter, more dangerous, and less vibrant planet. Our complacency will make it difficult for us to act. The diminished world we live in will simply seem normal to us. We’ll boil without ever being fully aware of it.

We’re all aware that we live in a world with staggering levels of inequality , hunger, homelessness, untreated mental illness, and poverty - and  yet we have to live our everyday lives without doing anything about it! 

These problems have been there for a long time. They’re regrettable, but normal.

We accept that, in this world of material abundance, people will starve or go homeless. 

We train ourselves not to see the problems, and they don’t get solved.

It’s happenned throughout our history - and continues to happen 

Slaves in Egypt

The story of Purim

Pogroms

Holocast

Apartheid 

Aboriginal Annihalation 

American slavery

If we don’t take climate action - or make unconscious bias conscious - we will simply become used to a world full of refugees, terrible natural disasters, and impoverished ecosystems. 

We’ll be vaguely aware that things used to be better, but won’t want to think about that too hard.

Eventually, it will all seem normal and that is not ok! 

Most of the time we simply won’t see the damage that has been done to the planet and our societies. It will become difficult for many of us to sustain the level of alarm that solving climate change and unconscious bias will require.

This is why we need to take action and look at these wicked problems straight on the eye - especially when everybody around you is living as if this is normal 

Only by seeing clearly what is happening around us will we retain the ability to take action and solve these wicked problems -

 

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Property in 2022 - will be a two-speed market - find out what you need to know

A Property Forum

2022 will be a two-speed market, what you need to know

presented by Anna Porter, Principal of Suburbanite sought after by media for her expert commentary and has featured in Australian Property Investor Magazine, ABC National Radio, 2UE Radio, Sunrise, Channel Nine’s The Mornings Show, Studio 10, Sky News Real Estate, Fairfax Newspapers and many more media platforms.

28 October 2021 Thursday
8:00 am - 10:30 am AEDT | Zoom

Anna Porter will be sharing the following:

- The locations that will thrive and the ones that will not survive the downturn

- Which infrastructure projects will be the game changer

- Top three markets to invest in for 2022

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*IT’S NOT WHAT YOU GATHER BUT WHAT YOU SCATTER*

A beautiful story worth reading all the way down. 

*IT'S NOT WHAT YOU GATHER BUT WHAT YOU SCATTER*

I was at the corner grocery store buying some early potatoes... I noticed a small boy, delicate of bone and feature, ragged but clean, hungrily appraising a basket of freshly picked green peas.

 

I paid for my potatoes but was also drawn to the display of fresh green peas. I am a pushover for creamed peas and new potatoes.

Pondering the peas, I couldn't help overhearing the conversation between Mr. Miller (the store owner) and the ragged boy next to me.

'Hello Barry, how are you today?'

'H'lo, Mr. Miller. Fine, thank ya. Jus' admirin' them peas. They sure look good'.

'They are good, Barry. How's your Ma?' 

'Fine. Gittin' stronger alla' time.' 

'Good. Anything I can help you with?' 

'No, Sir. Jus' admirin' them peas.' 

'Would you like to take some home?' asked Mr. Miller. 

'No, Sir. Got nuthin' to pay for 'em with.'

 

'Well, what have you to trade me for some of those peas?'

 

'All I got's my prize marble here.'

'Is that right? Let me see it', said Miller.

'Here 'tis. She's a dandy.' 

'I can see that. Hmm mmm, only thing is this one is blue and I sort of go for red. Do you have a red one like this at home?' the store owner asked.

'Not zackley but almost.'

 

'Tell you what. Take this sack of peas home with you and next trip this way let me look at that red marble'. Mr. Miller told the boy.

 

'Sure will. Thanks Mr. Miller.'

 

Mrs. Miller, who had been standing nearby, came over to help me.

 

With a smile she said, 'There are two other boys like him in our community, all three are in very poor circumstances. Jim just loves to bargain with them for peas, apples, tomatoes, or whatever.

When they come back with their red marbles, and they always do, he decides he doesn't like red after all and he sends them home with a bag of produce for a green marble or an orange one, when they come on their next trip to the store.' 

I left the store smiling to myself, impressed with this man. A short time later I moved to Colorado , but I never forgot the story of this man, the boys, and their bartering for marbles. 

Several years went by, each more rapid than the previous one.  Just recently I had occasion to visit some old friends in that Idaho community and while I was there learned that Mr. Miller had died. They were having his visitation that evening and knowing my friends wanted to go, I agreed to accompany them. Upon arrival at the mortuary we fell into line to meet the relatives of the deceased and to offer whatever words of comfort we could.

Ahead of us in line were three young men. One was in an army uniform and the other two wore nice haircuts, dark suits and white shirts...all very professional looking. They approached Mrs. Miller, standing composed and smiling by her husband's casket. 

Each of the young men hugged her, kissed her on the cheek, spoke briefly with her and moved on to the casket. Her misty light blue eyes followed them as, one by one; each young man stopped briefly and placed his own warm hand over the cold pale hand in the casket. Each left the mortuary awkwardly, wiping his eyes. 

Our turn came to meet Mrs. Miller. I told her who I was and reminded her of the story from those many years ago and what she had told me about her husband's bartering for marbles. With her eyes glistening, she took my hand and led me to the casket.

 

'Those three young men who just left were the boys I told you about.

 

They just told me how they appreciated the things Jim 'traded' them. Now, at last, when Jim could not change his mind about colour or size....they came to pay their debt.'

'We've never had a great deal of the wealth of this world,' she confided, 'but right now, Jim would consider himself the richest man in Idaho ...' 

With loving gentleness she lifted the lifeless fingers of her deceased husband. Resting underneath were three exquisitely shined red marbles.

 

The Moral : 

We will not be remembered by our words, but by our kind deeds. Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath.

Today I wish you a day of ordinary miracles 

~  be A fresh pot of coffee you didn't make yourself...

- An unexpected phone call from an old friend.... Green stoplights on your way to work....

- The fastest line at the grocery store.... 

- A good sing-along song on the radio.. 

- Your keys found right where you left them.

- Sinking a 20 foot putt 

- a hug from one that you luv 

 

*IT'S NOT WHAT YOU GATHER, BUT WHAT YOU SCATTER THAT TELLS WHAT KIND OF LIFE YOU HAVE LIVED!*