![]() Are you doing it right? You can always second-guess yourself, of course, but keeping those three ideas top of mind is going to be helpful. But using this as a core guiding principle could be helpful - stop for a second and think about your audience, your intent, and your message. You get rushed and do things and that’s fine that’s life. Of course, you can’t think about it every time that’s beyond the scope of the human brain, in all honesty. If you could do that with everything you put out to the world - papers, e-mails, tweets, Facebook updates, PowerPoints, etc. You need to think about who it’s going to, how you want it perceived, and what you’re going to say. I may have mixed up the latter three somewhat - because I’m not a very bright person - but the basic idea is there. (depending on how you like to think about acronyms), is pretty simple: Schramm is an organizational behavior professor at Stanford he writes and speaks a lot about communicating to audiences, such as this post on HBR.ĪIM, or A.I.M. Everyone, as such, should get better at presentations - and everyone should realize they need to be less about “telling” and more about “listening.” I personally think presentation skills/classes should be mandatory from about the fourth grade through Year 5 of a PhD program, but I mean, what I believe is neither here nor there in the whole kit and kaboodle of things.īut if you want to be better at presentations and overall communicating, there’s a simple three-letter acronym you can follow: AIM. ![]() If you really distill work - or, frankly, your entire life - down to a couple of core tenets, I would say one you might arrive at is “The ability to develop ideas and present them to others.” That’s the core of a lot of what you do at work, and it’s also the essence of picking a place to eat dinner or something rather micro-level like that.
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