#3 is my all time least favorite part of Power Point presentations.
So now, because I'm drawn just a bit sarcastically, I usually make sure that my second *informational* slide contains way too much text, most of it erratta that can be found elsewhere.
And then I say "I'll just go ahead an assume that everyone is literate and not read this to you. This is all information that can be found at blahblah."
I mean it as my own gentle reminder to everyone else in the room.
At least the power point presentations (yes, there were three) were mostly screen shots with the text being "Click here and then click here and open this window and accept the defaults.)
Reading power point slides is a sign of too little rehearsal.
I guess we did our sessions correctly. Also I should mention the classes we just ran Tue - Wed - this morning were Train the Trainer. It is up to each business group that sent people to customize/focus on what is important to their teams (such as more/less hands on, more attention to certain aspects, which modules to cover, etc
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Some trainings can be very well done. Our yearly mandatory security briefings are quite entertaining. The security department is full of geeks and they have fun with it and that makes a dry topic interesting. I look forward to these
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The worst training I have ever had the misfortune of sitting through was a mandatory training that I got paid for, took place in the evenings after I'd worked a full day and didn't want to deal with computers, got out at an ungodly late hour, and the trainer shoved his right-wing ideology into every sentence, even though Windows 2000 had nothing to do politics. I had to tell him that not every Arab was a terrorist. In class.
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So now, because I'm drawn just a bit sarcastically, I usually make sure that my second *informational* slide contains way too much text, most of it erratta that can be found elsewhere.
And then I say "I'll just go ahead an assume that everyone is literate and not read this to you. This is all information that can be found at blahblah."
I mean it as my own gentle reminder to everyone else in the room.
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Reading power point slides is a sign of too little rehearsal.
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The worst training I have ever had the misfortune of sitting through was a mandatory training that I got paid for, took place in the evenings after I'd worked a full day and didn't want to deal with computers, got out at an ungodly late hour, and the trainer shoved his right-wing ideology into every sentence, even though Windows 2000 had nothing to do politics. I had to tell him that not every Arab was a terrorist. In class.
Ugh.
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