Effective presentations

Today's a crazy day. It seems like everything that I've been working on is finally taking off, which is good. However, it seems like I'm in meetings all the time.

today's thought starts with a webinar I participated in on succession planning sponsored by an organization called Saba. Being incredibly busy, I was hoping to hear some very practical tips, with information I could use immediately. Unfortunately like most presentations I've seen recently, the presentation focused on why succession planning is needed, with little information on how to accomplish this.

Presenters need to ask themselves one question: What can participants use following the presentation?

This goes back to my definition of knowledge being "usable information." In terms of a presentation, can people take action based on what they hear? The background is nice, but the focus should be on usable information. In applying the 80:20 rule, 80% should focus on usable information.

Enough said for today.