This one-day training will equip you to create Insanely Great Slideshow Presentations. As a facilitator of workshops, I see more presentations than most – and many can be easily improved. After all, it’s all about communicating your message to the audience. This training is hands-on and uses your own real-life example – a slideshow that you have prepared already or one you have to give soon. We will help you unearth your core messages and prepare slides that support those messages. Delivered by Viv McWaters and Geoff Brown, experienced facilitators and presenters, you will learn about the effect on the …

With Christmas over and New Year fast approaching, it’s time to take some time to go ‘off’-line for a while. First, some reflections on 2008 and Blogging … When I scan through my posts, I am noticing 1 prevailing theme … Visual Thinking. Not just thinking on my part, but ‘creation’ of visual content on the web. Much of it relates to the the work I do as a facilitator and some of it to my hobbies. The lines between my ‘work’ and ‘hobbies’ are blurring as each year passes and that is a GREAT thing. I love what I …

Hat Tip to Garr Reynolds for this one … The Girl Effect website is all about a ‘movement’ on the rise. It starts with the premise that adolescent girls living in the developing world, if given the chance to participate in their own community, can make a difference … collectively (that’s many millions!) they can change the course of humanity. They have developed this wonderfully simple video to communicate their message. Best to watch it at their website here. Here’s the embedded version … Ok, so what? Here’s some questions that sprang to my mind … What if we used …

Ok, I got to the bottom of the illness … bacterial infection in the sinuses that needed a good dose of antibiotics. Now feeling human again and ‘just’ capable of posting this. Thanks to Kara (my Sister in law) for cheering me up with an “Elf-Me” video clip. My kids saw and made me do one of our own. So here’s a chance to introduce my family to you … Ingrid, Griffin, Lachlan, Hamish and me down at the barn! (Remember Ben Zander’s Rule #6 … don’t take yourself seriously) Send your own ElfYourself eCards

I’ll be taking a break (? how long) from this space whilst I recover from a mysterious illness. My first post when I return (hopefully after this weekend) will be about the virtues of feeling well. Geoff