Presentation Makeover
A few weeks back, I got a new and challenging assignement that will probably need some tough presentations to a few top managers. This is never easy to do so I googled around a little bit for inspiration and found some really interesting stuff
At first I got hooked on Presentation Zen, a blog devoted to improve our presentation skills written by Garr Reynolds, a former Apple guy who is now teaching in Japan. He has a lot –I mean A LOT– of cool stuff there and that’s how I also got to Cliff Atkinson’s Beyond Bullets blog, a site devoted to his book Beyond Bullet Points. Cliff maintains a quite usefull discussion board there that got me to really try to kill that template driven style we all learned from Microsoft.
This is really getting very interesting, and I’m trying to write my first story with a much more visual set of slides. I’ll let you know when I’m done with it…
The Servant
On my last trip to Argentina, I had the opportunity to finally read a little book I got to my birhtday: The Servant by James C. Hunter.
Really nice story about a leader that at his career summit went to a leadership retreat (yes, like I did) at a remote Benedictine monastery near Lake Michigan. There he met Leonard Hoffmann, a former -very successfull- businessman who left everthing to become a monk.
Really interesting reading, pick it up if you have a chance.
Moving Organizations
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Leave a Comment Last week I was on a company sponsored course in the Resort de Campo y Polo in Argentina where we had the opportunity to think about ourselfs while we got some usefull insights from the guys of Axialent. Axialent was founded by Fred Kofman and Peter Senge is one of it’s academic advisors. The guy who gave the course was Vito Sgobba, an amaizing character…
We hat a lot of fun, and as I mentioned, we had the time to think about many things, related to relationships, leadership and feedback. Did I mention 360ยบ feedback? That’s alway an interesting topic and you get insights you never imagined!
It was a very nice experience!
Finally I got my own blog
I finally started my own blog, since everybody seems to have one these days. I just have to find out if I have something to say, but for the meantime here it is.
