The September 2008 Saturday Workshop

Presenting is a “win-win” situation: Your audience gets the benefit of your knowledge and experience, and you get exposure and appreciation for your work. In addition, because you must clearly articulate your ideas in order to present them, you are forced to clarify your own thinking and refine your skills.

Still, it can seem daunting to propose a session. And the idea of presenting can be especially intimidating if you do not have much experience.

Whether you are new to presenting, or simply want a “jump start” on putting together a new proposal, this workshop provides a good opportunity to get started in actually developing a session.

Through presentation, discussion, and practice, we will look first at what makes for a good session and then work through the steps to:

• Define your topic and clarify what you want to cover
• Consider your audience
• Define objectives and outline content that supports them
• Integrate activities to make the session interactive and help insure that the participants get the most from it

Bring your ideas for presentations and workshops. This is a hands-on workshop, focused on clarifying and developing a specific idea.