I love working as a trial technician because I get to be in the room where it happens, watching and listening to attorneys present their cases. As an attorney myself, I’ve been in their shoes, and I learn a lot by listening in court and thinking about the choices made in presentation.
One thing I often note are apologies by the attorneys. Among those apologies, among the most frequent is some variant of “I know you can’t read this from there.” Continue reading
Good post from Persuasive Litigator on the importance of practicing your presentation, including tips on recording and memorization.
Interesting defense of bullet points in presentations here: Resurrecting the bullet point: the return of an old and valued friend by Philip Yaffe
Great interaction with moving data to explain life expectancy vs. family size and more. The tool is Gapminder.
Why are we not using the data we have? Because the data is hidden in databases.
Storytelling is joke telling. It’s knowing your punchline, your ending, knowing that everything you’re saying, from the first sentence to the last, is leading to a singular goal, and ideally confirming some truth that deepens our understandings of who we are as human beings. We all love stories. We’re born for them. Stories affirm who we are.
Make me care.
The audience wants to work for their meal.
We’re born problem solvers.
A strong theme is always running through a well told story.
We follow those who lead, not for them, but for ourselves.
Great post by Dr. Ken Broda-Brahm re the importance of sounding confident and energized in court based on a study, Covert digital manipulation of vocal emotion alter speakers’ emotional states in a congruent direction Jean-Julien Aucouturier, Petter Johansson, Lars Hall , Rodrigo Segnini, Lolita Mercadié , and Katsumi Watanabe,
