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3 ideas for giving that
scintillating craft talk
Research has shown a number of things that
make an occasion memorable.
If you can incorporate them into your presentations they your talks
will be un-missable.
Most important to our recollection of events are our emotions and how
they were touched. Whatever you do during your 'stint' needs to
reach people on a personal level, touching emotions in a positive
way. In other words your talk has to be relevant and
engaging. Involving people in their own learning is the key to
successful teaching.
So what 3 steps do you need to investigate?
1.
You and your personality
2. Making the experience count
3. Teaching and entertaining
Let's take them one by one.
1. You and your personality
I often tell people that it's not enough just to know your
subject. We can all think of incredibly intelligent and informed
individuals who really couldn't inspire interest. Their level of
knowledge wasn't at fault.
What made the difference was their ability to reach their
audience. Being engrossed in your subject without reacting to the
mood of the audience will leave you with egg on your face.
So when you're planning how to share your enthusiasm, bring your
personality into it. Enthusiasm is catching if it engages people
and enables them to interact and respond.
Allowing people to both listen and participate encourages
reaction. You want the right sort of reaction so make your
talk/presentation lively, with a balance of natural humour and stories.
2. Making the experience count
As mentioned earlier, the experience needs to be emotionally
memorable. For it to 'count' as such it must relate to both
individuals and the group on a variety of levels.
- Ask questions of individuals
- Involve their responses in your dialogue
if you have the
confidence.
- Encourage questions and relate
individual skills to your
subject. Praise shared knowledge.
This will raise your own standing with the group and bring pride to the
individual.
Think of the ways in which you can make a difference.
- Perhaps a different slant on a theme
- A more energetic performance,
- The inclusion of samples
- Reference to something that you know the
group has been
involved with.
All these will build a group rapport and set you apart from other
speakers doing the rounds.
Nothing kills a meeting stone dead more than a speaker singing their
own praises and relying on their own speaking skills.
With a creative subject like crafts there are bound to be ways that you
can involve individuals in the session.
3. Teaching and entertaining
I don't mean juggling and keeping people awed by your skills.
That really shouldn't be the priority.
Look for ways that you can teach parts of your skills through an
entertaining style.
When I go and talk about craft subjects that I teach I try to take a
selection of crafts which I pass around. As I talk about the
crafts requested, I explain how they are made. My emphasis is not
on how I did it, but rather how they can too.
If you take your eyes off yourself and think how you can help others'
to learn then your talk will be more informative and memorable.
Remember, it's the memory of the event that will keep you in people's
minds. Be engaging, charismatic, knowledgeable and responsive and
they'll be coming up to you afterwards to thank you for your
presentation.
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Geraldine Jozefiak is passionate about
crafts and their place in
education. Be part of raising standards in teaching and learning
by offering the best possible creative opportunities.
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