{"id":2296,"date":"2025-05-12T22:51:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T22:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/?p=2296"},"modified":"2026-04-03T12:59:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T12:59:05","slug":"one-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/one-change\/","title":{"rendered":"One change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One change to change your presentations, forever. One change to engage every audience you present to. One change to set you as an inspiration to everyone who seeks to improve their presentations. One change to rule them all? Will you make just one change in the way that you construct, deliver and review presentations? If you do, the world will never be the same again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/one-ring-1024x576.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2311\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When you plan a presentation, how much information do you think you can deliver? When you enter an auditorium as an audience member, how much information do you think you can retain? Will that change if you&#8217;re just there for 2 hours or the whole day? How are you quantifying that? The reality is that virtually all of it will be<a href=\"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/2013\/03\/11\/lost-in-time-like-tears-in-rain\/\"> Lost in time, like tears in rain.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you make just one change as a presenter, stop trying to deliver information and consider communicating instead. <a href=\"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/2018\/01\/28\/listing-facts\/\">Stop listing things<\/a> like a textbook and consider sharing ideas as a discussion.<br>Stop using the slideset <a href=\"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/2016\/08\/29\/slideument-obvious-oblivious\/\">as a document (slideument)<\/a> and consider using it as illustration to your message.<br>That&#8217;s the one change to rule them all. <a href=\"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/2013\/03\/08\/if-i-could-make-just-one-change-to-improve-what-should-it-be\/\">Start there.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is in considering the difference between teaching and learning that the insight will come. 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