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project within the time but took a couple of risks and got away with it without the audience appearing to notice. The audience appeared satisfied with my performance but the feedback that I was calm and in control belied how I really felt. Whilst I was not as nervous as when I gave the five minute presentation, I thought that my mouth was just a little ahead of my brain and I was hanging on as I went through the demonstration. At the end of the day, what matters is how the observers perceived my performance. I learnt a lot from the whole day. It is clear to me that I need to develop the following areas of my performance.
· To take control of the ‘stage’ and make it into my comfort zone. · To believe that, in general, an audience wants the demonstrator to succeed. · To select a project or projects within my capability and practise before hand. · To always have a ‘plan B’ to fall back on. · To improve time management.
I am grateful to Peter Bradwick and the AWGB for their time and the opportunity to undertake this training. Malcolm Caines views. Overall, I think the day went extremely well. The atmosphere was friendly, the audience sympathetic and forgiving, and the criticism entirely constructive. I learned a lot and any demonstration I may give in the future can only be better as a result of attending this course. For me it achieved the aims stated above. I would have no hesitation in recommending this course to any member who would be interested. My thanks must go to the committee for arranging it all, to Margaret and Peter Ford for providing the refreshments throughout the day and last, but not least, to Peter Bradwick, for his efforts on our behalf. Keith Lanchester’s comments. I over ran on time and looking back think this was a rather ambitious piece for such a short time slot. Peter again critiqued each presentation but this time directly after each one and not at the end. Generally the feedback from both Peter and the other members present (yes we did have a small audience) was very positive and encouraging and most of us were only picked up on very small things such as the fact that I said "Umm" a couple of times! I feel the day was extremely worthwhile and have picked up many points for my next demonstrations, the most important being that of prior planning. One other important point that I would not necessarily have thought about is to always have a plan 'B' just in case something goes wrong and you are unable to proceed with the original piece and then need to continue on a pre-prepared second piece. |
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“Need to Plan!” |
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“A good day with positive results” |
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“I learnt a lot” |
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“day was extremely worthwhile |