According to the Index of Learning Styles developed by Richard Felder and Linda Silverman in the late 1980s, there are four continuums that every speaker should be aware of, , , Sensory to Intuitive, , ,Visual to Verbal, , , Active to Reflective, , , Sequential to Global.
Let’s look at the first two “extremes.” Sensory learners are interested in the concrete, practical, and procedural information. They just want the facts.
While the Intuitive learners prefer conceptual, creative, and theoretical ideas. Meaning is vital to them.
Let’s look at the above six descriptive words, as opposite as they may at first, appear. Concrete, practical, and procedural , , , and conceptual, creative, and theoretical.
What teaching tool could tie these two groups of three together? What could illustrate both the concrete and the conceptual? The practical and the creative? The procedural and the theoretical?
Only one tool, , , a perfectly designed Theme Model.
Let’s look at one, The Product Life Cycle (PLC). Its' four phases are both, , , concrete and conceptual. Products really do go through these (concrete) phases, introduction, growth, maturity and decline.
But product development is also a conceptual experience, , , like knowing when to activate new resources and activities to insure “growth” or extend “maturity.” The PLC’s bell curve illustrates both of these “extremes.”
All the way accross the board the Theme Model is a clear winner as both a flexable and reliable communication tool.
In future posts I’ll cover the other ends of continuums of the Felder/Silverman model.
Enjoy!
Wayne
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Sunday, September 19, 2010
Monday, May 24, 2010
Public Speakers 5 Biggest Questions, Part Two
I do not want to over-simplify these five riddles, but I’m about to offer you one solution for all of these five, very different problems.
It might be called “Wayne’s Super Fix.”
It’s a commanding use of one Theme Model for your topic, speech or presentation. Not a big lofty, 50 slide presentation.
We’ll start at the top; Stage Fright? There’s a lot of advice out there but no one will tell you this fix.
Develop a strong Theme Model for your presentation, then don’t speak or present, , , just talk about your masterpiece. It’s your baby, , , something that no one has every seen or heard of before.
Tell them about how you discovered all of its elements, who helped you organize them, what the critical point(s) are and how your pattern works in real life, etc.
You’ll knock their socks off, even it you stumble all over the place. Guaranteed!
Red-Hot Topic? Get a subject you can draw in one frame, , , one that you can turn into a powerful Theme Model and you are home free.
Speak Without Notes? Just use your new-found way of curbing stage fright. Talk about your Theme Model.
Toastmasters to Profitable Career? Tell people about your Theme Model. In your TM speeches, in your TM club, have your TM buds promote you, in your blog (if I can set-up one, anyone can), website, Twitter, Squidoo, Facebook and the lists goes on.
You can write articles about it online and offline. The secret is that you have something (your Theme Model) to promote, so use it every way you can.
Beating Out the Big Boys and Girls? To do that you’re going need some kind of an advantage on them, , , and you do! Your Theme Model.
That Theme Model of yours is a visual aid, usually with from three to seven elements that embodies your whole presentations. And it will set you apart and above those speakers who don't have such an effective tool. It will be what puts you ahead of the pack.
Wayne
P.S. Heart model from http://www.heart-health-weightwatcher.com/ . Click on diagram of the heart to enlarge.
It might be called “Wayne’s Super Fix.”
It’s a commanding use of one Theme Model for your topic, speech or presentation. Not a big lofty, 50 slide presentation.
We’ll start at the top; Stage Fright? There’s a lot of advice out there but no one will tell you this fix.Develop a strong Theme Model for your presentation, then don’t speak or present, , , just talk about your masterpiece. It’s your baby, , , something that no one has every seen or heard of before.
Tell them about how you discovered all of its elements, who helped you organize them, what the critical point(s) are and how your pattern works in real life, etc.
You’ll knock their socks off, even it you stumble all over the place. Guaranteed!
Red-Hot Topic? Get a subject you can draw in one frame, , , one that you can turn into a powerful Theme Model and you are home free.
Speak Without Notes? Just use your new-found way of curbing stage fright. Talk about your Theme Model.
Toastmasters to Profitable Career? Tell people about your Theme Model. In your TM speeches, in your TM club, have your TM buds promote you, in your blog (if I can set-up one, anyone can), website, Twitter, Squidoo, Facebook and the lists goes on.
You can write articles about it online and offline. The secret is that you have something (your Theme Model) to promote, so use it every way you can.
Beating Out the Big Boys and Girls? To do that you’re going need some kind of an advantage on them, , , and you do! Your Theme Model.
That Theme Model of yours is a visual aid, usually with from three to seven elements that embodies your whole presentations. And it will set you apart and above those speakers who don't have such an effective tool. It will be what puts you ahead of the pack.
Wayne
P.S. Heart model from http://www.heart-health-weightwatcher.com/ . Click on diagram of the heart to enlarge.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
8 Viewpoints of the Visuals You Use, Wayne Kronz
Part of the my main seminar, How to Draw Your Message for Fun and Huge Profit, is a small section about the eight (8) mindsets you should have toward the visual aids you have created for your presentation.
2. Think further of your new born graphic as being the essence of what you are about to present. It’s English definition is the "basic element of anything," in concentrated form.
Such is your model to your message.
3. Your visual aid is your own private opportunity to “draw your message.” Or, to take it out of a spoken and written form and put it into a graphic form.
4. This is where you consciously think and say, “This is how it works.” It’s your actual delivery of your message to your audience.
5 and 6. For your visual message to have it’s best impact, it must, both represent the smallest detail and the big picture of what you have to say. And it is not always easy to do.
7. Think of your theme model as being your partner as your teaching tool.
8. And, last but not least, is what your visual aid is to your audience; a tool that will equip them to better and more quickly learn what you are teaching.
Bonus: It will further help them teach others what you have taught them.
So, as you create and use your visual aids in your presentation, always be aware of the powerful tool you have in your hand.
Wayne
8 Viewpoints of the Visuals You Use, Wayne Kronz
1. First of it all, any visual aid that you create for any presentation should be considered a “model” of your message. By definition, a model is “a replica of the real thing” or “reality”.View more presentations or Upload your own.
2. Think further of your new born graphic as being the essence of what you are about to present. It’s English definition is the "basic element of anything," in concentrated form.
Such is your model to your message.
3. Your visual aid is your own private opportunity to “draw your message.” Or, to take it out of a spoken and written form and put it into a graphic form.
4. This is where you consciously think and say, “This is how it works.” It’s your actual delivery of your message to your audience.
5 and 6. For your visual message to have it’s best impact, it must, both represent the smallest detail and the big picture of what you have to say. And it is not always easy to do.
7. Think of your theme model as being your partner as your teaching tool.
8. And, last but not least, is what your visual aid is to your audience; a tool that will equip them to better and more quickly learn what you are teaching.
Bonus: It will further help them teach others what you have taught them.
So, as you create and use your visual aids in your presentation, always be aware of the powerful tool you have in your hand.
Wayne
Thursday, March 25, 2010
10 Ways The Presenters Brain Uses a Theme Model, Part Two
Earlier I posted an article entitled, 10 Ways The Presenters Brain Uses a Theme Model. Actually, it was a list of “the first five” ways a theme model benefits a presenter that are seldom gained by using a typical PowerPoint presentation.
Today we’ll look at “the second five.”
Remember “the first five,” organize, clarify, evaluate, prioritize and patterns. There are similarities in this list, but each minute element is a function every speaker should consider in detail, regarding his topic.
(Remember the initials, OCEPP. They’ll help you remember these elements.)
6. Relationship. In your mind, , , as you begin to speak and present your topic, one thing is vitally important; it’s how one part, principle and/or element relates to the other factors within your presentation.
And as the late great founder of the National Speakers Association (NSA), Cavett Robert used to say, “if it’s cloudy in the pulpit, it’s gonna be blamed foggy in the pew.”
You must have a clear understanding of how everything in your presentation relates to everything else. And the simpler you arrange its elements together the better you’ll do.
Back to Cavett Robert. He taught a principle he called, “the divinity of simplicity.” "Simple, simply makes everything simpler." (Wayne said that :>)
7. Process. Graphically, it’s known as Process Modeling. Or, as I call it in this blog, Method Mapping.
It makes little difference what you call it, , , but that you can draw it, , , how your message works in real life.
Being able to turn to your whiteboard or flipchart, , , or draw it on the side of a box or the back of a napkin, you maximize your ability to communicate your topic is a meaningful sort of way.
8. Reject. You will tend to use most of your research material. But there will be things that will not fit, , , regardless of how much you wish they would.
Reducing everything to it’s simplest form helps you to see these items that “just don't fit.” At the end of the day, you will probably just reject this information as simply not valid.
9. Practice. Sooner of later, you’ll need to tie your whole presentation all together (in your mind, that is, , , and a simple piece of paper works best.)
Here’s a public speaking tip (a huge one) I have never heard anyone give. It’s “how to practice your speech.”
You’ve all heard about practicing in front of a mirror, recording your talk, video taping it, or actually giving in front of friends or family. They are all good methods but not the best.
The best way is a two-step approach. Step one: Summarize your whole presentation into a good Theme Model. Step two, , , draw that little visual aid on everything between where you are right now and when you actually give your presentation.
A napkin, a box, the back of an envelope, , , and the list goes on. As you draw, do your mind-talk covering every point and detail of your speech. My friend, this is a vastly superior all other methods of practicing your material.
10. Implementing. If you are going to teach something, , , anything? You must know your method works.
To know it will, you must test it. And test it you must using the same tool you are offering someone else; your Theme Model. (Clue; RPRPI)
Today we’ll look at “the second five.”
Remember “the first five,” organize, clarify, evaluate, prioritize and patterns. There are similarities in this list, but each minute element is a function every speaker should consider in detail, regarding his topic.
(Remember the initials, OCEPP. They’ll help you remember these elements.)
6. Relationship. In your mind, , , as you begin to speak and present your topic, one thing is vitally important; it’s how one part, principle and/or element relates to the other factors within your presentation.
And as the late great founder of the National Speakers Association (NSA), Cavett Robert used to say, “if it’s cloudy in the pulpit, it’s gonna be blamed foggy in the pew.”
You must have a clear understanding of how everything in your presentation relates to everything else. And the simpler you arrange its elements together the better you’ll do.
Back to Cavett Robert. He taught a principle he called, “the divinity of simplicity.” "Simple, simply makes everything simpler." (Wayne said that :>)
7. Process. Graphically, it’s known as Process Modeling. Or, as I call it in this blog, Method Mapping.
It makes little difference what you call it, , , but that you can draw it, , , how your message works in real life.
Being able to turn to your whiteboard or flipchart, , , or draw it on the side of a box or the back of a napkin, you maximize your ability to communicate your topic is a meaningful sort of way.
8. Reject. You will tend to use most of your research material. But there will be things that will not fit, , , regardless of how much you wish they would.
Reducing everything to it’s simplest form helps you to see these items that “just don't fit.” At the end of the day, you will probably just reject this information as simply not valid.
9. Practice. Sooner of later, you’ll need to tie your whole presentation all together (in your mind, that is, , , and a simple piece of paper works best.)
Here’s a public speaking tip (a huge one) I have never heard anyone give. It’s “how to practice your speech.”
You’ve all heard about practicing in front of a mirror, recording your talk, video taping it, or actually giving in front of friends or family. They are all good methods but not the best.
The best way is a two-step approach. Step one: Summarize your whole presentation into a good Theme Model. Step two, , , draw that little visual aid on everything between where you are right now and when you actually give your presentation.
A napkin, a box, the back of an envelope, , , and the list goes on. As you draw, do your mind-talk covering every point and detail of your speech. My friend, this is a vastly superior all other methods of practicing your material.
10. Implementing. If you are going to teach something, , , anything? You must know your method works.
To know it will, you must test it. And test it you must using the same tool you are offering someone else; your Theme Model. (Clue; RPRPI)
Wayne
P.S. Look for the coming article, "OCEPP and RPRPI."
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
10 Ways The Presenters Brain Uses a Theme Model
To so many presenters in the world today, the term "visual aid" means PowerPoint. The minute they are told that they will making a particular presentation, they run to their computer and open up PPT and then one of its templates, and they start "filling in the blanks."
A few days later and they wind up with what I call "a slide a minute" slideshow with an average of 5.6 bullet-point elements on each slide.
What a pity!
According to the world's best mind (that's my opinion), , , in the presentation industry, Dan Roam, author of the best-selling book, The Back of the Napkin (Expanded Edition): Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures
, "people only pay attention to the first five or six slides."
And I believe that. I've watched it happen many times.
I'm going to say this, , , and I'll probably say it again, , , "Using a many-slide, bullet-point riddles slideshow is a third rate teaching method." All the hard work of putting such a program together is simply "lots of time wasted."
Today we are going to look at this whole ordeal, strictly from the presenters point of view. The title of this article says 10 Ways The Presenters Brain Uses a Theme Model. I'm going to break this writing into two sections (Part One and Part Two).
When you go the PowerPoint direction, you pass up on several benefits you gain as a speaker. Some of them are,
1. Organize. When you follow someone else's template, you seldom crystallize your your presentation like you do if you were fine-tuning it to three, five or even seven key principles.
You simply keep generalizing, , , and never focus on what is critically important to your audiences.
And you wind up reading the slides to your learners. Bad!
You'll never get really organized for a presentations until you can put your whole pitch into a handful of principles that can be illustrated in a simple and understandable graphic. It's the preferred method of teaching of world-class presenters like Jim Collins, Stephen Covey, Robert Kiyosaki, Micheal Porter, and Peter Senge.
2. Clarify. One of the biggest flaws in a typical business presentation is clarity. Everything is "up for grabs." Audiences don't know what's important and what is not.
It's only when your whole topic is reduced to it's simplest form, does the reality of ease of understanding come into play.
3. Evaluate. When I just mentioned "clarity" I was speaking of the clarity of the message to the presenter. As a clear understanding of what you are going to be teaching strikes you, fuzzy and confusing points may come to your mind.
At this point you may want to re-think parts of your message. And seeing it in a simple hand-drawn theme model will certainly bring this point home to you.
4. Prioritize. One thing that I teach is the concept of hierarchical thinking. People must know what is vital and what is not so important. And a whole bunch of slides will not underline what is key and what is not important at all.
And, again, having your whole message condensed into a quick and easy diagram will help you pass it on to your audience in the most usable fashion.
5. Patterns. One thing that will work as your partner while you are teaching is when your audiences begin to see patterns in the elements of your message. And nothing can illustrate that like a strong, well designed theme model.
The problem, in almost all of the above cases is that PowerPoint just doesn't really prepare you to teach these many details and inner workings of a typical business or behavior presentation.
Look for Part Two of this presentation, , , or the "second five" ways the presenters brain uses a theme model.
Wayne.
A few days later and they wind up with what I call "a slide a minute" slideshow with an average of 5.6 bullet-point elements on each slide.
What a pity!
According to the world's best mind (that's my opinion), , , in the presentation industry, Dan Roam, author of the best-selling book, The Back of the Napkin (Expanded Edition): Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures
, "people only pay attention to the first five or six slides."And I believe that. I've watched it happen many times.
I'm going to say this, , , and I'll probably say it again, , , "Using a many-slide, bullet-point riddles slideshow is a third rate teaching method." All the hard work of putting such a program together is simply "lots of time wasted."
Today we are going to look at this whole ordeal, strictly from the presenters point of view. The title of this article says 10 Ways The Presenters Brain Uses a Theme Model. I'm going to break this writing into two sections (Part One and Part Two).
When you go the PowerPoint direction, you pass up on several benefits you gain as a speaker. Some of them are,
1. Organize. When you follow someone else's template, you seldom crystallize your your presentation like you do if you were fine-tuning it to three, five or even seven key principles.
You simply keep generalizing, , , and never focus on what is critically important to your audiences.
And you wind up reading the slides to your learners. Bad!
You'll never get really organized for a presentations until you can put your whole pitch into a handful of principles that can be illustrated in a simple and understandable graphic. It's the preferred method of teaching of world-class presenters like Jim Collins, Stephen Covey, Robert Kiyosaki, Micheal Porter, and Peter Senge.
2. Clarify. One of the biggest flaws in a typical business presentation is clarity. Everything is "up for grabs." Audiences don't know what's important and what is not.
It's only when your whole topic is reduced to it's simplest form, does the reality of ease of understanding come into play.
3. Evaluate. When I just mentioned "clarity" I was speaking of the clarity of the message to the presenter. As a clear understanding of what you are going to be teaching strikes you, fuzzy and confusing points may come to your mind.
At this point you may want to re-think parts of your message. And seeing it in a simple hand-drawn theme model will certainly bring this point home to you.
4. Prioritize. One thing that I teach is the concept of hierarchical thinking. People must know what is vital and what is not so important. And a whole bunch of slides will not underline what is key and what is not important at all.
And, again, having your whole message condensed into a quick and easy diagram will help you pass it on to your audience in the most usable fashion.
5. Patterns. One thing that will work as your partner while you are teaching is when your audiences begin to see patterns in the elements of your message. And nothing can illustrate that like a strong, well designed theme model.
The problem, in almost all of the above cases is that PowerPoint just doesn't really prepare you to teach these many details and inner workings of a typical business or behavior presentation.
Look for Part Two of this presentation, , , or the "second five" ways the presenters brain uses a theme model.
Wayne.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Teaching Less is More!
If your primary job is to teach, then this post is for you.
Consider this reality--almost all teachers try to teach to much material. Most students, at any level, particularly adult learners simply can not handle everything you "throw at them."
And, if you're just throwing it out there hoping "some of it will stick" then I ask you to reconsider this approach.
You may be thinking, "What's the answer?" Here are three, , ,
First--strategically teach less. I'm sure you could employ the "chunking" principle. Back in 1956, George Miller introduced the "Magic Number Seven, , , seven, plus or minus two" rule, stating that the number of objects an average human can hold in working memory is 7 ± 2 chunks.
Forget the 7 + 2 = 9, , , that's for geniuses. Regular people will deal successfully with less items. Say a list of five or even three ideas.
When you spend one hour covering only five (or three) points, people are far more likely to remember them than the contents of a fifty slide PowerPoint presentation.
Then, what do you do if you can only pare your message down to, say, 15 items. You may be in trouble, , , unless, , ,
Second--use a mnemonic device. These are memory helpers that help your learners connect what you are teaching (all 15 items) to what they already know. They are tricks like abbreviations, songs, poetry or, my favorite, the Memory Path.
This will take some time, and work. But it's well worth the investment.
Third--get visual. If you can break your message down to seven, five or three elements, and then re-structure these ideas into a Theme Model, then you are on your way.
The use of a five or seven element model will insure the "stickability" of your lesson. And that's exactly what you are learning here at MethodMap.blogspot.com.
Wayne
P.S. In a few days I will have posted my visual aid for Brian Tracy's Crisis Management Plan that he covers in his book, Time Power: A Proven System for Getting More Done in Less Time Than You Ever Thought Possible
. See how I have reduced six items into five, and make it all much more understandable.
Consider this reality--almost all teachers try to teach to much material. Most students, at any level, particularly adult learners simply can not handle everything you "throw at them."
And, if you're just throwing it out there hoping "some of it will stick" then I ask you to reconsider this approach.
You may be thinking, "What's the answer?" Here are three, , ,
First--strategically teach less. I'm sure you could employ the "chunking" principle. Back in 1956, George Miller introduced the "Magic Number Seven, , , seven, plus or minus two" rule, stating that the number of objects an average human can hold in working memory is 7 ± 2 chunks.
Forget the 7 + 2 = 9, , , that's for geniuses. Regular people will deal successfully with less items. Say a list of five or even three ideas.
When you spend one hour covering only five (or three) points, people are far more likely to remember them than the contents of a fifty slide PowerPoint presentation.
Then, what do you do if you can only pare your message down to, say, 15 items. You may be in trouble, , , unless, , ,
Second--use a mnemonic device. These are memory helpers that help your learners connect what you are teaching (all 15 items) to what they already know. They are tricks like abbreviations, songs, poetry or, my favorite, the Memory Path.
This will take some time, and work. But it's well worth the investment.
Third--get visual. If you can break your message down to seven, five or three elements, and then re-structure these ideas into a Theme Model, then you are on your way.
The use of a five or seven element model will insure the "stickability" of your lesson. And that's exactly what you are learning here at MethodMap.blogspot.com.
Wayne
P.S. In a few days I will have posted my visual aid for Brian Tracy's Crisis Management Plan that he covers in his book, Time Power: A Proven System for Getting More Done in Less Time Than You Ever Thought Possible
. See how I have reduced six items into five, and make it all much more understandable.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
My Advise to Dr. Phil
If there is a person on Planet Earth who seems like he doesn’t need any advice, at all, it is Dr. Phil McGraw. Matter of fact—he is the fellow who is always giving the advice.
Who am I, a lowly designer/speaker to give Dr. Phil or any of his Oprah orchestrated people any real help? But I’m going to give it a try.
And I do so with all respect, , , after all, he is going to do what he wants to do, , , and that’s OK with me. Here it is, , ,
Dr. Phil—Get Visual!
Every since the Mad Cow days, you’ve been on top of the world. And the TV rating charts. And the book sales charts.
I humbly predict that some day some new dude or dudette will come alone and all of a sudden, no one is wanting your advice anymore. It will be “goodbye” Art Linkletter (Opps) Dr. Phil and “hello” Mr. New Dude.
That’s just the way life is.
Here’s my position, Doc.
Pop-psychology is a fickled business. Here today, gone tomorrow. (Actual some have lasted for decades, like the two I’m about to mention.)
They are the works of Abraham Maslow and the Transactional Analysis (TA) movement. Though originated in the ‘50’s, many of these principles are still being published and taught today.
Maslows’ Hierarchy of Human Needs pyramid is the most referred to visual aid of all times and TA’s three circle, PAC model might be the simplest and easiest to understand graphic any presenter has ever used.
Long Live Dr. Phil McGraw!
Dr. Phil, if your career is to last “beyond your own experience,” you need to attach your gr
eat success to a powerful Theme Model like one of the above.
Theme Modeling Equals Longevity
And, without having you expertise in my head, here’s the simple graphic I’d recommend you beginning to use.
Wayne
P.S. And what I’ve shared with Dr. McGraw, I would say to you. Get yourself a strong Theme Model and the spin your whole speaking, publishing, consulting career off it!
Who am I, a lowly designer/speaker to give Dr. Phil or any of his Oprah orchestrated people any real help? But I’m going to give it a try.
And I do so with all respect, , , after all, he is going to do what he wants to do, , , and that’s OK with me. Here it is, , ,
Dr. Phil—Get Visual!
Every since the Mad Cow days, you’ve been on top of the world. And the TV rating charts. And the book sales charts.
I humbly predict that some day some new dude or dudette will come alone and all of a sudden, no one is wanting your advice anymore. It will be “goodbye” Art Linkletter (Opps) Dr. Phil and “hello” Mr. New Dude.
That’s just the way life is.
Here’s my position, Doc.
Pop-psychology is a fickled business. Here today, gone tomorrow. (Actual some have lasted for decades, like the two I’m about to mention.)
They are the works of Abraham Maslow and the Transactional Analysis (TA) movement. Though originated in the ‘50’s, many of these principles are still being published and taught today.
Maslows’ Hierarchy of Human Needs pyramid is the most referred to visual aid of all times and TA’s three circle, PAC model might be the simplest and easiest to understand graphic any presenter has ever used.
Long Live Dr. Phil McGraw!
Dr. Phil, if your career is to last “beyond your own experience,” you need to attach your gr
eat success to a powerful Theme Model like one of the above.Theme Modeling Equals Longevity
And, without having you expertise in my head, here’s the simple graphic I’d recommend you beginning to use.
Wayne
P.S. And what I’ve shared with Dr. McGraw, I would say to you. Get yourself a strong Theme Model and the spin your whole speaking, publishing, consulting career off it!
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
A Perfect Picture of How It’s Done
Eben Pagan is one of my favorite internet marketer. And, one of the best teachers of internet marketing.
He learned the “trade” creating dating information products and selling them to the tune of millions of dollars a year.
Each one of us can learn volumes from his teaching.
Another thing you can learn from him, even though he uses very few visual aids in his speaking, is how to use a Theme Model. Check out how he employs what he calls the Avatar Model.
I can explain until I’m blue in the face, but this short video gives you a perfect picture of how it’s done.
Wayne
He learned the “trade” creating dating information products and selling them to the tune of millions of dollars a year.
Each one of us can learn volumes from his teaching.
Another thing you can learn from him, even though he uses very few visual aids in his speaking, is how to use a Theme Model. Check out how he employs what he calls the Avatar Model.
I can explain until I’m blue in the face, but this short video gives you a perfect picture of how it’s done.
Wayne
Monday, January 11, 2010
What's a Theme Model, Anyway?
In high school and college work you have to write book reports, and term and theme papers, etc. Most instructors insist that a lead part on these writings include a "theme statement."
It's a two or three sentence statement of what the paper is all about.
A Theme Model is much the same thing, , , only the graphic version. In it every point of your presentation is reduced as far as possible, , , but every necessary element is contained in it.
It is a paradox, with which every speaker must deal while they're developing their content, , , and now it is putting it into a visual form. Edited but complete.
Abraham Maslow's pyramid model, known as The Hierarchy of Human Needs, is the most widely published theme model. It embodied all that Maslow taught.
Chris Andersen's, model, from his book by the same name, Long Tail, The, Revised and Updated Edition: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More
is the same sort of visual aid.
I live and breathe graphic modeling. I've studied the visual aids used by world-class presenters every since I was a teen. And that's been a long, long time.
The design and use of theme models is the calling of my life. I create them. I use them. And I teach other people to do the same.
I use PowerPoint a lot.
But I am a firm believer that the best way to really learn theme model building is with a marker and a whiteboard.
So, to teach other presenters how to do their own model drawing, I have developed a very unique seminar-workshop. It's simply called, How to Draw Your Message.
In this program everyone will have their own whiteboard and markers.
The boards will be arranged in a circle around the room.
I will draw something on my board. Each attendee will follow suit and draw the same thing I do. Every box, every circle, every line, every arrow, every stick man, and write every word I do.
You'll learn by doing!
It will be an unparalleled experience. And you'll have fun doing it.
When we are all done with the thirty categories we draw and discuss, you will know how to generate your own Theme Model. Guaranteed!
More about this career-changing program later.
Wayne
P.S. Keep your eyes pealed on this blog and pick up on part two of this article, , , it's called, Is One Visual All I Need? And tell others about it.
It's a two or three sentence statement of what the paper is all about.
A Theme Model is much the same thing, , , only the graphic version. In it every point of your presentation is reduced as far as possible, , , but every necessary element is contained in it.
It is a paradox, with which every speaker must deal while they're developing their content, , , and now it is putting it into a visual form. Edited but complete.
Abraham Maslow's pyramid model, known as The Hierarchy of Human Needs, is the most widely published theme model. It embodied all that Maslow taught.
Chris Andersen's, model, from his book by the same name, Long Tail, The, Revised and Updated Edition: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More
is the same sort of visual aid.I live and breathe graphic modeling. I've studied the visual aids used by world-class presenters every since I was a teen. And that's been a long, long time.
The design and use of theme models is the calling of my life. I create them. I use them. And I teach other people to do the same.
I use PowerPoint a lot.
But I am a firm believer that the best way to really learn theme model building is with a marker and a whiteboard.
So, to teach other presenters how to do their own model drawing, I have developed a very unique seminar-workshop. It's simply called, How to Draw Your Message.
In this program everyone will have their own whiteboard and markers.
The boards will be arranged in a circle around the room.
I will draw something on my board. Each attendee will follow suit and draw the same thing I do. Every box, every circle, every line, every arrow, every stick man, and write every word I do.
You'll learn by doing!
It will be an unparalleled experience. And you'll have fun doing it.
When we are all done with the thirty categories we draw and discuss, you will know how to generate your own Theme Model. Guaranteed!
More about this career-changing program later.
Wayne
P.S. Keep your eyes pealed on this blog and pick up on part two of this article, , , it's called, Is One Visual All I Need? And tell others about it.
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