Category — Presenting and facilitating

At On Your Feet, we’re big believers in saying what’s real. (Life is complex enough already, right?) When we get a question from an audience that we can’t answer, we just… uh… say we don’t have the answer. And then do our best to help them find it.

That said, Jonah Lehrer, contributing editor at  Wired and author of the blog, The Frontal Cortex, was recently part of OHSU’s brain lecture series here in Portland. He was lecturing to a full auditorium about his new book, How We Decide, when someone from the audience asked a really tough one, about brain chemistry. I loved his answer and am adding it to my own back pocket: [Read more →]

People always ask us for more examples of ways to show – vs. tell – the value of their idea or proposal. Of course they do! Because it’s much stickier and interesting if we ourselves “show” – vs. tell about – these. Here’s one that Alan Scott and his smart team at national consultancy Green Building Services came up with during a recent workshop. The team was working on a presentation about adopting green strategies for a large audience of school principals, administrators and School Board members.
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