Some years ago I was given a copy of a wonderful e-book by Seth Godin called \u201cReally Bad PowerPoint (and how to avoid it)\u201d. At the time I was working for a large corporation in London and subjected to weekly doses of death by PowerPoint. This little book was an eye opener as it addressed a very specific corporate sin \u2013 bad communication.<\/p>\n
It was small, digestible and contained many pearls of wisdom that guided me in my presentation style. In essence it helped me put the power back in PowerPoint.<\/p>\n
A few years \u2013 and a few organisations later \u2013 I began to reflect on another corporate sin: the bad workshop.\u00a0 If you\u2019ve experienced bad PowerPoint then it\u2019s likely that you have also experienced a bad workshop.\u00a0 The difference is that while a bad presentation might last for minutes (if you’re lucky), a bad workshop can drag on for hours (if you’re lucky).<\/p>\n
However it’s not hard to create better workshops, and so I put virtual pen to virtual paper and wrote a eBook.\u00a0 To be more precise I’ve written the shortest eBook (18 pages) with the longest title (24 words): Really Bad Workshops (and how to avoid them). Ten Tips to Make Workshops Work. By Roger Dennis (with acknowledgement to Seth Godin). <\/strong>It’s based on my experience running corporate workshops around the world for both the public and private sector.<\/p>\n If you use Twitter it’s virtually free and you can pay with a tweet for the book.\u00a0 If you don’t use Twitter, it’s still virtually free.<\/p>\n