A different stress response that you might not have heard of could be at play when people experience feeling nervous or apprehensive. In the workplace that may be before a meeting or a presentation, for example.
Until relatively recently nearly all animal stress response research was conducted on male animals. This changed in 2000 when Shelley Taylor observed a different stress response was happening in female humans and animals. She dubbed this response, “tend and befriend”, and it has been referred to by others as “appease”.
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A different stress response; when fight, flight, and freeze don’t apply.
Posted by Kitty Bertenshaw
Top 5 tips for presenting with slides
Posted by Doron Davidson
It may not be an offence punishable by imprisonment (yet!), but causing death by PowerPoint is something many might still consider a crime so, to help you avoid some of the classic presentation pitfalls, we’d like share some key ideas and our top 5 tips for presenting with slides.
At some point you may well have sat through a presentation that has felt more like an information dump than an opportunity to take away something new, interesting or useful. And at the end of it, you’re left wondering – could this have been a PDF, instead?
It’s also noticeable when a presenter is using a slide presentation as a crutch or relying on it to deflect the audience’s attention from themselves.
Being Thankful
Posted by Bronia Szczygiel
It’s Lent – a time I usually ‘give something up’ or, in more recent years, do something positive for the world.
This year, for me, it’s a conundrum.
We’ve all given up so much already because of the virus, and it’s so difficult to do something positive for others with most of the world in lockdown.
I still want to mark the Lenten season in some way and want a positive way to do it.
So what’s the answer?