Reading

1. Skim
2. Vocab
- underline every phrase / word don't understand
- find out what these mean
3. Comprehension
- section by section
4. Reflection & Criticism

Shoes

Goes along with knowing your audience & "why?" but it's always helpful to take 2 steps back and see things from other people's perspective.

Know your audience

Know who you're presenting, their background and objectives. Invaluable to structuring the presentation.

WHY?

Perhaps the question I get asked the most nowadays. But it's always different depending on who's asking. And they why everything :)

Don't waste words

So what?

I get asked this a lot. It's actually a good question and when said in the right way makes you stop, take 2 steps back and think. what is the "so what?" of that...

What's the story?

Perhaps one of the most important things to think about and articulate. It's not the history. It's not the (point) of the story. Part of it is how you connect the dots.