Google Ops Presentation and Meeting Formats

Fri Jan 27 17:47:03 PST 2006

That's a tough order putting room discipline on the shoulders of the 
speaker. You have to remember that the speakers are invited by the 
group... therefore, they would probably feel that they are being rude 
if they go against what the group seems to want.

If the group acts like it wants to spend 3/4 of the alloted time 
discussing the first two slides, the speaker will often let things 
unfold that way. After all, how well do they really know what a 
particular audience wants? From my experience, figuring out the scope 
of what the audience wants to hear is often the most difficult part of 
any speaking engagement.

Isn't it really up to the group to decide what they want from the 
presentations and inform the speakers of the expectations or format?

On Jan 27, 2006, at 5:07 PM, Alan Horn wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Brent Chapman wrote:
>
>>
>> From my point of view, both of them ended up rushing through the last 
>> 1/2 to 1/3 of their presentations, which is usually the most 
>> interesting parts, because they got held up in the introductory stuff 
>> in the beginning.
>>
>>
>
> But honestly Brent, thats the speaker's issue to solve. We may have to 
> agree to disagree on this point if you don't see it that way.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Al
>