just got back from two days of presentation/communications skills training. In 20 hours of instruction, I made 6 presentations (all of which were videotaped), critiqued 36 presentations made by my classmates, was made to stand on pieces of paper, and was made to "punch" the screen with big gestures. We learned about the 6 types of evidence we should give in support of our points: experience, expert, example, fact, analogy, and statistic - more on these later.

As I get back to the office tomorrow morning after this intensive training & my trip to san fran, I'm sure the blogging will be light for the rest of the week as I catch up on work & try to absorb all these new realities/insights.