David Yau & Associates

Further to my last 2 posts, this one is about the teacher. The French teacher is a great (learning) facilitator. She can easily get a...

I talked about Professor Michael Sandel before here. I am drawn to his works again given what is going on in Hong Kong. It is again...

I conducted a presentation class for 9 newly-joined management trainees in our firm. They are mostly fresh undergraduates i.e. they are...

I made a casual lunch presentation last week in the office to share my personal view on time management. Unlike the slides common in...

I find a good source of cartoons on www.glasbergen.com.   Oh, and there are chinese versions on www.hroot.com/businesscartoon/

Following my learning from the William Rothwell’s session, I now incorporate a course-end quiz into most of my new courses.  There are...

I got a new iPod nano (Gen 4) and was fascinated by the high resolution when I played video on it.  It is great to watch it on the iPod...

Course: A presentation class Date: 20 Sep 08 Location: Beijing # of Learners: 8 I am feeling: Excited though tired I delivered a...

Course: A presentation skills workshop Date: 18-19 Aug 08 Location: Shanghai, China # of Learners: 10 I am feeling: Good It is the first...

Step 2 Factor the strongly-related personal interests (SRPI) in the presentation topic Avoid the boring topic like ‘Briefing on the...

In my last presentation class, when we discussed the idea of WIIFM, a learner asked: ‘I am responsible for updating the Relationship...

Underlying Problem – You are running an in-company product briefing. You want some interaction to engage the audience. You plan to do...

Do you like the economists? Not many people do. At least it is claimed by one of the prominent economists himself – Robert Frank, the...

Audience can get bored when you talk for some time. And this happens earlier than you think (or wish). It is around 18 minutes. ...

My another learning from "The Articulate Executive - Learn to Look, Act, and Sound Like a Leader" by Granville Toogood. - it is about...

With the 7 days of holiday in the Spring Festival, I can now have more time to work on my blog. One thing is about the books I...

Today is the first day of the Year of Rat. (Yes, it is your year if you were born on 1996, 1974, 1962…) It is also the start of the...

I talked about Satellite Delay in my last post. And I did find out something useful through the activity on Day 2 of the presentation...

I learned of the new Apple laptop yesterday - MacBook Air. Very cool! And shortly after the product announcement in MacWorld, I read a...

A reader asked me recently why this blog is called ‘Ask, Not Tell’ (or ANT as I call it sometimes). I am embarrassed to realise that I...