A few weeks ago I wrote a contraversial post titled Should You Have To Pay To Have Lunch With ME?
My friend Dawn Bugni sent me a link to a slideshare presentation by Sheila Scarborough about picking a brain, titled No, You May NOT Pick My Brain.
Enjoy!
No, You May NOT Pick My Brain
View more presentations from Sheila Scarborough.
If you let me edit this it might be good
I feel like I just had therapy…. and it makes me want to send out invoices right and left!
Hi Recruiting Animal – What changes would you suggest?
Hi Heather – Good; launch them!
Thanks for the plug, Jibber Jobber.
Your repetitions are boring. Your pictures aren’t interesting either. Sorry. It’s a chore to watch it and it need not be.
SLIDE 1 = Your title is prim
Other titles wd have more punch:
Don’t Pick My Brain
Hands off my brain
I’m in business. No free advice.
You want to pick my brain? Pay Me.
SLIDE 2 = wordy and superfluous
SLIDE 3 = dull pic and totally superfluous
SLIDE 4 = poor lay out, not lively
How about:
Knowledge makes money so it’s worth money.
SLIDE 5 = dull pic, superfluous
This is not a hard idea to understand so it doesn’t warrant repetition.
SLIDE 6 = banal, dull
Alternate:
If you want my time, pay for it.
SLIDE 7 = banal pic, superfluous
SLIDE 8 = it’s okay
But these standard pictures of coffee cups are horrendously dull and meaningless. It’s enervating.
SLIDE 9 – no particular punch
Alternate
The internet encourages mooching
SLIDE 10
When so much is free we expect
everything to be free
Thanks very much for your feedback. I’ll seriously consider your suggestions.
This slide deck was for a webinar (so none of the advantages of delivering it in person) for a professional communications group (so can’t go too wild.)
I do appreciate you taking the time to go through it so carefully.
@Sheila, when I read through Animal’s comments I was thinking the slides were created for a live presentation, with words to talk through them… big difference between the two (when you walk someone through each slide vs have them go through it on their own).
Great thoughts, and complementary to my other post… thanks for putting it on slideshare so we could see it 🙂
SLIDE 11
I worked hard to get this info and you
want me to give it to you for free?
SLIDE 12
If I don’t charge you, who’s going
to pay my rent?
SLIDE 13 = superfluous + boring pic
SLIDE 14 =
Have to know more to see what you are getting at. I assume that even social media chit chat need not be done for free.
SLIDE 15 = I like this one
SLIDE 16 = pic awful. cut the dot dot dot. cut the “why”
Alt –
Let’s have lunch = Let me mooch
Let’s have coffee = I want more
SLIDE 16 = it’s okay
Alt:
If I let you mooch from me today,
I’m going to hate you in the morning.
SLIDE 17 = it’s okay. same as 16
Had enough?
@JasonAlba – I don’t agree with you
@Animal – of course you don’t agree with me … you usually don’t agree with people :p
As a professional speaker I like to have slides that explain less, and have people do less thinking about what’s on the slide because I want them to focus on ME.
If there is too much on a slide, or a thorough explanation, they focus on the slide, digest that, and don’t pay as much attention to me.
Some of my favorite in-person presentations have slides with one, or NO, words on them.
However, for someone to go through a slide on their own, each slide needs to make sense and have a transition or flow… kind of like my personal favorite: https://www.slideshare.net/jasonalba/i-just-got-fired
This presentation tells a story in slides without the need of a narrator.
If I were in front of an audience, though, I would not use that slidedeck…
Jason I agree that a slide show with a talk accompanying it might be better if it is briefer than a slide show w/out a talk.
However, I don’t think that my modifications make this one less stand alone.
I think they take the ideas presented (nothing different) and make it more readable / viewable.
Actually, there is no point to have a stand alone slide show instead of an article unless there are great pictures.
I know this is a good topic because I just went for coffee with one of my Twitter acquaintances and we talked about it
Sorry for being a bit late to the discussion here, but had to share my thoughts on this (from last year) about wanting to start a National No Brain Picking List which includes a fun graphic and links to posts by others on the topic:
https://belladomain.wordpress.com/2010/04/06/are-you-on-the-national-no-brain-picking-list/
Also, I found that offering an introductory rate, via what I called a 50-4-50 offer, helped weed-out the confused and even turned into lead generation for a few awesome new consulting clients:
https://belladomain.wordpress.com/2010/05/12/please-pick-my-brain-for-a-fee/
Glad you’re keeping this brain-picking topic alive Jason! Sandy
Enjoyed the post. Let’s turn it around the other way.
If YOU were the one asking, say, for information about a company, its culture, its challenges, its industry (to determine if you wanted to work there) you would need to take up someone’s valuable time.
In the interest of true networking, What could the “asker” offer the busy professional that may be of interest and use, in return for her/his time? What types of things would be valuable to the professional that a job searcher could reasonably offer?
Sheila, Thanks for spreading this idea around – I am a true Networker- Love to be in front of others and then meet 1 on 1. This show gives some points to keep in the back of my mind when I am asking for a 1 on 1 and why some people may never say yes.
I do agree that the slideshow is busy – I think it’s important to keep slides short and sweet. Get to the point and bring the value of that point to the forefront.
However- I don’t agree with all of the detailed changes that Animal said – I think that he simply has too much time on his hands to critique on that level. I am sure he meant well but their is some tact that needs to be given and a level of assumed respect when you are giving feedback of that nature.
Have an awesome day!
Fred
No good deed goes unpunished