You’ve mastered the first rule and have submitted a session to present at a SQLSaturday, local user group or at your office, excellent. Your presentation is written, all the details are there…slides, demos and you’ve got your patter. You’ve followed the second rule and the presentation is all you. What’s next? Practice makes perfect Time…
Tag: Professional Development
Speakers Second Rule
After writing a post for Un-SQL Friday on the first rule of speaking I decided that it would make quite a good series of posts, so here’s my second rule of speaking: Find your own voice What do I mean by this? As an analogy when I first started out blogging I tried to emulate…
Un-SQL Friday #004–Speakers First Rule
I may be a day late and a dollar short for Un-SQL Friday #004: Speaker Lessons Learned but still felt I had something to share. One of my favorite book series is The Sword of Truth by Terry Goodkind. The first of the 11 book series is called Wizards First Rule. It’s one of those…
How To Interview–A Quick Guide
This post was originally going to be called “Interview Dos and Dont’s” but I didn’t want it to get confused with interviewing on DOS, or to start a grammar war on the use of Do’s or Dos. I had the chance to interview a couple of candidates for a senior developer position today. Each one…
T-SQL Tuesday #13–A Mysterious Business
It’s T-SQL Tuesday again and Steve Jones (blog|twitter), Mr SQLServerCentral, is hosting this month. Steve has provided a topic that is near and dear to the heart of pretty much every DBA – “What issues have you had in interacting with the business to get your job done”. I really didn’t know what I could possibly…