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If there really, really isn’t anything like that — and “Security and Enforcement in the Cayman Islands” may be just that topic, then consider: ''why are you giving a seminar about something so dull in the first place?'' Who needs to know? [[Cui bono|Who benefits]]? What will you, or anyone else, get out of it? Will it really lead to a flood of instructions? | If there really, really isn’t anything like that — and “Security and Enforcement in the Cayman Islands” may be just that topic, then consider: ''why are you giving a seminar about something so dull in the first place?'' Who needs to know? [[Cui bono|Who benefits]]? What will you, or anyone else, get out of it? Will it really lead to a flood of instructions? | ||
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Encourage questions. Get a dialogue going — dialogue equals engagement — but realise that, in doing so (i) you may wander off your own agenda (and this may be no bad thing, if your agenda is as dull as it is likely to be) and (ii) you may get random questions about things you don’t expect, ''especially if you have a dull agenda'', since no one will have been paying attention, and they may be asking questions just out of politeness, and to reassure you that the hour you have just spent was not quite as wasteful for everyone as it in fact has been. Whatever you do, don’t ''ever say, “well, I’m not an expert, but —”. '' | ''Encourage'' questions. Get a dialogue going — dialogue equals engagement — but realise that, in doing so (i) you may wander off your own agenda (and this may be no bad thing, if your agenda is as dull as it is likely to be) and (ii) you may get random questions about things you don’t expect, ''especially if you have a dull agenda'', since no one will have been paying attention, and they may be asking questions just out of politeness, and to reassure you that the hour you have just spent was not quite as wasteful for everyone as it in fact has been. Whatever you do, don’t ''ever say, “well, I’m not an expert, but —”. '' | ||
Remember what ''your audience'' wants and what ''you'' want, and be careful not to ''invert'' them. What your audience wants is to be entertained, first, and enlightened, second | Remember what ''your audience'' wants and what ''you'' want, and be careful not to ''invert'' them. What your audience wants is to be entertained, first, and enlightened, second — but enlightenment, not entertainment, is the optional extra. An audience will not begrudge an entertaining hour, even it learns nothing. It will ''deeply'' resent an hour of needless [[tedium]]. What *YOU* want is for your audience to think: hey she’s pretty neat. She’d be fun to work with (first) and hey — she knows tons about the regulatory environment post Brexit (second). She is definitely who I will call! | ||
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*[[Magic circle]] | *[[Tedium]] | ||
*[[Private practice]] | *[[Magic circle law firm]] | ||
*[[Private practice lawyer]] | |||
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