One of the best ways to know you know your material is to share it with others. This activity requires you to summarize your thinking in clear and succinct terms.
You must then right order the content for it to flow and unfold like a story. Finally, there will likely be questions. Some questions can be anticipated and prepared for, but others will test your competency on the topic.
Information Delivery takes place in many ways: coaching, teaching, tutoring, mentoring, presenting, and writing.
These each have specific attributes. Some are one to one engagements while others are one to many. There are live events or recorded on video or in writing. Finally, the relationships between the lead and audience differ from a close personal one to no relationship.
Ideally engagement will occur by all parties to foster growth and understanding of the topic.
A great example for me took place at Oxonmoot, the Annual Conference of the Tolkien Society. I was online for the event and watching a presentation on leadership principles demonstrated by characters in the stories.
At the end the presenter included his contact information. I sent him an email with some comments and questions. We exchanged several emails, he forwarded to me some journal articles he wrote, I invited him to join the 2nd Breakfast Smial of Pennsylvania, which he did. When his book on Leadership and Tolkien was published he included me by name in the author acknowledgements, which I thought was overly generous and later that year we conducted the first co-presentation at Oxonmoot with one person on site and one remote.
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