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Date: This event took place live on December 02 2009
Presented by: Scott Berkun His blog: www.scottberkun.com/blog
Feels he is not a natural born speaker, it is just he does it a lot because of his books.
Practice.
- Afraid of the crowd - valium is a bad idea..... Amygdala in the brain controls the reactions of fear.
- Eliminate issues under your control by showing up early and checking things
- Arrive early and sit in back, and see how the audience will see you
- Don't arrive 10 minutes before the presentation and then start working on your slides.
- Exercise and get all the energy out so the adrenaline is released
- Know your subject
- Practice with your remote
- Don't talk to your slides, it shows you aren't sure of yourself
- Practice slides and material until it's good
- People generally can only pay attention for approximately 5-10 minutes on any one subject.
- People are likely to pay longer attention to something they are interested in.
- Chunk it. It isn't by the number of slides, it is about the time needed to talk about the item
- Can make anything boring by:
- Long-winded
- too much detail
- not realizing the important part of the story
- assuming the part the speaker finds interesting is the part the audience finds interesting.
- finding the subject you are talking about boring
- not make sure your angle is interesting to your audience
- Smart people disease
- using words that others don't understand, hoping to end the argument that way (TKO)
- complex language - defensive way to teach/lead
- takes effort to make points clear and concise
- afraid to allow questions in case they don't know the answer
- Pushes people away and
- Find a rhythm so people can follow
- and my favorite "the slides serve what you are saying
