Speed
30 minute speaking slot
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Pause
Lets you take a breath
Lets your audience take a breath
A pause feels like a lifetime to you on stage
Mistaeks happen
Finding your style
RESEARCH
Someone at work whose presentations you enjoy?
RESEARCH
Someone at work whose presentations you enjoy?
People presenting ideas on YouTube
Documentaries on TV
A talk you remember from a conference/event/etc?
PRACTICE
2 people in a weekly team meeting
20 people in a Thread lunch & learn
60 people at the All-hands
8 people in a values meeting group
SLIDES
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Who are slides for?
The speaker
The audience
The audience is there to listen more than read.
Keep slides light
One of the worst things you can do is put too much information on the screen.
Your audience will stop listening to you because they are too busy reading what's on the screen behind you.
And the thing is, the audience can read much quicker than you can speak, so by this point you're busy speaking and your audience is bored and their attention has gone back to what CityPantry are delivering for lunch tomorrow.
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a great story
diagrams can enhance your story
focus on what's really important
make everything
BIGGER
than you think
Don't rely on the bottom of the slide
danger zone
PREPARING FOR / ON THE BIG DAY
Rehearse, but not too many times
DON'T SPEAK
OVER YOURSELF
➡️ Go slower than you think and pause more
➡️ Practice and experiment to find your style
➡️ Slides are more for you: tell the story
➡️ Rehearse but keep some room for improv
➡️ Use (and practice using!) a clicker