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Public Speaking --- https://youtu.be/Unzc731iCUY structure be very explicit about the structure of a talk. here's what I'll talk about and here is what you'll learn by listening. let's start with [...]. now, [...]. alright so that's all for [...]. let's now discuss [...] verbal punctuation can be used to convey structure. it also nonverbally tells people who fogged out it's a good time to join back in explicitly link concepts and ideas together instead of listing them examples start with an empowerment promise. explain why people are listening to you when using slides, mention the title verbally instead of cluttering the slides with it use linking words when jumping from one idea to the next introduce and wrap up each point with an introduction and a conclusion nonverbals see nonverbal keep visual contact with the audience speaker confidence look like someone confident and comfortable examples study the room beforehand to be comfortable with it walk around and look around to show confidence show your hands and use them to demonstrate concepts look passionate towards the subject you are talking about (duplicate) artificial interest trick people into being interested through nonverbals examples talk in a well-lit room to keep people fully awake and connected make sure the room is populated to make the talk seem desirable ask questions and rhetorical questions to get people to engage empathetic mirroring make people feel what you are feeling by exploiting empathetic mirroring examples write on a chalk board manually to make people understand the importance of a concept use real-life examples and anecdotes allow people to connect use props and strong visuals to enhance the empathetic effects look passionate towards the subject you are talking about (duplicate) other facts a joke is not a great way to start a talk as most people are still settling in and getting used to your way of speaking. they likely won't laugh at it after asking a question, wait around 7 seconds for an answer from the audience flipping through slides can be too quick for people. the speed at which one writes on a chalkboard is approximately the speed at which people absorb information most only remember a few key takeaways; make them count see verbal› connotations other tools use repetition and examples to convey the importance of some information build a fence around your ideas to distinguish them from somebody else's ideas use slides as a visual complement to your ideas bad practices using slides incorrectly: https://youtu.be/Unzc731iCUY?t=1530 bad final slide: https://youtu.be/Unzc731iCUY?t=3268
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Public Speaking

structure

be very explicit about the structure of a talk.

here's what I'll talk about and here is what you'll learn by listening. let's start with [...]. now, [...]. alright so that's all for [...]. let's now discuss [...]

verbal punctuation can be used to convey structure. it also nonverbally tells people who fogged out it's a good time to join back in

explicitly link concepts and ideas together instead of listing them

examples

start with an empowerment promise. explain why people are listening to you

when using slides, mention the title verbally instead of cluttering the slides with it

use linking words when jumping from one idea to the next

introduce and wrap up each point with an introduction and a conclusion

nonverbals

see nonverbal

keep visual contact with the audience

speaker confidence

look like someone confident and comfortable

examples

study the room beforehand to be comfortable with it

walk around and look around to show confidence

show your hands and use them to demonstrate concepts

look passionate towards the subject you are talking about (duplicate)

artificial interest

trick people into being interested through nonverbals

examples

talk in a well-lit room to keep people fully awake and connected

make sure the room is populated to make the talk seem desirable

ask questions and rhetorical questions to get people to engage

empathetic mirroring

make people feel what you are feeling by exploiting empathetic mirroring

examples

write on a chalk board manually to make people understand the importance of a concept

use real-life examples and anecdotes allow people to connect

use props and strong visuals to enhance the empathetic effects

look passionate towards the subject you are talking about (duplicate)

other

facts

a joke is not a great way to start a talk as most people are still settling in and getting used to your way of speaking. they likely won't laugh at it

after asking a question, wait around 7 seconds for an answer from the audience

flipping through slides can be too quick for people. the speed at which one writes on a chalkboard is approximately the speed at which people absorb information

most only remember a few key takeaways; make them count

see verbal› connotations

other tools

use repetition and examples to convey the importance of some information

build a fence around your ideas to distinguish them from somebody else's ideas

use slides as a visual complement to your ideas

bad practices

using slides incorrectly: https://youtu.be/Unzc731iCUY?t=1530

bad final slide: https://youtu.be/Unzc731iCUY?t=3268