Tips on How To Give A Great Talk

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Tips on How To Give A Great Talk

• Louis Hugo Francescutti
• MD, PhD, MPH, FRCPC
• University of Alberta

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Golden Rule of Telling

• Tell them what you are going to say
• Tell them
• Tell them what you said

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Start and End

• Start on time respect the audience
• End ahead of time
• Question period is the best part of a talk

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Worse Times to Speak

• Just before lunch
• Last talk of the day
• If following an excellent speaker
• Introduce them as your opening act
• Never say, What a hard act to follow!

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Turn On Your Audience

• You have about 15 seconds
• Audiences decide very early if they like you
• Make sure you engage them early
• Show them that you like them

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Can They Hear You?

• Project your voice
• Better still, use a microphone
• Look at the audience
• Use eye contact early
• Do not talk to the screen
• Do not talk to your feet

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What Are They Seeing?

• Do not overdress
• Do not under dress
• Do not undress

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Did Your Mom Tell You

• No one has to come and listen to you
• Do not waste the audiences time
• Show some passion and energy
• Do not apologize for being nervous
• This turns people off very quickly

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Typeface

• Use a serif typeface
• This is serif
• This is sans serif

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Bolding and CAPS

• Bolding can become distracting
• Italics can be used effectively
• NEVER CAPITALIZE ALL YOUR SLIDES
• IT IS TOO HARD TO READ ALL CAPS

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Fonts

• This is 8 font can you see it
• This is 10 font can you see it
• This is 14 font can you see it
• This is 20 font can you see it
• This is 32 font can you see it
• This is 40 font can you see it
• This is 54 font can you see it

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Speling and Grammer

• Make suure that its corect
• Creddibility is lost if spellin is bad
• Have anuther persen cheque it
• Spel chek their and there

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Stick to the Rule of Seven

• No more than seven lines per slide
• No more than seven words per line

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Forget the Gimmicks

• This drives most people nuts
• It is very distracting
• It proves you are an amateur
• Your message will get lost
• It is a crutch for a weak talk

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Color Deficiency

• Do not use red and green together
• 7-9 of the male and 1-2 of the female
  population are color deficient
• Colors red and orange are confused with green and
  yellow

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Take Comfort In Knowing

• You are the expert
• You probably know more than anyone else
• But remember
• An expert somehow is always in the audience
• Be Humble

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Do Not Read

• Please do not read every sentence
• Or worse still read speaking notes
• It is boring and rude
• You will loose your audience

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Introductory Joke

• Do not use for the sake of a joke
• You can fall flat on your face
• It can throw you off
• If you must tell a joke
• Keep it clean
• Non-racist or sexist
• Keep it simple
• Test it out first

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Share A Bit About Yourself

• People are curious
• They want to know a little about you
• Do not go overboard
• Show them you are human
• Make the connection early

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Dont Ever Say

• I know that you cannot read this slide
• If they cannot read it
• Well, then do not show it
• Simple as that!

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Graphs and Charts

• Keep them simple
• Label them clearly
• Take the time to explain them
• What is the key point

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Include sources
Check for errors
Do not cut and paste
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One Thing

• No matter how good a speaker you are
• People will at best only remember one thing
• Repeat that message at least eight times

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Hecklers and Clowns

• Identify and control them early
• They like to hear themselves
• They have no questions
• They can be disruptive

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Human Nature

• People can only listen for twenty minutes, if you
  are real good
• People need a road map
• People need biological breaks

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Simple Rules of Thumb

• One slide per minute
• One point per slide
• One theme per presentation
• One speaker at a time
• One screen at a time

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The Chalk

• Be prepared to just talk
• If it can screw up it will
• Have backup overheads
• Have a CD-ROM with talk on it

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Power Point Fancy Stuff

• Hit the b key to blank the screen
• Hit the w key for a white screen
• Remember key slide numbers
• Type the number on the keyboard
• Hit enter and voila

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More Fancy Power Point Stuff

• Ctrl and p turns the arrow into a pen
• e erases the markings
• Ctrl a goes back to arrow
• Or simply go to help screen

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Tell Them What You Said

• Review the points that you made
• Reinforce the key message
• Let in question period
• Be available after the presentation

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Thank You

• Thank whoever introduced you
• Thank the conference organizers
• Thank the moderators
• You cannot thank enough people

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Evaluate Yourself

• Set your goals high
• Make sure you get an evaluation
• Learn from the evaluation
• Set new goals

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