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re: "Speaking to large groups" knower abouters
Posted on 11/4/22 at 9:47 am to tigerfan311
Posted on 11/4/22 at 9:47 am to tigerfan311
Kidding. Great advice in this thread.
You know the material, you will do great. Don’t forget to take a PSD.
You know the material, you will do great. Don’t forget to take a PSD.
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Posted on 11/4/22 at 9:51 am to Naked Bootleg
Imagine you are speaking to only a few people.
Pick out a few faces in the larger crowd to direct your attention to during the course of your presentation.
Try to avoid a death grip on the podium if you can.
Make a test run with your A/V (PowerPoint and mike). Make sure you have it dialed in to avoid mishaps and extended silences.
Pick out a few faces in the larger crowd to direct your attention to during the course of your presentation.
Try to avoid a death grip on the podium if you can.
Make a test run with your A/V (PowerPoint and mike). Make sure you have it dialed in to avoid mishaps and extended silences.
Posted on 11/4/22 at 9:58 am to Naked Bootleg
I have to do this regularly, even have done a local TED talk a couple times. Trust me everyone is nervous in this situation and everyone in the audience know you're nervous as well, just like they would be. Don't be afraid to lean into it!
Sometimes if I start to feel like I'm getting nervous and feel like it might affect my performance, I'll say something jovially like "wow, there's a lot of you! This must be important. No pressure up here at all." It can put everyone at ease, especially yourself.
A lot of folks have said practice. YES! Do this and time your presentation. Over and over. You want to know the material enough that you can go off the cuff at times and then come back to the material comfortably.
Remember to go slowly, when people are nervous they tend to speed up. Speak easily and deliberately. Watch old Steve Jobs presentations, he would take comfortable long pauses. I used to work with a woman who directly worked with him on his presentation and she often talked about his level of preparation and how he would remind himself to pause and create space for the audience.
Tell yourself over and over, that you are excited to present and you are just having a casual conversation. I'm sure you've seen mechanical presenters, you don't want to be there. You are just having a conversation and the "deck" is the subject. Don't be afraid to have some direct contact with individuals in the audience as part of that conversation.
If you slip up, acknowledge it, laugh it off and rewind. People understand that presenting it tough and part of smooth presentation is the ability to laugh off the mistakes. Especially if you're dealing with numbers.
Last and most importantly, tell a story, don't read from the deck. Everyone can read the deck, your job is to craft a narrative that isn't in the deck. Tell the story of success, risk, obstacles in a way that references the material that they can read for themselves. This is where you personally add value to the presentation.
Good luck! Everyone gets nervous about this kind of thing. The audience is with you, not against you!
Sometimes if I start to feel like I'm getting nervous and feel like it might affect my performance, I'll say something jovially like "wow, there's a lot of you! This must be important. No pressure up here at all." It can put everyone at ease, especially yourself.
A lot of folks have said practice. YES! Do this and time your presentation. Over and over. You want to know the material enough that you can go off the cuff at times and then come back to the material comfortably.
Remember to go slowly, when people are nervous they tend to speed up. Speak easily and deliberately. Watch old Steve Jobs presentations, he would take comfortable long pauses. I used to work with a woman who directly worked with him on his presentation and she often talked about his level of preparation and how he would remind himself to pause and create space for the audience.
Tell yourself over and over, that you are excited to present and you are just having a casual conversation. I'm sure you've seen mechanical presenters, you don't want to be there. You are just having a conversation and the "deck" is the subject. Don't be afraid to have some direct contact with individuals in the audience as part of that conversation.
If you slip up, acknowledge it, laugh it off and rewind. People understand that presenting it tough and part of smooth presentation is the ability to laugh off the mistakes. Especially if you're dealing with numbers.
Last and most importantly, tell a story, don't read from the deck. Everyone can read the deck, your job is to craft a narrative that isn't in the deck. Tell the story of success, risk, obstacles in a way that references the material that they can read for themselves. This is where you personally add value to the presentation.
Good luck! Everyone gets nervous about this kind of thing. The audience is with you, not against you!
This post was edited on 11/4/22 at 10:02 am
Posted on 11/4/22 at 10:16 am to Aguga
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don’t read the PP
This. Nothing sucks more than someone putting a slide up and then reading it verbatim. We can all read.
Posted on 11/18/22 at 7:42 am to tigergirl10
The presentation was Wednesday. Being my first time, “practice, practice, practice” was the most common advice and far more critical than I can express. Early on, I thought I’d just nail down the slides’ content and free-flow it. Now I know, that would have been a disaster..
I had to rely on what I’d memorized through practice because once I heard my own voice coming through the loudspeakers, I had to go into autopilot. Almost froze up there for a second. You know how sometimes you hear your voice on a recording and it doesn’t really sound like you? That, x100.
We added a couple additional presenters at the last minute so I had to boil some things down, which put some pressure on me but I somehow pulled it off. Watching the recording… I wish I would have boiled down different topics than the ones I chose to, but what’s funny is - right after I was finished, I couldn’t remember a damn thing I said up there.
Someone said “Transitions” - for real! A flat transition will shake your confidence. I experimented and practiced transitions as much as my material.
Now that I know what to expect, I’ll be much better off next time. Thanks to all who kindly gave advice, it all made sense and I can’t thank y’all enough. Really appreciate it
I had to rely on what I’d memorized through practice because once I heard my own voice coming through the loudspeakers, I had to go into autopilot. Almost froze up there for a second. You know how sometimes you hear your voice on a recording and it doesn’t really sound like you? That, x100.
We added a couple additional presenters at the last minute so I had to boil some things down, which put some pressure on me but I somehow pulled it off. Watching the recording… I wish I would have boiled down different topics than the ones I chose to, but what’s funny is - right after I was finished, I couldn’t remember a damn thing I said up there.
Someone said “Transitions” - for real! A flat transition will shake your confidence. I experimented and practiced transitions as much as my material.
Now that I know what to expect, I’ll be much better off next time. Thanks to all who kindly gave advice, it all made sense and I can’t thank y’all enough. Really appreciate it
Posted on 11/18/22 at 7:45 am to TexasTiger33
Only do this if you are good at humor.
ETA: congrats! I remember I hated to even introduce myself in groups for a while. A few thousand presentations later and it has become so natural.
ETA: congrats! I remember I hated to even introduce myself in groups for a while. A few thousand presentations later and it has become so natural.
This post was edited on 11/18/22 at 7:58 am
Posted on 11/18/22 at 7:47 am to Naked Bootleg
My ex was in PA school and said propranolol works great if you have a “physical” reaction to it.
My heart rate gets very high and breathing out of whack at times
My heart rate gets very high and breathing out of whack at times
Posted on 11/18/22 at 8:05 am to Naked Bootleg
Glad to hear it went well.
I wasn’t lying.
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right after I was finished, I couldn’t remember a damn thing I said up there.
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All you have to do is get started. After that the adrenaline kicks in and it’ll be over before you know it. Especially if you’re only talking for 20 minutes and you know this stuff we’ll.
I wasn’t lying.
Posted on 11/18/22 at 8:08 am to go_tigres
What was it they always say to do ? Imagine they are naked...no - imagine YOU are naked... umm, no... you actually do the speech naked..... ? 
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