First Time Speech at the Conference

    The knowledge of typical mistakes makes beginners get more nervous, and after the report makes them more motivated to scold themselves. Therefore, I will not talk about mistakes, but I will give obvious theses that not everyone thinks of. I always say this to people who are going to speak for the first time, right after the story of how to prepare at all .

    • Do not bother with a catchy name.
    • The audience does not know what exactly and how you are going to tell.
    • The speaker is not a servant of the audience.
    • You are giving a talk to those in the audience right now.
    • Speak to the audience the rules for answering questions that are convenient for you. Follow them.
    • Record the results of the performance - within 3 days after the event.

    Further, a little more detail about each item.

    Do not bother with the catchy name

    On prof. There are many unprofessional speakers at conferences, so a good, catchy name increases appeal, but the converse is not true. Plus, the audience may have high expectations. The general principle is that the more experience and material, the more attention is paid to details such as the name.

    The audience does not know what exactly and how you are going to tell.

    You do not need to skip slides with the words “Oh, I don’t fit here. It’s not so important ”(“ If it doesn’t matter, why did you turn it on? ”) - it looks fussy and distracting. The audience does not know how much you will show slides and how, so you can change several in the process of telling one slide, such as it should be.

    The speaker is not the servant of the audience

    The first task of the speaker is to read the report in the best way (it depends only on him), the second is for the audience to accept the report (here a fair amount of luck, because we are talking about the first performances). One way is less dependent on the mood of the audience: to tell one person in the hall. Quickly choose a victim and talk to her, it is better to plant such a person.
    Example: a good diploma scientist who demonstrates attention and nods at difficult moments.
    None of the professional speakers will change the technical / professional report unless they reach the audience. It is better to read the report past the audience than to read the report past the audience.

    You are telling to those in the room right now

    If people come out, this is not an indicator that you are doing something wrong. This suggests that they did not hear what they expected, wanted to have a bite to eat on the toilet, and another million reasons. All of them are not about how you perform. Entrance-exit is a completely normal situation, parallel sections often go, so people migrate. Do not worry. Somehow 3/4 of the audience came out at the beginning of the report, however, it turned out well.

    Speak to the audience the rules for answering questions that are convenient for you. Follow their

    rules, it is advisable to voice immediately. Rules for exit / entry, questions, use of the phone. Example:
    "Hello, my name is…. I ask, if possible, to remember and write down the questions that arise during your speech, I will be happy to answer them at the end or on the sidelines. I’ll also ask you to go out to talk on the phone. ”
    It is possible, if the audience is seething with questions, to envisage several sessions after the key blocks. And to voice it - "I look at a lot of questions, let me finish talking about ... and answer 3-4 questions."

    Record the results of the performance - within 3 days after the event

    Give feedback to yourself on the performance. People are rarely happy with their first performance, you need to understand what was really good and what was not as expected. Write down what went well and what you didn’t like on the contrary. These notes can and should be shown to make it easier for your friends to give positive feedback. You can simply write a note in the social. networks for friends to support you. Your notes are a great help in preparing your next speech, these are your advice to yourself.

    As soon as you have finished your first presentation, you become an orator and then begin to improve yourself. The speaker, based on feedback to himself, chooses the direction of development, here I will not advise.

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