My notes from a Youtube video about public speaking (translated from Polish). What are differences in delivering a speech to a mixed audience of technical and business individuals?
Falstart mistakes 5:20
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Framing
Stop making excuses at the very start on how unprepared you are, that you have poor slide design skills, other bullshit
Instead, remember that you own the truth, it will be like you say -
I, I and I only
People don’t want to hear about how cool you are, spending the whole presentation on “I did this” is a way to disaster
Instead, focus on speaking about the audience, focus on people and their problems -
Closed body language
Closed body language informs others that you’re afraid
Some people become aggressive when they feel stressed out
Instead, imagine you generously share sweets (knowledge) with others -
Environment
Try to be close to the audience, don’t use academic preaching pulpits
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What am I doing here?
Explain why should people care about your presentation
Identify and change your emotions 9:00
- It’s normal to get negative emotions
- It’s important to be aware, identify those emotions and name it
- Find a reason why you feel how you feel
What is your goal 11:00
- Challenge
- Desire to speak/share
- Evangelization
- Selling
- Something else?
Prepare the speech 11:30
- Use a mindmap to describe and link all thoughts
- Sometime before the talk, put all tags on a timeline
Self-confidence 12:00
- Don’t think you’re the most important person on a planet: if you don’t control nuclear rockets, you are not
- Have achievable goals. Goals like “I want to be liked / I want to be well received” diminish your self-confidence. You can’t control or influence others
Style 14:20
| Identification | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Emotional arguments | Evangelist | Mr. Whatever |
| big ideas, generalizes, mister obvious | humourous, cynic, talks like doesn’t care | |
| Rational arguments | Director | Profesor |
| short sentences, has a plan, doesn’t listen, doesn’t accept NO | speaks slowly, reflective, different perspectives, wants to educate, not convince |
- Tip #1: People like different styles
- Tip #2: Mix styles during presentation
Have a story 19:00
- Define a hero
- Make me care
- Use storytelling tricks “once upon a time…” etc.
- Show speech plan, path, and current position
- Three elements structure is the most popular and best received
- People have approx. 40 sec. attention windows
Knowledge levels 23:30
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Basics
Explain terms and rules; let them digest basic information
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Information
Introduce how to use specific information to solve a problem
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Skills
Showcase opportunities to solve various problems
Once you push all levels step by step, you’ll get an extra, 4th level:
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Innovations
Understand what’s going on and why; push the boundaries
Intro to audiences 25:40
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Technical
Like facts, diagrams, a lot of details give them perception they understood something
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Business
Splits into different groups, e.g. manager (wishes to control everyone and everything), businessman (visionary, identifies opportunities)
Metaprogramming (cognitive habits) 27:00
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Attitude
Goal oriented <> Avoiding problems
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Description
General <> Details
Similarities <> Differences -
Authority
Internal <> External
NLP game 30:20
People differently perceive time. In NLP there are categories of “in time”’, “through time” and “in between time”
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In time
Imagines himself doing something at a specific time, with details
Majority of software developers tend to be in time
People want to know first step, not interested in later and unknown steps (carpe diem) -
Through time
Common time perception among business people
Imagines himself as an actor, sees in snapshots
Can’t start working if there’s no a plan with defined goals -
In between time
Architect personality
Requires many alternatives to get started