Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Mentor tips #2

1. What is the pitch of your presentation? Ie what are the ideas you want to bring across?

2. Every slide, 1 main message

3. If too wordy, can say "let me navigate through this slide with you" or "let me go through this slide with you" to control the audience or if not the visual ones will read the content without listening to you + prevent them from going all over the place.

4. Practise in front of the mirror, and walk around the space to familarise the script more. Script can be at the back of your mind but you must be able to say the content in speaking language.

5. Go to the venue earlier to familarise yourself with the environment so that you'll be less fearful

6. Be confident when talking and that is only through practice

7. In her opinion, it's not the length of the message that matters, but the intensity ie pauses so that the listener can talk. The words cannot be too lengthy or it'll be difficult to digest. So when comparing, you can point out "what is the difference between these two? One is lengthy, harder to digest while the other one is short but intensive tone". Something along the lines.

8. Maintain eye contact when u pace a little.

9. Be unconventional ie 30 s about yourself

10. Meaningful pictures can be integrated into the slides

11. What is the effectiveness of this platform and the impact?

12. Tie your hair if you think the wind will make your hair messy. Think of all these little things to make a better presentation.

13. You can end off with what you believe in ie happiness so you make the ending slide short and sweet

14. Ask questions at the start to create tension. Think of the topic ie gender equality then generate questions ie have you ever felt that you were treated unfairly?

15. Can include experience specific to yourself ie this is what I experienced

16. Depending on the context ie lunchtime talk so content is light

17. Come up with a storyboard and a picture and pitch before doing slides and then script

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