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Rich Niemiec, TUSC, Step Outside the Box: Giving GREAT Presentations!
Presenter: Rich Niemiec, TUSC
Topic: Step Outside the Box: Giving GREAT Presentations!
Starts by asking, what do you like when you sit on your couch. Crowd: chips, beer. Hands out chips, peanuts etc.
Ok to leave cell phones, pagers on.
First presentation he ever gave, they sent the tape. Asked his wife how it was (she's not technical). He thought it was great. She said it was so dead boring, he'd make their children watch it if they ever misbehaved.
Realized: can't just read the slides, must work on your pitch.
Started with no speaking experience.
Then joined the Marines, got some experience.
Before you go national, go local first (to rehearse).
For international, speed had to be much slowers (10 slides instead of 200).
Goals for today:
* Overview of my presentation tips in a tip by tip structure
* Gain tips to take your presentations from ok to good or good to great.
Non-goals:
* Learning presentation basics.
If you're bad now, you can get great!
* Great presentations are painful to build. Hard to do.
* 3 things to remember
- Care about the audience
- Use visuals to get them to remember. Words are almost never enough. Use images.
- Teach to multiple levels and repeat things.
* You will do great things if you care!
If you listen to all of this intently you will become great at presenting.
Just resting?
Why did they really come?
You have to care to help!
Don't bve too prepared or you won't adjust if needed to the audeince. But, dont' change the presentation if there is already a handout (make sure they can read it)!
Selling your product is a turnoff.
If the speaker or audiene is of a differnet first langauge, speak much slower and user simple words.
Can you help them all?
Do you feel their pain?
The BLUR in our Industry
Some remarks about something.
Gives some examples of good and not so good titles.
Many people will not read the absttract. Will the title describe what they 'll expect to hear?
Will the title draw them in?
Make the Title Descriptive
Tuning
Tuning Tips
...
Oracle 10g Query Tuning Tips Used by the Experts
Know the material.
Save stuff you're (still) uncomfortable with and leave it for the next version of the presentation.
Dont' just read the slides.
If you cover too much material, then yuo may have questinos that you can't answer.
Shows funny pictures of people nodding off, glazing over etc.
(As more people join the presentation, asking for why they came, whether they want chips etc.)
How do we know people aren't listening?
Looking down
Rubbing their face.
Heavy sighing.
Scanning across the room.
Checking email.
Most important thing when you start: pulling people in! They are coming from all kinds of different places. Pull them out of their world into your world. They have a lot on their mind.
Gives examples for introductions for different times/talks.
Have a theme throughout if possible.
Examples:
Schwarzenegger, Cricket (Pakistan)
You can always try to tie things in using people, images, history, quotes etc.
Use image to show example, underscoring the text.
Explain acronyms
...
...
TPC-H
(welcomes new attendess, throws candy into audience)
Sometimes, 1 graph is not as good as 3 (if you want to show change over time, for instance)
Tie illustrations to themes and ideas to enegize them.
E.g. how Amazon does it.
...
Using graphics, screenshots etc.
...
A 4MB picture is actually worth 100k words. ;-)
Shows example of 1 exa-penny.
16 exabytes of paper would go all the way to Pluto.
Read , listen, see ,do
E.g. the "easy button"
Take questions. Repeat a question. Make sure not to answer the wrong question.
...
Practice!
Rehearse against the clock (too slow, too fast, nice to everyone?)
...
Tip #32 -- Summary and references
...
Tip #33 -- ...
Make the point-
Illustrate comparisons that are the same and are different. Show how things don't work!
Demonstration slotiions and options.
Use multiple techniques to clarify ideas.Use multiple levels such as drill down to focus concepts and
demoonstrate processes.
Sequencing ideas is imporatnt in longer presentations.
Make backups. Don't over prepare
Topic: Step Outside the Box: Giving GREAT Presentations!
Slides
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Starts by asking, what do you like when you sit on your couch. Crowd: chips, beer. Hands out chips, peanuts etc.
Ok to leave cell phones, pagers on.
First presentation he ever gave, they sent the tape. Asked his wife how it was (she's not technical). He thought it was great. She said it was so dead boring, he'd make their children watch it if they ever misbehaved.
Realized: can't just read the slides, must work on your pitch.
Started with no speaking experience.
Then joined the Marines, got some experience.
Before you go national, go local first (to rehearse).
For international, speed had to be much slowers (10 slides instead of 200).
Goals for today:
* Overview of my presentation tips in a tip by tip structure
* Gain tips to take your presentations from ok to good or good to great.
Non-goals:
* Learning presentation basics.
If you're bad now, you can get great!
Overview
* Great presentations are painful to build. Hard to do.
* 3 things to remember
- Care about the audience
- Use visuals to get them to remember. Words are almost never enough. Use images.
- Teach to multiple levels and repeat things.
* You will do great things if you care!
If you listen to all of this intently you will become great at presenting.
Why is the audience here?
Just resting?
Why did they really come?
You have to care to help!
Don't bve too prepared or you won't adjust if needed to the audeince. But, dont' change the presentation if there is already a handout (make sure they can read it)!
Selling your product is a turnoff.
If the speaker or audiene is of a differnet first langauge, speak much slower and user simple words.
Can you help them all?
Do you feel their pain?
The BLUR in our Industry
Some remarks about something.
Tip #2 -- The Presentation Title thouls be intutitive
Gives some examples of good and not so good titles.
Many people will not read the absttract. Will the title describe what they 'll expect to hear?
Will the title draw them in?
Make the Title Descriptive
Tuning
Tuning Tips
...
Oracle 10g Query Tuning Tips Used by the Experts
Tip #3 -- Know your Stuff
Know the material.
Save stuff you're (still) uncomfortable with and leave it for the next version of the presentation.
Dont' just read the slides.
If you cover too much material, then yuo may have questinos that you can't answer.
Tip #4 -- Don't be monotone!
Shows funny pictures of people nodding off, glazing over etc.
(As more people join the presentation, asking for why they came, whether they want chips etc.)
How do we know people aren't listening?
Looking down
Rubbing their face.
Heavy sighing.
Scanning across the room.
Checking email.
Tip #5 -- The Introduction
Most important thing when you start: pulling people in! They are coming from all kinds of different places. Pull them out of their world into your world. They have a lot on their mind.
Gives examples for introductions for different times/talks.
Tip #6 -- Have a theme!
Have a theme throughout if possible.
Examples:
Schwarzenegger, Cricket (Pakistan)
Tip #7 -- Localize things to the Audience
Use of quotes can be helpful to put things into context.You can always try to tie things in using people, images, history, quotes etc.
Use image to show example, underscoring the text.
Explain acronyms
Tip #8 -- Show the solution (?)
...
Tip #9 -- ...
...
TPC-H
(welcomes new attendess, throws candy into audience)
Sometimes, 1 graph is not as good as 3 (if you want to show change over time, for instance)
Tip #12 -- Show things in an animated way (?)
Tie illustrations to themes and ideas to enegize them.
Tip #13 -- Have a BIG name company example.
E.g. how Amazon does it.
Tip #14 ...
...
Tip #15 -- Teach to different levels (?)
...Tip #20 -- Show things in sequence
Using graphics, screenshots etc.
Tip #21 -- Use other sources that fit
...
Tip #22 -- A picture is worth 1000 words
A 4MB picture is actually worth 100k words. ;-)
Tip #23 -- Show how big something really is!
Shows example of 1 exa-penny.
16 exabytes of paper would go all the way to Pluto.
Tip #25 -- Show the same thing in different ways.
...Read , listen, see ,do
Tip #26 -- Use a very simple example
E.g. the "easy button"
Tip #27 -- Taking questions
Take questions. Repeat a question. Make sure not to answer the wrong question.
Tip #28 -- Note debatable issues in your presentation
...
Tip #30 -- Practice makes perfect
Practice!
Rehearse against the clock (too slow, too fast, nice to everyone?)
Tip #31 -- Have a good finish
...
Tip #32 -- Summary and references
...
Tip #33 -- ...
Make the point-
Illustrate comparisons that are the same and are different. Show how things don't work!
Demonstration slotiions and options.
Use multiple techniques to clarify ideas.Use multiple levels such as drill down to focus concepts and
demoonstrate processes.
Sequencing ideas is imporatnt in longer presentations.
Make backups. Don't over prepare
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I need some context for this page: is this a summary from somebody who attended the presentation? Why not just write a blog and link to the presentation on OTN?
I seems like a very nice presentation, but was it on Open World? Or the unconference? |
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