Presentation skills

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Those videos are asked for writing the summary in the class. However, I think those videos are good to be watched for understanding the mind to the skills related to the presentation.

Summary of the videos

Before talking about how to do a good presentation, the right attitude and the strong mind are the nut shell to understand why we should be here writing the summary and training the PhD program with the presentation skill. Based on the talk- The Discipline of Finishing from Conor Neil, he delivered an important idea the worth to be memorized all the time- who would you bet on from surroundings? If you were an investor, would you spend 10% of your wealth to the person who exactly like you?

The speaker quotes the three most important rules that Warren Buffett, the top three billionaires in the world, do the investment to a company, including integrity, energy, and adaptive intelligence. Integrity comes from the coherence between diary and the values. According to the psychology, the integrity is related to marshmallow test indicates that the children who can control their mind to eat the marshmallow immediately and get the additional one after a moment can be successful in their future life. Energy is for a health body and can take the action without overthinking the action. In other words, we should live like athletes' strong mind, get the life on the present 100% and experience every little piece. Adaptive intelligence leads to avoid the disaster pattern, which can be improved by writing the introspection of daily activities every single day. To sum up, the rule of success is simple, do one step a time, say no to things that is not important to you and do not watch on the marshmallow, which give you the excuse to lose the control.

But how to give a good speech? A speech should deliver the new idea that is worth for sharing or inspiring to the audience and help those audience to understand the new ideas easily. That means delivering one main idea during the 15 minutes speech for audience is full for audience to understand. In addition, delivering the idea in a easy way with good structured and ordered needs daily practicing and the preparing before the speech. During the speech, reading the reaction from the audience can immediately get the feedback if the speech is interesting or boring. Therefore, delivering the idea in an intensity way at the beginning of the speech is essential for showing the interests to the audience that the speaker really can care about the topic and catch the attention from the audience. Thinking about in a bar and try to attend the chat, what is the best way to introduce the idea that trying to share? Raised the question that related to the audience is the third best way. Giving some shock facts that let the audience to rethinking about the world that they live is the second best way. However, the first best way to start a speech is to tell the self-experience in the past that inspiring yourself. Everyone is interested in knowing the story of people behind the stuff that tries to talk about. In my opinion, the last one could be modified when giving the speech in colloquium, tell the story that is related to the phenomena in daily life or at least the interesting phenomena that inspiring the researcher to do the research on the topic.

Except for the abstract concept for giving the speech and the way to catch the attention from the audience, the techniques during the communication with audience could assist audience to imagine the idea. David JP Phillips, who search for science behind how to make a good talk, mentioned several important skills in the total 100 skills for giving a successful speech, such as open body language, functional gesturing, various tone of voice, and the proper pauses. For body language, the closed body language could show the defensive attitude toward audience, which is not proper to deliver the message to others. The lower body also shows the trust to people. For functional gesturing, the gesturing should be correlated to the speaking content. Otherwise, the speaking performance could be wierd. For the voice, the low pace or clam pace of speaking that aware listener to pay more attention to the content, leading to the high concentration from audience, which should be good for highlighting the important ideas. The low voice also shows the anticipation motion for audience to listen carefully for the following content. For the pauses, every masterpiece in art and music all contains empty space, which is exactly that should be added to the speaking. A good puase leads the audience focus on the important ideas that speakers try to deliver. On the other hand, bad pause, such as compromise pauses with meaningless sound, could leads to the weird feeling. In short, the every detailed on the stage, the performance is not only to deliver the message from the sentences, but also deliver the voice tone, body language, the feeling of the presenter giving to the audience.

The last part of the presenting is powerpoint slides, the visible information that can easily catch the eyeballs from audience. One of the fact shows that i 90% of what speaker said will be forgot in 30 seconds, which is the same mechanism that we try to find the seat on the train. There are five must attention concepts for doing a slides. 1) Delivering one message for one slice could let the audience focus on one concept at one time and follow the tempo from speaker. 2) Audience only have limited memory to receive text messages from the slides. Simplify the slides with short texts and images can clear title. 3) Most of us see the largest object at the beginning and the starting to notice the minor objects. Therefore, the most important objects or text in the slide should be the biggest to guide the audience. 4) Using the dark background and different contract content on the slides could control the audience what should be notice at the moment precisely. 5) The maximum number presenting the power point is less than 7 because that is the best method to show deliver the message without additional time to pay attention on the slide.

In summary, a worth spreading and eye-catching idea is not good enough to deliver the message to other people. Giving a speech is one way to deliver the message and should be well prepared before going on the stage. With the mind-training method mentioned at the beginning, practice the speech with the right method makes the perfect performance for delivering the ideas that speaker dedicates to.

Note from the videos

How to start a speech

Starting method

  1. Im sb. I'm going to present.... --> lose the attention from audience
  2. Too nervous to start at the beginning (check if everything is fine)

Thinking about the engaging in knowing sb. in common. in the bar

  • Better method
    1. Question that related to the audience (3rd best way)
    2. Facts of the shocks audience to rethinking (2nd best way)
    3. Start to story to a child (Once upon a time..)
      Tell the self-experience in the past the inspiring yourself, which could be better to connect you to the audience. (Tell the story about the people; what they do; what is important to you)

Steps to Improve Your Public Speaking

Have sth to say (own experience)

say it well(practice (record yourself speaking everyday practicing))

read the audience(see if they are really interest in your words)

deliver it with in intensity (show the interests that you really care about the topic /intensity passion)

The Discipline of Finishing: Conor Neill at TEDxUniversidaddeNavarra

  • Who would you bet on? (你會想要投資誰)

Warren Buffect asked this question

  • What critieria that let you to choose this person?
    The grade in the school is not?
    Best friends?

  • Psycology (Marshmallow test)

    轉移注意力使得自己不吃棉花糖

  • 3 criteria of WB

    1. Integrity (正直; 完整？)

      Say no often to others and lots of things; It is about the alignment between the calendar and what did you do.

    2. Energy is health(Vitality) and bias to action
      Health, Good body performance, recover fast
      Bias to action, a tendency to take action over thinking about action

    3. Adaptive Intelligence

      See patterns and change the direction, Avoid the warrant

How to maximize?

  • Intergrity: Love(time)

    Coherence between diary and your values is where the integrity becomes.

    Aware of the time that you spends "every minutes" to hours

  • Energy: High performance of althlates (Focus at present; do not let the mind jump the steps; Deal with the unit)

  • Intelligence: Write stuff down (ideas; describe things)

Sum up during the massive marshmallow (Fair, repeated bad decision; Success, repeated good decision)

Getting your life on the present 100%, experience every little piece

The rule of success:
Do not watch on the marshmallow
Do one step a time. Say no to things that does not important to you.

TED's secret to great public speaking

  1. Transfer the idea to audience from the speake
  2. Synchronize the idea at the same time between the audience and speaker.

World view of the same image/phenomena should be different.

  1. Focus on one idea during the whole talks

    Link the concept as a package and self-consistent

  2. Give the reason for audience to care curiosity)

  3. Build of the ideas that audience not already understand and connect to the inbuilt one.

  4. Make your idea worth sharing

    Inspire sb. in there life.

The 110 techniques of communication and public speaking | David JP Phillips | TEDxZagreb

What makes a good speaks good?

Make your voice to be heard

Most important 5 skills in 110 skills

  1. Choose the close/open body language
    Lower body increasing trust

  2. Functional gesturing (speaking and the gesturing should be correlated)

  3. Tips on voice (pace/rhythm)
    Low pace or clam is important comparing to the high pace

    lowing voice for anticipation

  4. Pauses

    Good pause leads the audience focus on the important ideas that speakers try to deliver.
    Bad pause: Compromise pauses (useless sound.. ehhhhh...blablabla)

Four small skills

  1. Loop up illustrating thinking (increasing the sence of presence)
  2. audiable inhelal (believe in saying sth interesting)
  3. Duquene smill (mouth and eyes)
    Bring joy to everyone
  4. self-laughers

How to avoid death By PowerPoint | David JP Phillips | TEDxStockholmSalon

In 30 seconds, 90% of what speaker said will be forgot, which is the same stratagy that we try to find the seat on the train.

  1. One message per slides
    Just one message delivering for each slides

  2. Avoid to use sentences

    Audience only with limited memory to receive text messages from the. Simplify the slides with short texts and images can clear title. (Enhancing the messages)
    Avoiding using the sentences at the slide during the speaking

  3. Largest size for the most important message
    Most important part in the power point should be the biggest (Guide the audience)

    Impression for vision
    Moving objects, signaling colors(red, orange and yellow), contrast-rich objects, and big objects
    e.g. TV

  4. Dark background
    Control your focus (like cats chasing the laser points)
    Bad to use the white background (out of the focus on the speaker), Better to use the dark background.

  5. Six objects per slides

    Magical number presenting the power point is less than 7. That ismplify t the lowest energy cost for human to catch up in a second. Number of the slides is not being a problem, but number of objects per slide is the problem.