One weird trick to get better at public speaking

Leverage feedback during a practice run to get better at giving talks!

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1. One weird trick to get better at PUBLIC SPEAKING Lara Hogan @lara_hogan
4. That wasn’t the end.
5. The spotlight comes in many forms.
6. client presentations daily standup talking to your boss design critiques
7. Public speaking is our #1 fear
8. VOICE & APPEARANCE
9. BEING WRONG
10. BEING JUDGED
11. Even experienced speakers feel this way.
12. one weird trick
13. PRACTICE TO GET FEEDBACK
14. PRACTICE TO GET FEEDBACK
15. Humans are bad at feedback.
16. Let’s get better at giving and receiving feedback.
17. Pick your feedback crew.
18. Pick your feedback medium.
20. Tee up good feedback.
21. Topic or Technical Depth Visuals or Presentation of Info Narrative Structure Speaking Style
22. Get feedback on audience distractions.
23. humor Photo by Austin Heller
24. Don’t distract your audience. Photo by @theobserving
25. Make sure everybody can read this.
26. PRACTICE ANSWERING QUESTIONS
27. “I’m afraid of…”
28. Your audience is rooting for you. (right? please?)
29. “I don’t know”
30. You’re still in control during Q&A.
31. Prep your feedback crew to practice answering questions.
32. Ask them to get weird.
33. prep your brain to hear FEEDBACK
34. pro tip: THE MICRO-YES
35. Good feedback is specific and actionable.
36. General Specific & Actionable Positive — ‖ Negative ― –
38. What we need is a spectrum of 
 new voices.
39. Share your work and your knowledge.
40. Help others share their work and their knowledge.
41. Thank you!