A presentation by @stuherbert
for @GanbaroDigital
Crafting A Talk
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Who has given a talk before?
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Who is here
for help with their first talk?
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If you only take these away ...
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Level 3 Award
in Education And Training
(latest replacement for ET01)
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... this talk was worth it :-)
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Crafting A Talk is a skill.
Anyone can learn how to do it.
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What We Will Cover
1. The Process
2. Concept
3. Construction
4. Rehearsal
5. Miscellaneous Bits and Bobs
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What We Will Cover
1. The Process
2. Concept
3. Construction
4. Rehearsal
5. Miscellaneous Bits and Bobs
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What We Will Cover
1. The Process
2. Concept
3. Construction
4. Rehearsal
5. Miscellaneous Bits and Bobs
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What We Will Cover
1. The Process
2. Concept
3. Construction
4. Rehearsal
5. Miscellaneous Bits and Bobs
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What We Will Cover
1. The Process
2. Concept
3. Construction
4. Rehearsal
5. Miscellaneous Bits and Bobs
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Please do ask questions
as we go.
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Grab me after the talk
to look at things
in more detail.
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The Process
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It helps if you have
a structure to follow
and some models to guide you.
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Here’s mine.
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Others are available.
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Construction
Rehearsal
Concept
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Construction
Rehearsal
Concept
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Construction
Rehearsal
Concept
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Construction
Rehearsal
Concept
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My rule of thumb:
approx 20 hours of prep
for each talk
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At least double that
if supporting materials
or new research required
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Don’t start Crafting A Talk
at the last minute.
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Concept
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The Concept is
the design criteria
for my talk.
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Where do we start?
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Why am I
giving this talk?
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Any that I’ve missed?
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Why has the audience
come to this talk?
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https://flic.kr/p/c8wuVq
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I write my concepts down
and publish them
as talk abstracts.
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Concept Structure
1. What is the problem / pain?
2. What will I cover in the talk?
3. What will change after seeing the talk?
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How do you go about writing a talk? How do you
go about learning to write a talk? What are the
skills involved? What's the process from taking an
urge to say something all the way through to
giving the talk to an audience? What happens
afterwards?
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Concept Structure
1. What is the problem / pain?
2. What will I cover in the talk?
3. What will change after seeing the talk?
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I'm going to take you through the process of
writing a talk. More specifically, I'm going to take
you through my process. I'll show you how I go
about it, and all the things I'm considering when
crafting a talk.
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Concept Structure
1. What is the problem / pain?
2. What will I cover in the talk?
3. What will change after seeing the talk?
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I'll share 3 specific things that you can go away
and do to help you craft your own talks. And,
hopefully, I'll give you the confidence that you can
do this too.
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Concepts are normally created
and published well in advance.
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Treat the concept as immutable.
Unless you can’t write that talk
when you sit down to try.
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Concept
1. What is the problem / pain?
2. What will I cover in the talk?
3. What will change after seeing the talk?
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Construction
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“ Construction is
writing all the content
and creating any
supporting material.
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For this talk,
that starting thread
was The Process image.
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Construction
Rehearsal
Concept
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How do we cater
for different ability levels?
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I use a technique
I learned from sales people.
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Let the audience
make an informed decision
to attend or not.
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Required Prior Knowledge
1. List it in the talk abstract
2. Cover it again in the talk intro
3. How much can I explain during the talk?
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We can construct the talk
to play on several levels at once.
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Level 3 Award
in Education And Training
(latest replacement for ET01)
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Teaching Mixed Ability Groups
1. Inclusion
2. Differentiation
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At the start of the talk,
I try to learn about my audience.
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Learn about
the experience they bring
into the talk.
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Learn about
the experience they want to take
from the talk.
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I have to anticipate
the answers when
I construct the talk.
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I can’t change the slide deck,
but I can change
my words and my emphasis.
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“I have a slide for that”
is one of my most powerful tools.
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Teaching Mixed Ability Groups
1. Inclusion
2. Differentiation
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What are the stages
of learning?
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Mixed Ability Groups Need
1. Step by step instructions to follow
2. Why each step is there
3. Why each step works
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How do we make it stick?
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We need emotional content.
- Bruce Lee, Enter the Dragon
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We need audience engagement.
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Constructing Content
1. Brainstorm
2. Organise my thoughts
3. Find the starting thread
4. Then start writing slides
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Use The Learning Model
• Make sure you cover what to do
• Make sure you cover why to do it
• Make sure they are separate
• Order does not matter
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Make It Stick
• Emotional content
• Audience participation
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Rehearsal
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Rehearsal is a practice run.
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As many practice runs as it takes.
Or until I run out of rehearsal time.
Whichever comes first :-)
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Why is it important
to rehearse a talk?
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Rehearsal is where
I debug my talk.
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Construction
Rehearsal
Concept
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Most of the “quotation” slides
were written during
Rehearsal.
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Many of the supporting
“question” slides too!
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We construct with our head.
We rehearse with our heart.
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The central structure of my talk
should flow smoothly.
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If my talk feels like this ...
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Construction
Rehearsal
Concept
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Construction
Rehearsal
Concept
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If there’s doubt,
there is no doubt.
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How long does it take me
to run through my talk?
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How long is the talk slot?
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The allotted time
is a design constraint
for the talk.
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What Can We Leave Out
• to save time ...?
• because it won’t be missed ...?
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When is a talk done?
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A talk is done
when we stop editing it.
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Where can we rehearse?
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Miscellaneous
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Drop names wherever we can.
It might be the only reward
they get for their contributions.
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“If you find something difficult
do more of it
- Lorenzo Alberton @quipo
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Those three things
to take away from this talk ...
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Level 3 Award
in Education And Training
(latest replacement for ET01)
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Thank You
Any Questions?
A presentation by @stuherbert
for @GanbaroDigital