Presenting with confidence

Ironically, I've never been as nervous as when presenting this meta-presentation :)

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1. Presenting with confidence Riinu Ots
2. Part I: The Message
3. Hi, what are you working on? PERSON 1: Cancer surgery outcomes - we have collected patient data from 80 countries around the world and are now analysing it.
4. Hi, what are you working on? PERSON 1: Cancer surgery outcomes - we have collected patient data from 80 countries around the world and are now analysing it. PERSON 2: Our 3000 collaborators around the world entered patient data into our database. We are now finishing a data cleaning and quality assurance process and are now doing multilevel, multivariable, mixed effects regression modelling. We have about 100 variables per patients, including demographics, disease and neoadjuvant treatment, operation, pathology and outcomes. The included cancers are breast, gastric, colorectal...
5. If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. Albert Einstein
6. New information How many presenters per hour? How about per day? Photo by AbsolutVision on Unsplash
7. New information How many presenters per hour? How about per day?
8. The message How many presenters per hour? How about per day?
9. The message - make it clear Yourself first Then others Photo by AbsolutVision on Unsplash
10. Decide what your message is Make a plan before you make the slides
11. Audience attention curve Image source: http://www.scientificleaders.com/presentations
12. Give your message away immediately! Research paper: 1. Introduction/Literature overview 2. Methods 3. Results 4. Discussion 5. Conclusions Presentation: Result first! Then explain how
13. Decide on your message, give it away as soon as possible, keep repeating it.
14. Part II: Practical tips
15. Speak slower • Listeners need time to process new information • Replace UMMMs with silence • You are alert so your time feels different
16. 1 slide per minute MAXIMUM • 10 minutes, 10 slides! • Single-page plan helps • Giving away the message early helps
17. People can’t listen and read at the same time • Make your slides • Then remove half your text • Then remove half of your remaining text
18. People can’t listen and read at the same time • Free images from: ◦ unsplash.com ◦ fontawesome.com
19. Don’t start with a negative “I didn’t have time to...” “This is just something I...” “I’m not an expert of...” “This is my first time speaking about….”
20. Repetition, repetition, repetition How much new information can you learn per hour?
21. Preparing a presentation takes a long time
22. Do not let perfect get in the way of good! • One improvement at a time • One slide at a time
23. Prepare to spend a lot of time, but do not try to be perfect! 1. What’s your message? 2. Give the message away early 3. Repeat it 4. Speak slower 5. Replace UMMMs with silence 6. 1 slide per minute 7. Remove most text, get images from: a. unsplash.com b. fontawesome.com 8. Do not start negatively/with an unnecessary apology • One improvement at a time • One slide at a time
24. Bonus tip: Nodding at the presenter is really helpful.