"Speaking.io" summarizing techniques and precautions when talking in front of a large number of conferences, presentations, etc.

ByLeo Lambertini

He is the founder and former CEO of AppleSteve JobsI was excited to leave a "legendary speech" and to grab a lot of hearts, but it is not easy to speak in public, such as conferences and corporate meetings, It is difficult to tell in. Talking about "talking" techniques such as talking speed, composition, topic selection, how to make a slide, equipment to use, software and practice method after presentation, etc. when giving a lecture or presenting such a large number "Speaking.io". GitHub employees who have talked at technical conferences around the worldZach HolmanHe is making it.

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◆ 1: Make up the composition of the talk


Which topic to pick is important, but "Focus content to the limitEven with a few weeks to narrow down, you need to discover the points where you and your opponent are interested. Also, it is important to "avoid avoiding themes that you do not know", and choose the theme you are interested in.

An effective way to explain content along the theme is "iteration". Steve Jobs also uses a method of repeating slides and contents once talked in different way of viewing and speaking. It is especially useful when explaining complicated scenes. Also, leave a minute or two at the end of the talk, it becomes a talk that tends to be remembered by memorizing important contents once or twice easily and collectively.

Mr. Holman may use 100 slides for a 30 minute talk, but how many slides to use depends on the theme and the speaker. Slide is prepared to simply impress your story and if you insert words within 1 word or 2 words, apply slide additions and changes according to the reaction of the venue. Also, Mr. Holman says to slide 10 slides in 20 seconds is the best interval, but effective slide sometimes uses 5-10 minutes. However, if you are distracted by the slide streaming operation, you should consider 0 to 2 slides and conscious of the tempo and pace to talk.


◆ 2: Color of slide


For important points of the text you wrote on the slide, it is important to use attention colors such as red and to use colors well. It is difficult to find wonderful colors and combinations, but "COLOURloversYou can select from over 1 million colors if you use a palette site like. The method of choosing the color is effective contrast, "slide color × light color", and "slide of red color × blue type", the slide where the accent colors of the two colors are arranged as follows shows the talk of the audience to the audience It has an effect to concentrate on.


It is also one ingenuity to capture the feeling of the audience, such as summarizing the whole with a light orange slide as below and slowly flowing the important part as a white slide.


◆ 3: How to make a slide

The majority of software that runs slides is "Keynote"Or"PowerPointIt is best to choose these two rather than looking for other excellent software. If you want to use another software,Showoff","Impress.jsThere is also an open source that can be used in browsers such as.

The basis of the text displayed on the slide is "not too big, not too much" as a basis, and slides that simply display text are also effective ideas that many people have taken in. Choose a solid font from the PC's default, or select "Google Fonts"Is also a kind of excellent font. Also, the proportion of the screen can be made a movie-like atmosphere by setting it to "widescreen" from "4: 3", and if the creation size is unified to 1920 × 1080, the equipment of the venue is compatible with full HD You can display it neatly, even old equipment can be shown in a pop atmosphere.


◆ 4: Practice for the day


When the slide is completed, it will never be shown in production as it is,ScreencastRecording the same composition as the demonstration, it is essential to reconsider the recorded mistakes and reconsider typing and composition. Once the perfect screencast has been completed, there is also a way to play it as it is. Next, at least 2 to 3 times, practice practically talking about all contents to be talked about in the production. It is important to speak in a loud voice, measuring the "How long it took to speak until the end?" Can prevent time over in production.

Furthermore, what you talk about is your best learning tool. Even if you are unaware of yourself, even if you emit unnecessary words such as "um ... ..., ah, yeah," you can notice at this stage. If you are using a Mac series PC,QuickTimeFrom "file" to "New screen recording"It is possible to record while running slides at the same time as well as sound.


◆ 5: Production


While there are a lot of strangers, unexpected failure tends to occur, but if you do not forget that "most people are not interested in your life or what you say" it is possible to lower the probability of failure about. When you start the production, doing one jokes and a fun story of about 30 seconds is a technology that makes it easy for the audience to grasp the mind. On the stage we try to be humble, if you make a big mistake, it is better to speak honestly.

When using the slide, direct production can be done by using the remote control without directly operating the laptop computer, Holman's recommendation is "Logicool Professional Presenter". Apple's "Apple Remote"It is said that it is better not to use because the usable range is narrow. In addition, it is necessary to make "make mobile phones silent", "maximize the brightness of the notebook PC", "position adjustment of the slide at the venue equipment" before the actual number.


All you have to do is prepare thoroughly and enjoy and challenge the production. During the presentation, you can create an atmosphere to excite the audience by speeding up "talking pace" and you can speak slowly and give weight to individual words. It is effective to remember techniques such as "speaking volumes" always talking big and when explaining important things, adding changes such as "change in voice".

◆ 6: I think about the reaction of the audience and what happened


Speech is not everything, depending on the conference, question time may be set after speech, or at a company meeting there may be a question and answer from a colleague. Questions and answers with the audience are particularly important, and by answering clearly and clearly, you should know the speech of this time, "How successful was you?" "What point were you interested in?" Even if you do not hear it when you receive a question you will not be disrespectful if you talk again. If you do not have the answer to the question, you can avoid dignified circles by talking with the questioner.

Although it may be pointed out by the audience to the content that you said, if you can not judge the correctness of the pointed out, avoid telling the label "people who change the corocoro thought" by telling them, "I did not know that" I can. When it was wrong to accept obediently it leads to a new idea.

ByOfficial GDC

Since there are many times to make the same speech at different times and different places, if you recollect the talk of the day and have strange things in the content, you should improve it steadily. If you pay attention to the audience while talking, you can see the scenes where there were many people who were not listening to talks on the way or who were touching mobile phones. Looking back at the corresponding talk, I noticed that "Speech speed is slow", "Explanation is difficult" and so on, it seems that you can improve the contents that are interesting just by changing to a slightly crushed expression.