How to Speak

🏷️ Tào lao

How to start

• Don’t start with a joke
• Start with a promise

Samples

• Cycle on the subject
• Build fence around the idea
• Verbal punctuation
• Ask questions

Time and place

• 11AM: Great time to have a lecture
• Well-lit: keep the lights full up
• Cased
• Populated

Board

• Use graphic in presentation
• Speed
• Can target easily

Props

• Useful to help audiences visualize things

Board + props => empathetic mirroring

Slides

• Should have minimum amount of words
• Do not read
• Be in the image
• Use simple images
• Eliminate clutter

Show your interest in what you are saying

How to think

• Stories
• Questions

Job talks

• Show vision

  • Problem
  • Approach

• Steps to solve the problem

• Do in 5 minutes

• Contribution

Getting famous

• Why: in order not to be ignored

• How: 5S

  • Symbol associated with the subject
  • Simple slogan
  • Surprise
  • Salient idea that sticks out
  • Story

How to end

• Put the collaborators on the first slide
• Don’t ask questions or say thank you
• On the last slide, show contribution
• Tell joke
• Salute

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unzc731iCUY