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CSS wizard Dave Shea gives some handy hints and tips garnered from extensive public speaking experience.
Every single tip is a gem and worthy of noting, especially the one about the futility of over-preparedness of your speech. You should always leave room for invention, creativity and spontaneity.
So recently, I’ve realized a few things that I think are making me a better speaker. I’ve stopped spending ages coming up with finely-detailed outlines of each presentation, and instead I’m leaving more to real-time interaction. I’m still no Veen or Molly, and likely will never be, but at least I’m comfortable in my own methods now, and I think that’s the real key to presenting well.
Equally worth reading are the comments to Dave’s post — currently there are 31!
Hat tip to Roy Hammans over on the Visual Being blog.
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Great tips. Speaking in public is hard enough without trying to stick to a strick outline. Spending that energy on tracking audience feedback would be a much better strategy in most situations. Hit the high points, have some stories that you can use to get across those points, and call it a wrap.
True, Ed, they are great tips indeed. Using stories to make your point is also a superb strategy — ‘stories’ are my preferred method of capturing and keeping an audience’s interest.
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