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Stand and DeliverSpeaking Tips For
Small Groups & Meetings
Adam Polansky: UX Strategist @AdamtheIA
Let’s Warm-up!
Everyone is a speaker
Client FacingInternal Teams
Executives
Meetings
What’s at Stake?
UnderstandingCredibility
Expectations
PREPARATION
Roll the Dice!
OrganizationallyDecision Makers
InfluencersPatience
BiasFunding
Know Your Audience
The “Teacher”
Working with a group to develop an understanding you already have.
Variation on Persuasive Presentations – How to get the response you need – Nick Souter – Sterling Publishing 2007
Know Your Room
Presenter's Triangle
Screen
Audience
YOU
Bridge
Variation on Persuasive Presentations – How to get the response you need – Nick Souter – Sterling Publishing 2007
Know Your RoomScreen
Audience
YOUDistance
The “Lecturer”
Delivering your words of wisdom.
The Audience is listening more and interacting less.
“The Sage on the Stage”
Variation on Persuasive Presentations – How to get the response you need – Nick Souter – Sterling Publishing 2007
Know Your RoomScreen
Audience
YOU
The “Coach”
You joined your audience.
The language shifts from “I” to “We”..
Variation on Persuasive Presentations – How to get the response you need – Nick Souter – Sterling Publishing 2007
Know Your RoomScreen
Audience
YOU
The “Coach II”
Can be more likely to elicit contribution.
Can also be a cop-out.
BackgroundE-mail
Contracts
Do The Reading
Anticipate Questions
Leave TimeDuring
CommentsMonologues
Spotlight ThievesInvite Later
Pregame
Review MaterialsFind Your Center
Ritual
Haka from 1926
Preparation
Know Your AudienceKnow Your Room
Do the ReadingAnticipate Questions
Pregame
DELIVERY
Getting Vocal
Practice & Feedback
Practice in a MirrorAudio and Video
In the CarToastmasters*
DeviceProjector
TeleconferenceSlides
Handouts
Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park
Check Your Gear
Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Rodney Park
Delivery
One – PagerTry Standing
Silence is OkayWatch for Cues
Writing Sketching
Eye Contact
Tag Team
Add ColorChime-ins
ScriptedSeating
Work-out In Advance
Executives
PerspectivePain Points
Time DemandsGet the Scoop
Keep It ShortRespond To Cues
Anticipate Questions
After
Keep It GoingHandouts
Capture NotesAction Items
Follow-up
Preparation
Confidence
STORYTELLING
Storytelling
Embody a ConceptMake it Personal
Use NounsShow Outcome
Speak To Objective
State your pointRelevant Support
Bring it home
Narrative
TonePace
EmphasisEmotion
Handwritten Transcripts from Dr. Who The Pirate Planet
by David Bishop New Zealand Herald
Flow Diagram
LinearSequential AnnotatedOutcome
Mind Map
Hub & SpokeNon Linear
Connections
User Journey
ContextProgression
Physical AspectsFunctionality
Emotion
Pure NarrativeFlow Diagram
Mind MapUser Journey
Storytelling Frameworks
Roll em One More Time!
The Psychology of Standing Up
Good StartCreates Focus
Moves FocusInvokes Clarification
Forces SummaryShared Context
The Power of the
Whiteboard
WOOF! Declaration
WOOF! Confirmation
WOOF! Action
What is it girl?
Timmy fell down the well?!
Take me to him!
WOOF!
So…
Adam Polansky: UX Strategist @AdamtheIA
Thank You!
Adam Polansky: UX Strategist @AdamtheIA
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