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Who am I?
I started atRackspace in 2006
I love Fedora Linux, python, OpenStack,
and information security
I root for underdogs (including Houston
Texans, Houston Astros, and SELinux)
I own over60 domain names(I have a problem)
I enjoy being the whipping boy for new
technologies
I love watching that Keith Morrison guy
on Dateline NBC(orrrr, do I?)
Agenda
1. My amazingly horrific
breakthrough moment
2. What this presentation is really
about
3. Changing the world
Making a point“If you have an important
point to make, don't try to
be subtle or clever. Use a
pile driver. Hit the point
once. Then come back and
hit it again. Then hit it a
third time - a tremendous
whack.”
― Winston S. Churchill
Getting overthe fear
This may work for some people,
but let’s choose something more
productive (and HR-friendly).
“Winston Churchill
overcame his early fear of
audiences by imagining that
each of them was sitting
there naked.”
-- Dorothy Samoff
Speech Can Change Your Life
Imagine that everyone in your audiencesigned a contract to do ONE THINGyou ask of them during your talk.
We speak to change the world
It starts with an appeal
to something inside every person
in your audience.
(Sorry, we’re going
to get mushy here.)
Something that big will go where it wants to go. Convincing a six ton animal to
change directions isn’t easy.
However, it can be done.
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.”
-- Helen Keller
Examples:
Use an anecdote of a previous failureand how you overcame it
Use humor to gently highlightthe behavior you want to change
Appealingto the rider
Unlike the elephant, the rider
responds well to reason
Facts
Statistics
Examples
Comparisons
Demonstrations
The rider can make small adjustments to the elephant’s path based on reason.
However, the rider willget tired quickly if the elephant
is going in a very different direction.
Shaping the pathNow that the audience
understands your message and
wants to take action, what do
they do now?
Offer a challenge with a simple
implementation
Provide links to documentation
and/or your code repository
One-step installations are helpful
here
Timeframe for preparing a talk
DEMANDS, APPEAL, AND OUTLINE MAKE SLIDES PRACTICE
My rule of thumb:One hour of preparation per five minutes of talking time
(That’s six hours of preparation for a half hour talk)
50% 25% 25%
Bullets are okayBut they can get
out of hand quickly
Keep them brief
Make them useful
Appendices for long comments
Record audio whileyou practiceIt’s less stressful than
recording video
You can focus on what you’re
saying, not how you look
when you’re saying it
Refine your slides, your
speech, or both as you listen
to the playback
Handling questions without rambling
1-2-3 method
Provide three short responses, calling out the number each time
Past, present, future
Compare the past, how it is today, and a desired state
(Good for difficult/pointy questions)
“The success of your presentation will be judged not by the knowledge you send but by what the listener receives.”
-– Lilly Walters
Photo credits
● Photo of the elephant by itself: "Serengeti Elefantenbulle" by Ikiwaner - Own work. Licensed under GFDL 1.2 via Commons
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Serengeti_Elefantenbulle.jpg
● Elephant rider: Flickr: Tim Bayman - https://www.flickr.com/photos/19762723@N00/132788464/
● Path along the mountainside: Flickr: Martin Pilát - https://www.flickr.com/photos/40451021@N07/10852460074/
● Threw it on the ground: http://gorekayke.deviantart.com/art/Threw-it-on-the-GROUND-260550800
● Delivery motorcycle: By Kamyar Adl (originally posted to Flickr as Tissue Delivery) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.
org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
● Cat and microphone: Flickr: ocean yamaha - https://www.flickr.com/photos/oceanyamaha/7091324605
● Presentation slide with car: PCWorld - http://www.pcworld.com/article/203396/worlds_worst_powerpoint_presentations.
html
● Winston Churchill photo: By United Nations Information Office, New York [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
● Major at Fedora Flock 2015: Kushal Das -- https://kushaldas.in/posts/day-2-of-flock-2015.html
● Old train photo: Ben Brooksbank [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia
Commons
● Suggestion box: By Hash Milhan (Flickr: suggestion box) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via
Wikimedia Commons