DT&L Conference – Give a Rock Star Presentation Slides with Notes Version Hi! This is Tom Tobin from the University Slide 1 of Wisconsin - Madison, with four quick but Give a Rock-Star powerful tips for how to give a “rock star” Presentation conference presentation. Make sure you (leather pants sold separately) have a sheet of paper and a pen handy, DT&L Conference because this is an interactive presentation. We’ve all been to that presentation, where Slide 2 the facilitator reads a series of bullet points to us right off the screen. Ugh. There is a better way. But first, a quick quiz. There are many Slide 3 Time Technology Thoroughness Body Language Visuals Overview factors that influence how audiences Research Eye Contact Detail Level Expertise Interaction References perceive conference presentations. Some are listed on the screen. Four of these, though, have a much, much greater Quiz! 4 Biggest impact than the others. Care to guess? Go Success Factors? ahead, pause the video here, write down your picks, and then un - pause. Did you pause and write down your ideas? Slide 4 Time Technology Thoroughness Body Language Visuals Overview Well, if you said “Time,” “Visuals,” “Detail Research Eye Contact Detail Level Expertise Interaction References Level,” and “Interaction.” you are correct. The other factors do help, but not as much as these top four. Quiz! 4 Biggest Success Factors? The first thing that sets rock stars apart is Slide 5 their time management. Most presenters just plow right in with data and narratives. But rock stars? They do four things differently. 1. TIME
First, engage your audience, and do it Slide 6 Engage right away. Ask them a question, get them to do a poll, ask for comments, get two brave volunteers to help you with a task— anything to get people with you, instead of just being in the same room. Second, tell stories. Sure, having Slide 7 impressive research data sets to support your new theory is methodologically sound. But pick one story that exemplifies your topic, trend, or idea, and your audience will listen better and remember it Tell stories longer. Have you ever gone to a presentation Slide 8 where the first ten minutes were all about the presenter’s institution? “We are a small private college in a wooded area, and we have 2,356 students and 1,805 faculty members. We were founded in Get to the point 1877 when two prospectors got lost and though they had reached California.” Yeah, none of that. Get right into what you want people to think about and remember. Unless it has to do directly with your topic, omit it. This fourth one is the real rock - star time Slide 9 secret. Plan only enough presentation for 2/3 of your allotted time. For a 45 - minute session, plan 30 minutes of material. Two good things will happen. When you go longer than you had planned (and you Plan for 2/3 will), you’re still good. And you’ll actually have time for questions and conversation at the end. Bonus! 2
Okay, grab that piece of paper and think Slide 10 Write it! Best time about your specific topic. Write down one strategy for you? thing that you will do to engage, tell stories, get to the point, or leave 1/3 of the time “empty.” Pause the video here, and un - pause when you have some ideas written down. The second thing that rock stars do is use Slide 11 visuals. Big, huge, un - mistakable images. 2. Every concert venue has a giant screen. VISUALS Every conference presentation room has one, too. Coincidence? Nope. PowerPoint and other slide - deck software Slide 12 are designed to make you want to put lots of words on the screen. Resist this Few words temptation. Words should be cues for what to say, not a script you’re reading from. Make your text big, use sans - serif fonts, Slide 13 and make the contrast clear between a Dark backgrounds darker background and lighter text. This Light text gets in the way of readability at a small Sans-serif fonts scale (like on your laptop screen or on a Big text (this is 54 pt) handout), but it enhances readability at a distance and on a big screen. Got pictures? Don’t relegate them to just a Slide 14 part of your slides. Fill the frame 3
Whatever you’ve got, whether images or Slide 15 text, use all of the space you have available. If granny in the back row can read your slide and see the image without her glasses, you’re a rock star. Fill the frame Visuals do not need to be representations Slide 16 of exactly what you are saying. Find images that are close to, but not quite the same, or find unexpected images to set a tone or get people thinking. We remember what is unexpected. Also, chocolate. The unexpected Now, add some ideas to your plan on that Slide 17 Write it! Your piece of paper. Write down how you will visual strategy? reduce text, increase readability, fill the frame, and find unexpected visuals. Pause the video here, and un - pause when you have some more ideas written down. Congratulations! You are half way to being Slide 18 a conference rock star. The third thing that 3. rock stars do differently is in the level of DETAIL detail that they share—and where they do it. Your research is complex. Your Slide 19 presentation should not be. Give your audience an overview of your idea, process, or conclusion—and give them a Take-aways simple set of take - aways to remember. Four or fewer is ideal. They’re not your conclusions. They are reminders that point to your conclusions. This presentation itself only has four: time, visuals, details, and interactions. 4
Your research is complex. So all that Slide 20 detail that you might want to share in your presentation should get shared—in your Handouts handouts. Put in the charts, graphs, tables, dense white - paper theory stuff. The real point of a rock - star presentation is to get people interested in learning more about your ideas. That “more” should be in your handouts. Oh, and give them to your audience after your presentation. Otherwise, they’ll just start reading during your session. Sometimes your point is your information. Slide 21 When you share data, show patterns that can be discerned without looking at the labels. Don’t provide more than two or Data sets three trends in the same data set, like you see here. Present one idea or comparison at a time Slide 22 and be sure to explain verbally what people see on the screen, such as this clear graphic showing the difference that sea - level rise makes when storms strike the coast. Your data visualizations are the place to take your time, speak about the details, and really tell your audience what they should take away. You are almost finished with your Slide 23 Write it! How presentation plan. Head back to your will you share? piece of paper and write your four (or fewer) take - aways, what kind of information you’ll put into your handouts, and what ideas require data visualization. Pause the video here, and un - pause when you are ready for the last rock - star technique. 5
No concert is complete without the singer Slide 24 talking with the audience, whether it’s call - and - response, or just “hey, Cleveland, how’re you doing tonight?” Interaction between you and your audience is so 4. important, it was the very first technique INTERACTION under “Time:” engage with the audience right away. There are three more rock - star moves for interacting with your participants. The first one is “10 and 2.” In driver’s ed, Slide 25 10 & 2 they used to tell us to keep our hands at 10 and 2 on the steering wheel. Even though they teach “9 and 3” to 16 - year - olds today (because of airbags, if you’re wondering), the concept of 10 and 2 is a great one for presentations. If you give information for 10 minutes, make sure to have 2 minutes of some kind of action for participants to take. Don’t cheat on this ratio, either: for every 10 minutes of you talking, allow for 2 minute of audience interaction: writing ideas, talking with a neighbor, playing a game, doing a scavenger hunt on their phones: just not you talking. The act of taking a break is what makes information stick from the presentation. To get better interactions, remember Slide 26 QQQ: Qualitative versus Quantitative Questions. Instead of asking, say, “how many of you have encountered student dishonesty in online courses,” re - frame it qualitatively. “How often do you encounter QQQ online cheating?” “What happened the last time you identified dishonesty online?” Just shifting away from closed - ended to open - ended questions increases interaction! 6
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