How to speak ¹

Rules
- Don’t start with a joke
- Start with a promise of what they’ll learn by the end (topic sentence)
Speaking isn’t about showing the inside of your head, they want to be convinced ²
- Only teachers are paid to care about how you believe things are

Strategies to speaking

Cycle your content 3 times:
- “explain something, expain it again, and explain it a third time”
- At any point, 20% of the audience isn’t listening
Contextualize your point by comparing it to other things
- Bargaining is different from neogiation in that it is testing the opponent’s flexibility rather than just seeking a solution through whatever means.
Verbal Punctuation: give audience a chance to start listening again after losing focus
- Announce the start of a new major point
Asking a question
Emphathetic Mirroring: making the audience feel, relate, and understand what you’re doing by doing practical things
- Write things on the board
  - Rather than use power point slides
- Point at the board, even if it doesn’t relate to what you’re saying, it focuses the listener
- Use props
Be passionate about what you’re saying, its infectious

Rules of Content
- Don’t put many words on a slide
- Get rid of background image junk
- last slide
  - Don’t use ‘Questions?’
  - Use ‘Contributions’: what you’ve contributed to the topic, what has been discussed before, what you’ve found out new now
Example:
Don’t need the bottom two logos
Don’t need the title: you can just tell them the title
Use of slide
- Don’t use the lazer to point since it requires lost of eye contact
  - Use ‘Arrow Number 1’ and 2 instead

Getting a job: what recruiter wants are
- Vision: giving your understanding of the problem, and what approach you have that’s new and exciting
- Shown you’re doing something: to try and deal with the problem
- Contribution to the problem