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Perfomance and Presentations (Bad presentations: (• has clearly not…
Perfomance and Presentations
Important key points
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Consider having two versions of your presentations:
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The version for a live audience:
contains the main results, a minimum of text.
2) The full version:
this contains more text, possibly more
slides.You can tell the audience at the beginning of the presentation where they can download the full version.
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Consider uploading your presentation onto
your smartphone and hold it in your hand during the presentation. This will considerably reduce your anxiety .
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Don't make any written mistakes at the presentation.
Don't be obsessed by your spoken English. If you mistake in your English when you talk, the majority of your audience will not care.
Giving presentations gives you success your career.
By giving a presentation at a conference, you can gain visibility and inform others of the results you have achieved. A presentation is an opportunity to talk about factors that you probably wouldn’t mention in your paper. And of course you can list the presentations you have given in your CV, in applications for grants, and in grant progress reports.
Simply attending, without presenting, is not enough
All the networking benefits are considerably improved if you have given a presentation. You will find that people will come up to you after the presentation and ask for more details or even suggest collaborations—this means that the effort to make face-to-face contact is principally made by them not you.
Good presentations:
• are professional and are delivered by someone who is credible and confi dent
• look like they were prepared specifi cally for us and make it immediately clear why we should be interested
• have clear slides, with minimal detail and helpful and/or entertaining images
• tell us interesting, curious, and counterintuitive things
• don’t make us work too hard to follow what is being said—two or three main points, lots of examples, and not too much theory
• are delivered in a friendly, enthusiastic, and relatively informal way
• entertain us and interact with us
Bad presentations:
• has clearly not practiced the presentation
• has no clear introduction, a confused structure, and no conclusions
• appears to be talking to himself/herself rather than engaging with the audience
• reads the slides
• has a series of similar slides full of text and diagrams
• relies on animations
• fails to address the audience’s interest and only sees things from his/her point of view
• is too technical, too detailed
• speaks too fast, speaks with a monotone, speaks for too long
• shows little interest in his/her topic
The key to a professional presentation
A “professional” presentation is one where you put the audience first. You think
about how the audience would most like to receive the information you are giving.The important thing is to be relaxed.To become more relaxed, the key is to prepare well and concentrate on the content, not on your English. Be realistic and don’t aim for 100% accuracy, otherwise you will be more worried about your English than about communicating the value of your research.