“The universe is made of stories, not of atoms - Muriel Rukeyser”
Everyone has a story to tell. Public speaking is one of the powerful mediums to express your story to the world. This pandemic changed a lot of things in all of our lives. A lot of self-reflection resulted in pursuing our dreams and desires. Similarly, our Synapse Pricilla started her Public speaking journey in recent years. She is constantly working on her speaking skills. She is keen on sharing her impressions of Public speaking and the major factors that influenced her journey. To listen more about her personal experiences and to spark up the Speaker in you, join us for the upcoming webinar.
The essence of the talk will be as follows:
1. Creating awareness about Public speaking
2. How to get started with it
3. Few tips, tricks, and tools that help
4. Process and Roadmap to get started with your public speaking journey
10. SWOT ANALYSIS
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STRENGTHS
Confident areas, or your
passionate
WEAKNESSES
Areas of improvement
Possibilities to enter and shine
as a Public Speaker
OPPORTUNITIES
What if’s
THREATS
12. Topic Selection
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● Your area of Strengths/Passion
● Past/Current work experience
● Your story/career path
● From the conferences or talks
● Books you read
13. Organising the talk
● Write down in a Paper
● Declutter
● Use tools (Notepad++, Trello, OneNote, Google
Doc)
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14. Few tips to overcome the fear
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● Proper research on the topic
● Planning and Organizing
● Ask for help (Mentor/Friend)
● Rehearsal, Refine and Repeat
● Train your Brain, Talk to your Fear
● Breathe deeply
● Prepare for the worst
15. Audience to fall in love with your talk
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● Smile (Mirror Effect)
● Story-telling (challenges or metaphors)
● Speak from your heart and be yourself
● Make Eye-Contact
● Invest time in preparing slides
● Demos
● Serial-position effect
16. Things to avoid
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● Offensive words
● Sales pitch
● Usual content
● Lack of flow/clarity
● Political/Religious Statements
● Infoxication
21. yoodli
● AI powered speech coach
● Both video and audio
● Categories: Speech,
Interview and Fun Topic
● Share your speech
● Library of your videos
● Delete/Download the
videos
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22. 22
Insights
● Confidence Evaluation
● Filler words
● Hedging words
● Pacing
● Top Keywords
● Articulation
● Repetition
● Non Inclusiveness
● Loudness
● Pauses
24. Benefits you receive
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● Public Speaking = A Better Brain
● Confident in expressing yourself
● Career advancements
● Inspiring others
● Standing out from the crowd
● Gaining strong technical knowledge
34. CREDITS
Special thanks to all the people who made and
released these awesome resources for free:
⊗ Presentation template by SlidesCarnival
⊗ Photographs by Unsplash
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Notas do Editor
“Presenting is just too scary”
"I'm naturally not a charismatic person"
"I have no idea how to start"
“I wouldn’t look good on the stage or camera”
"What if people will reject me? what if I make a dumb mistake?"
“I don’t like being watched.”
“I don’t like the eyes on me.”
“I don’t like being in the spotlight.”
Symptoms including: Increased blood pressure/perspiration, Dry mouth, Shortness of breath and Intense anxiety
Staircase slipped - quote a anecdote
Prehistoric age, this is treated as threat.
An amygdala hijack is an emotional response that is immediate, overwhelming, and out of measure with the actual stimulus because it has triggered a much more significant emotional threat
Negativity Bias. Think about the Audience. You are here to share your knowledge. Think about the impact you are going to make in their lives. The negative bias is our tendency not only to register negative stimuli more readily but also to dwell on these events.
Title, abstract, your stories, relevant, not important (based on the time)
Vagus nerve related to brain and vocal chords
Aha-moments.
Keep it simple, non-native speakers.
Dopamine effect, when telling stories. Bonding with Stories, everyone including children. Emotional context helps us to remember.
Data with the Story and Soul.
Include Demos, place doesn’t matter. Be ready with the content, show relatable examples
Demo not everywhere, if possible.
Primacy and Recency Effect.
Coffee
Bread
Singapore
Potato
Shark
Board
Hungry
Slide
Swim
Better
Hell
Square
Puzzle
Biriyani, spices, mix and match of right proportions. Make your own recipe.
Every time you feel yourself wanting to use a filler, simply take a breath. If you do accidentally use a verbal filler, don’t react and don’t apologize. This is a slow way to retrain your brain that it should pause instead of filling.
Meeting new people
Authentic self
Supernova Qualifying event with TTT, Testerspeak and Women In Testing, Synapse provided me to opportunity to be as Host, Internal webinars workshops with Billenium, first international conf experience, two talks with QA talks conferences, Women in APIs speaking cohort,
MoT Virtual coffee, Community, Mentees, Blogging, Public speaking are my life savers during COVID days!
School fine arts competitions, English Elocution competition, till district level.