Watch your body posture

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Delivery

• Watch your body posture
• Use a conversational tone
• Eye contact 90 of speaking time
• Smile
• Vary the pace, pause

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Body Language

• 93 of communication is non verbal
• Prepare for the ear
• Three dimensional

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Logistics

• (When Where of the Presentation)
• Attendance
• Check out room
• Test equipment
• Adapt layout
• Arrive early

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The stuff that gets forgotten

• Before
• Agendas are like menus
• Things on seats set expectations
• Know your audience

• After
• Networking time
• E-mail presentation
• Keep their cards
• Answer their questions

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Final Pointers

• One main idea
• The rule of three
• Big start
• Bigger finish

• Checklist
• Simple
• Less is more
• Seize attention
• Be memorable
• Demand action

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Answering questions afterwards

• Listen carefully to what is asked
• Dont interrupt
• Repeat if audience might not have heard
• Pause and think if necessary
• Answer completely but concisely no speeches
• Take questions around the room
• Answer to the whole audience
• Say if you dont know
• Dont be defensive
• Keep your dignity
• Keep an eye on the time

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QA Pointers

• What questions do you have? vs
• Any questions?
• Most interactive part
• Eliminate barriers
• Repeat or restate
• Respond simply and directly
• Dont lose your cool

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Conclusions Ten simple rules for effective oral
presentations

• Talk to the audience (eye contact, judge level,
  deliver what they want to hear)
• Less is more (clear and concise)
• Only talk when you have something to say (dont
  present if not ready)
• Make the take-home message persistent (will they
  remember your key point one week later?)
• Be logical (presentation must flow)
• Treat the floor as a stage (humour, movement,
  hand gestures, comfort)
• Practice and get timing right
• Use visuals carefully but effectively
• Review audio or video of your presentations
• Provide appropriate acknowledgements (whether in
  audience or not)

PLoS web-site http//www.ploscompbiol.org/article
/infodoi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.0030077
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Five things for you to do before your talk
Rehearse 1. When rehearsing before a live being,
eliminate your overview and summary slide. Find
out what they found interesting, memorable,
confusing. Have them list what they thought was
most important! Did they get your message? 2.
Test all your equipment in advance of the
presentation. 3. Rehearse using as much or all
of the tools you plan use during the real thing.
4. Have a backup plan What if your projector
dies, computer crashes, slide tray still on the
plane. What is plan B. And did you practice
it? 5. Introduction, Objective, Overview,
Presentation, Summary (Conclusion) Five things
for your audience to do 1. Stay awake.
2. Receive the information they seek. 3. Get
your message. 4. Take away supporting materials
that help them disseminate the information you
presented. 5. Act on your information. Five
things to do when you are done 1. Thank them!
2. Make materials available 3. Make yourself
available 4. Provide them with a method of
reaching you 5. Get feedback -- Find out what
they thought of you, what they learned, what they
were hoping to learn but didn't, how you can
improve your presentation, how to improve your
communication skills.
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Posters at scientific conferences

• Dont write a paper on the sheet! snapshot of
  your research
• Pare back your detail to the base essentials to
  make your points
• Think about your visuals and overall visual look
  important to make an impression to draw someone
  in to reading the poster
• Consider your visuals and overall look first
• Can present a lot of information schematically,
  present highlights
• Biggest error is trying to present too much
  cluttered posters,tiny writing etc.
• Make sure it can be read from a distance of 5-6
  feet easily
• Attach cards or copies of the poster for people
  to take away

Poster etiquette

• Find out when you should be by your poster and
  be there
• Alternatively, leave notices as to when you will
  be present
• Good idea have small (A4) copies available

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Ten simple rules for effective poster
presentations

• Define the purpose (what do you want to achieve?)
• Sell your work in ten seconds (fighting for
  attention)
• The title is important
• Poster acceptance means nothing (does not mean
  work is great)
• Apply principles for good writing
• Good posters have unique features not pertinent
  to papers (distill the work, speculate, be
  creative, not permanent record)
• Layout and format are critical
• Content is important, but keep it concise
• Posters should have a personality
• Impact happens during and after the session (give
  copies, e-mail contacts, collect cards of
  visitors)

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Posters should be..

• Brief
• Clearly organised
• Simple with obvious point
• Attractive and aestheticaly pleasing
• Based around visual imagery
• Text-light with lots of lists and bullets

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Basic example of poster layout
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Three audiences for your poster
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Posters versus presentations
Posters
Presentations

• Informal
• One to one or few communication
• Speaker and audience standing
• Direct contact
• Flexible time
• Free audience
• Questioning and conversation
• Easy to exchange personal info

• More formal
• One to many communication
• Speaker standing, audience sitting
• Contact refereed
• Fixed amount of time
• Captive audience
• Mainly one speaker and some questions
• Less easy to exchange personal info

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Conclusions

• Always have a good conclusion
• Consider your message
• Consider your audience carefully
• Construct your presentation remembering use of
  voice and images
• Keep it simple and clear graphically
• Rehearse and revise
• Relax!