 Good evening everyone. Thank you. I'm so glad that you could make it both here in person and online Today we're going to learn presentation skills now When you're thinking about presenting How many of you have made a presentation? For in school or anywhere. Yeah, most of us Okay, most of us have made some kind of a presentation before now my next question How many of you hate Presenting or you're afraid of presenting Yeah, okay about half of you Now I want you to think about Why? Why are you afraid of presenting or do you hate it or? Or Do you hate it because you are afraid of it? What do you think? Well inshallah by the end of the evening You will not be so afraid because knowledge is power and When you know what you're doing you feel much more comfortable, but really When it comes right down to it the only way That you can actually get comfortable speaking is to speak right, I Want to tell you a story about myself After I had been a teacher for about 10 years I Was asked to give a presentation in my school to the other teachers They wanted to learn something about Islam and Ramadan it was just before the month of Ramadan and I had never given a presentation before to any of my colleagues It's different when you're in front of your students There's a bit of a you know kind of a I'm the person with knowledge and you're the person learning But when you're dealing with people who are on your same level. They're your peers boy was I nervous But after I finished Amazingly they asked me to do it again the next time and the next time and the next time and each time I did it when I stepped out of that little comfort zone See this comfort zone is is what you're comfortable doing and then we have our real life That pushes you out of your boundaries And when you can step out of that comfort zone and get pushing yourself You can actually become quite successful And if I can do it so can you Now what I'm going to talk about today first of all I'm going to talk about how you can choose your topic What are you going to talk about? and Yeah, and how to take a big idea and narrow it down to something that can be used in a presentation Next we're going to talk about creating your speech how to work on the content and to make it Interesting and engaging for the audience Third I will be talking about Pre-delivery techniques delivery techniques are things that you are using when you are up here on the stage That make it memorable to the people who are there and finally we're going to talk about planning ahead preparation and practice So let's begin Choosing your topic now What topic are you thinking about that you might like to present? Introducing Islam. Okay, what else? Maybe it's something in your work now, so let's go with the idea of either Presenting about Islam. That's a huge topic right or Presenting about liking the Arabic language another huge topic Okay, so let's go with your goal about Islam your your topic of Islam What is your goal in telling people about Islam? Okay, so either they would convert or they would at least Have knowledge about it. So they would maybe get rid of some misunderstandings Mm-hmm, and what about your idea for Arabic? Okay, so you want to get across the point that it's simple and beautiful and if it's for presenting How to present as a teacher if that's what you want to present like perhaps you're going to train teachers Alright, what would the goal of that be? Would because that's another big big big Topic we have to be able to narrow it down. Alright, so now One of the things that you want to think about when you are Looking at your presentation, you've thought about your topic you've thought about your goal Now, what is the message you want people to walk away with? Because That is where your focus really needs to be you need to remember that people will remember a message What is it you want them to know? What do you want them to walk away with? Arab Arabic is a beautiful language. Okay, and the other Diaz. Yes Making do as in English. Good. Now you're you're starting to narrow it down that Islam teaching them about Islam really big Teaching them about do as in English now that is far more presentable, right unless you're going to be doing a whole Years worth of seminars Right, that's we have to narrow down our topics. Okay now When you are choosing and narrowing down your topics you want to consider a few things What are your areas of expertise? What do you already know your education your experience? What have People what have you been researching about? Okay? These are your areas of expertise That's something to consider Another thing to consider. What is unique about your perspective? What is it that you see? differently than others okay, but Many people may come up and ask you about something Right, and that's the next one. Oh, sorry, not the next one's the one after that but who exactly will your audience be? Are you talking to people who are knowledgeable in the topic that you're talking about or? Are you talking to people your audience will be people who? Don't really know very much about that topic. That's important because if you are dealing with just plain beginners You have to start in a completely different place than you do when you are talking to people who have some general knowledge already Okay, next. What is your time limit? It could be a quick presentation speech five to seven minutes. Maybe it's 10 minutes Maybe it's a long workshop like this one, which is an hour and a half long How much time you have will determine your content Okay, because For example This presentation if I wanted to do it well, it would be in three separate meetings three separate workshops of an hour and a half each All right, if I wanted to cover everything very well for you But because I don't have that I have one session So I had to narrow down my ideas and decide what am I going to keep? What am I going to remove? Next What are your strengths and weaknesses? for example If it if you're talking about presenting Maybe you are a person who is very friendly But you don't make a lot of facial expressions Okay, so being very friendly is a strength Not making a lot of facial expressions would be a weakness So it's great actually if you are a distance from people That don't need to see the facial expressions so much But if you are online for example Right, you want to really work on those facial expressions because it's mostly what they see All right next How can you narrow that subject down? Okay basically You want to go through the process of brainstorming how many of you have heard of brainstorming before Okay, who can tell me how do you brainstorm? Whatever you think about something right Okay, that's good When you brainstorm the important thing is Don't Start to judge Your ideas The idea is when you do the first brainstorming Just write down anything Anything that comes to your mind whether you think it's good or whether you think it's bad Just whatever comes to your mind Then when you can't think of anything else Then You want to go back and look at your list Did it make you think of something else? Great if it did write it down if not now you can start evaluating How good is that is it going to work? Can I do it in that amount of time? right Thinking about it sometimes you think oh no, I I can't do that You know as you start writing your ideas. I can't do that. It won't work Don't don't allow those thoughts to Involve be involved in that first part of your brainstorming process because sometimes you come up with totally different ideas that You really wouldn't have thought of before Okay, and sometimes it leads somewhere maybe not exactly as it is, but it might lead you to a much better idea Okay Now another way to go ahead and narrow it down is to think about these three zones You want to look at the topics you know Because you need to know information about it then what about topics you care about? And finally, what do you think your audience will care about? And you want to find that sweet spot right here that's going to involve all three of those something that you know Something that you care about and something that your audience would be interested in This combination is going to help you narrow it down Okay, so you can When you are presenting you want to keep in mind that you're presenting for a purpose the purpose Has to do with your audience and who you are presenting to Okay Going back to that idea. What is the message you want them to walk away with? And Find that message here. It's going to involve all three of these Okay Now After we've gone through this let's go back now All right You were thinking about Islam huge huge huge topic And you said your goal Was to have People understand Islam better Maybe to convert Okay And the message you wanted them to remember was Islam is a complete religion that's still really big Now that you've thought about all of that, let's say that you have a 20 minute presentation Maybe 10 or 15 How can you take that gigantic topic? And narrow it down. You need it to be more precise Yes, you you would have to limit how much you elaborate Okay, so you want to look at the areas. What do you know? What areas do you know really well about the religion? Narrations. Ah, see now we're getting somewhere Okay, so narrations Narrations of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. Yes, okay, and Then there are there are huge books of narrations All right, and those are highly complex So maybe you want to focus on And allow you to narrow it down. What subject interests you and you care about a lot? Okay, maybe it would be how The Prophet and the companions dealt with people who were not Muslim Right Just saying right and then you would limit it just to those and you would focus on those Right. Do you see how that narrows it down? Good any other questions And lemma your yours is also really really big So maybe you want to start about one aspect of the of the language Right that The sound of the language. Okay Mm-hmm exactly or maybe you want to look at history of the language or even that is big right Again, maybe you want to look at the differences in the sounds between the common English and Arabic Now we're getting closer to something that is workable Do you see it's getting more and more specific? We're ready to create the speech so we're going with Catherine's idea of looking at The hadith or the narrations of the Prophet Uh that have to do with dealing with people of other religions Okay, even that by the way is a huge topic Let's see what we can do. We need to organize it What is the basic organization of a speech? Who knows? What would you have Okay, a title. Yes You could do an outline right A strong opening a strong opening the definition of a title Introduction thank you. This is what I was looking for an introduction A body a conclusion think simple right? My mother always told me Stay simple and sweet Introduction body conclusion That's basic. It's basic in your writing. It's basic in a presentation now Where are we going to go? We want to just like DTM Kajetan said we want to grab their attention right away What did I do at the very beginning to grab your attention? I asked you a question Okay, so I asked you a question right from the beginning And quotes are a great one. You can also use a fact Particularly if it's a shocking fact or unknown Right people don't know Yes, it's definitely sensationalized You can use humor or a very short story. I also included a short story of myself All right Then we want to look at the rule of three An anecdote. Yes an anecdote is here. It is a short story very short Usually about one to two minutes Okay now When we're looking at the rule of three. We're talking about Making things more enjoyable Interesting and memorable right there. You have three. Did you see it? Putting things into trios helps people to remember them better You can use it in your words You can use it in your organization. Maybe you have three sub topics that you want to discuss okay And The next one is using stories stories are so powerful because they connect to people's emotions And when you tell a story It creates an empathy between you and your audience Whether those are your students Or whether they are your colleagues. It doesn't matter because you want to focus on something that They will understand They have gone through an emotion that you've experienced Okay, next you want to vary your methods. Why do you think you want to vary your methods? Change them up Yeah, you don't want to be boring Exactly so you can keep your audience with you, right? They'll be engaged Instead of picking up their mobiles and talking to the person next to them Right keeping students engaged in the lesson is very difficult clarity You want to have clarity in what you're saying Notice even my slides are simple Right, we don't need all these big words I know lots of people that feel that they have to use fancy words If they want to make an impression But honestly The average Person doesn't speak like that. They don't speak in all those fancy words The most important thing is that your message gets crossed So you want to keep it simple and sweet All right, finally Finish with power This is where you want to really push that message That you would like your audience to remember Because the science has shown That They might remember a few things within the body of your presentation But the thing they remember the most is the ending Even when I was taking a class by the world champion of public speaking 2020 what 2015 DTM Muhammad al-Qatani He told me he spent only a few days Maybe a week writing his winning speech And then he spent two weeks on the last sentence Because he wanted it to have Power And he wanted it to give that message that powerful message that he really wanted them to walk away with So you want to don't just say thank you very much. No, no And that's it. No, you want to leave with power Okay, moving on How do you tell a story? Right, we all tell stories. We tell stories to our children. We hear stories from the elder people in our family Everybody tells stories. Oh my gosh. Did you let me tell you about the traffic today? When you were looking at Telling a story And I'm going to make you tell a story soon. So keep it in mind All right, you're going to start here where you give a little bit of an idea of what's happening And then you have rising action You can use your rule of three here and have three actions That are leading up to a climax in your story Generally, you have some kind of a problem that you're going to hit here, right? A character in a story. Oh, it's having a great day at work when bam You know something happened, right? And then all of these things started happening after it until the climax is But finally you resolved it And the action starts falling Okay Big things are happening here and you have finally resolved the problem Okay Good Yeah All right now I want you to share your story And apply what you learned What we're going to do is something called an impromptu Where you have just one to two minutes And you can use a story that you have to connect Basically, I want you to tell a two-minute story One to two minutes. Okay one to two minutes. You're like two minutes I saw that face One to two minutes Where you came across a problem or you were struggling with something whether you're struggling with something at work or at school And then you resolved it. You got it figured out And you got past that problem Okay Can you think of one? Now let's move on to delivery techniques Okay, how can you deliver a presentation to make it memorable? First of all, the question you want to ask is am I communicating my message? This is the most important thing for you to do Is to communicate the message that you have chosen For your audience and sometimes it's not so clear. Are they getting it? I mean you see their faces or maybe you can't and it's like They're getting it. They're not getting it. I'm not sure so experts agree that 70 to 93 percent of communication is non verbal Not related to words It has everything to do with nonverbal communication What the heck is nonverbal communication? First of all, we've got body language When you are giving a presentation One of the things that you want to consider is Here's your space, right? How are you using it? If you stay only in one spot the entire time Especially I've got two rows here of tables. I don't want to spend all my time over there I want to have some time over here so I can see the audience better Right and they can see me better Because when we are in eye contact We actually understand better Then you want to be able to use it well Okay, uh, I mean, I don't have to do everything, right? I can come all the way over here I can use here But I want to stay within the area where I can be seen both Here in person and on the camera right now I'm heading over and out of camera range seat and kejutan wants to fix it But I'm just going to have to move over You have to know When you've got an online box, right? It's it's far more limiting Also your hand gestures when you are talking to people in general, it's good to have hands that are open Okay, this communicates to people that you are open to them If you are like this The whole time or your hands are like this or your hands are like this Okay, it's communicating something else If I'm sitting here like this, what does this communicate to you? Yes, I might seem angry Right, I might seem angry or closed off Okay Um, and if I'm like this if I'm walking too fast, okay Hey, I gotta watch out for that People get nervous When they get nervous they pace I've seen students do all kinds of things. They they go like this too Right or or the women with the hijab or the men with their retro. It's you know This kind of thing, right? So you want to watch what your hands and your feet are doing Oh, yes, the nose the glasses my glasses are always a problem Also, when you want to point if you point like this What does that feel like as on the on the receiving end if I'm like this you're like, what did I do? But if I do this You see now it's not threatening Just something so simple Right putting your fingers in And having your thumb be the pointer Now it's no longer threatening, but they're still making it clear Another thing that you could do with your hand gestures to make it clear That If let's say if you have three points you could do one two three or even one two three All right, things like this will emphasize What you're doing? and these Physical hand gestures will help all right facial expressions Your facial expressions are important You want to smile if you have no expression on your face if you are just like this the entire time Are you going to be able to connect to your audience? No, they're going to be like oh my gosh. Is it a real person or is it a robot? Okay Artificial intelligence who knows? Okay, so you want to be able to have your facial expressions Matching your content. What is it? You're talking about if you are talking about a struggle that you went through Maybe your face would look like this something that you're very concerned about And if you're talking about something joyful You'll want to smile because you're communicating that message through your smile Even if your words don't comprehend They don't reach the person your smile will So our facial expressions are very powerful Our stance that means how are we standing? Now some people do this Okay, and they're on one hip Okay, or they're like one leg Standing like this. This does not Give Confidence it doesn't give off that feeling of competence. So you'll want to be Put your feet at shoulder Length Okay, and then you want to slightly be on your toes only a little bit forward This allows you to move easily Okay, have you ever just stand up one minute stand up? Okay Put your feet at shoulder width. Okay now Feel like the weight is on the back of your heels How easy is it to move? Now switch it move it forward shift your weight forward onto your toes. Can you move easily now? All of a sudden you can move Yeah, it makes a big difference The other thing in your stance that you want to work on is your shoulders back You don't want your shoulders forward So as you are in your stance with your on your toes so you can kind of Feel that then your shoulders are back and your chin is up. Okay, not down Right Now that's a powerful stance And you will come across Much more confident and you will feel more confident Thank you very much. Have a seat got you a nice stretch didn't it? All right The last thing I want to talk about are some online limitations When we are looking at presenting online We if you are not like this, you're not in a hybrid meeting and you have a camera and you're presenting that camera usually if you are in Using your uh laptop camera. It's quite limited Right. Kajit has this great wide-angle lens that he is using And it's allow allowing me to go forward and back And not be too far away from the camera so they can still see my expressions But when you are dealing with something on zoom Then suddenly you are Limited in the amount of space you have if you are seated Then you're going to want to make a point of doing a lot of facial expressions You'll want to make a point to bring your hands up into the view of the camera Right because usually it's only catching here. And if you're making gestures like this They probably can't see it on the camera Okay on your laptop camera. So you want to make sure that your gestures come up higher All right good now The most important thing is that you communicate right So if I have to make a funny face and tell you That things are crazy Okay, and make myself silly no problem. You got the point didn't you? all right now Moving on to the voice. This is the second thing of nonverbal communication and it is so powerful There are four P's that I want to tell you about The first one yeah P they start with the letter P Okay, so What do you think it might be? from this picture You won't know this is pitch pitch Yes, that talks about the tone of your voice. Okay then How fast which is the pace Okay, instead of pacing like this now we're talking about the rate That you are speaking or the speed at which you are speaking so pitch pace Then What is that? Yeah, say it I heard you pause. Yeah pauses You need to pause when you're speaking right People need time to digest the information and what do you think this is? Volume another way to say it is power Okay, so we're going to go over these four So when you vary your pitch you are looking at a high or a low tone Okay, your tone of voice and we have three voices Have you ever heard somebody who speaks up here in their nose? Okay This person is using their head voice and have you ever heard somebody who's very Whispy they it's just like here. They're not getting much breath. Okay. They are using the middle voice But what we really want to do is use the chest Okay, and use The power that we have In the diaphragm Okay, because our diaphragm and our breathing are the ones that are going to help us To get a powerful voice, but the interesting thing is Especially in storytelling you can use all three And make it very interesting Right for example Maybe you have a neighbor who is always bothering you as an eagle point Tell me this and that and this and that And then maybe you have a little old lady. She's talking about oh honey Don't worry about it. Maybe it's your grandmother. Just don't you bother about the neighbors? And then you have your father and your father's got a very deep voice So now you can use all three And it catches the audience's attention. It helps them to distinguish who is speaking And it gives you more power So you want to vary that pitch Use those three voices Also, when you are asking a question Have you seen my wallet? Did you hear my voice go up at the end of the question? In English we do this. Have you seen my wallet? Okay Keep that in mind If I say have you seen my wallet? Do you see how different that is? What did I communicate? I said the same words Exactly the same words But my tone my pitch changed I went from Asking a question To accusing you of something Do you see the difference? So you have to be careful when you are doing that Be careful and know when to use that properly Especially if you're if you're talking to your little kids Ah Have you washed your hands as you're looking at their hands all dirty, right? You know, they haven't watched their hands And they'll say um, yes Yes, I washed my hands Okay another thing When you are changing your pitch it adds emotion And how do we connect to people we connect through emotion? So Think about how your voice changes with emotion. I just gave you an example here, right? My voice went up here and here it actually went down And it was a lower, right? Maybe if you're upset What does your voice do when you're upset? What is your voice? It cracks. Maybe it cracks. Yeah, maybe your voice cracks Oh, yeah, it might what about if you're really really happy or excited? What does your voice do? Maybe it squeaks It might go really high Okay, so it depends on what you're talking about, right? And it depends on the emotion that you want to communicate But you do want to avoid extremes. You don't want to go Everybody's gonna go Right and you don't want to be down here waiting to know because that's about as low as I can go And it sounds weird, right? Okay, all right, so you want to avoid the extremes good now. Let's move on We've talked about pitch now. We're going to talk about pace. Remember, this is our speed zone It's how slow or how fast you are speaking okay You want to avoid extremes? Have you ever sat in a presentation where the person was talking at a mile a minute was like Okay, we're gonna go over here And you're like What did he say? Did you hear what he said? I didn't hear what he said, right? It's so fast And sometimes when we get very nervous We start speeding up And the opposite of that I call that speedy Gonzalez, by the way I don't know how many of you are old enough to know about the cartoon the little mouse speedy Gonzalez. I'm delay. I'm delay anyway, so He goes super fast And the next one is super slow and I've had people do that too They are trying To remember The words Okay, and they go so slow you're like Okay, speak speak, you know, I mean even you feel like you want to lean in and help them for crying out loud Right, so you want to avoid those two extremes? But you can use them Right, you can use them in different places But not too much right just little bits give people a taste of oh, I was so excited daddy Did you see what I got after school? Okay fast All right, and then I'm really upset dad Nobody likes me now. I slowed it down. Okay, but it wasn't severe, right? You want to avoid the severity But you want to use it to make an impact all right The other thing You want to do is avoid getting stuck in a rhythm Have you ever heard like the drum? They will beat maybe you will speak in a rhythm Da da da da da I went down to the store and then I went to the house and then I went To the right if you keep repeating that rhythm some people do it Right, they get into a rhythm and they just repeat it and repeat it and repeat it and people start Falling asleep, right Because even though you've got a variety in your tone, it's still too repetitious All right You want to listen To those beats Where are you putting the stress on your words? Okay all right and word groups when you are Breaking up sentences into word groups. It helps you For example, I want to go home Okay, instead of I want to go home. Do you see the difference? It helps to communicate it better and as we can see later we can play around with that and change our meanings to Open your book to page 35 Notice there's a very slight pause in the middle there If I use the word groups, it makes it easier to read makes it easier to remember Now going into pauses in some more detail These are taking short stops while speaking You can do it between the word groups just like I was telling you and they will add meaning for example I want to go home Not you I want to go home open your book to page 35 Not your laptop not your phone right, so now just by adding a pause and stressing Some of the syllables or some of the words it is now changing the meaning of what I am saying You also want to say it before an important give a pause before an important message This gives your audience a heads up What I'm going to say now Is important I just want to say this It's really important to me notice the pause Unless if I didn't pause if I just said I want to say this it's important to me now you've lost the impact Do you hear it? I just want to say It's important to me Okay That pause signaled your listeners To key in This is something important The other thing that you want to do with pauses if you have a punchline A funny joke All right, I don't know that many jokes, but let me tell you one that I know There was a mushroom And he walked into the restaurant and he said The waiter came up to him. He said can I have a coke, please? And the waiter looked at him and he said we don't serve mushroom in here He says why not? I'm a fun guy Okay, I know Okay, so fun guy and fun guy, which means mushroom Okay So so it's a play on words Okay, why not? pause I'm a fun guy Right? It helps you to make that punchline or your joke more interesting And you can emphasize a word by pausing before it All right now Moving on to power It's pretty simple You do not want to have your voice shouting Like you're yelling at somebody across the field How are you doing if you're like this all the time in an area this small or online? Oh my god You're going to give them a headache And you're going to lose your voice Okay, but sometimes It can be used for impact right And I was coming around the curve in my car when bam See You jumped I used that very loud voice but very briefly and I immediately caught your attention And you're awake now Okay Then you have loud which is what I'm using here. I'm talking to a large group okay, and Regular voice which I might talk if somebody was standing here next to me Right make it maybe a little bit more difficult for you to hear me in the back And then you have a quiet voice now. I have lemmas here next to me and we're talking about Uh lemma. I can't do this. It's I don't know. I'm having problems with this Arabic letter. It kills me. Okay Or very quiet Actually, they call this a stage whisper And sometimes if you want to really touch somebody about an emotion Like when my mother passed away Then you can use a voice like this And it's powerful Even though it's quiet Right all of these things are giving you a vocal variety Now We're gonna practice Yay Okay, who wants to try pitch Okay pitch we're we're gonna do the three voices In your chest, okay, and you're just gonna say I am a great person. I'm a great person I'm a great person Pace we're gonna do fast and slow I can play with language I can play with language When you do it slow to get more effect you want to draw it out Like your your you take your vowels here. I can play with language I It makes them smile makes them laugh and still It remember you remember it next pauses I can use the strength of my voice Or I can use The strength of my voice How will you pause it? Where will you put your pauses as you can see we've got lots of different things now power I change my voice to make an impact I change my voice to make an impact All right use that power range right from big to little or little to big We've gone through our non-verbal communication and now I want to talk about how we use slides like in this presentation Okay You can see here the use of sides on the computer screen there It gets all of the edges And alhamdulillah this screen is big enough That it doesn't cut off any of my screen Okay, but sometimes it does so I want you to remember this acronym when you are talking about slides I want you to remember mail like I'm going to send you a letter through the mail m stands for measured because if you are using a screen in person how big is the screen If it's a gigantic screen like this and it would actually cover the whole thing Then I would have to make sure I have high definition pictures Okay, but this is a normal size right and if I am using the laptop Then I want to make sure that I have a some area that I can put the picture of the speaker Right without covering up everything the second one is animated All right, so you want to use animation When you are using a powerpoint you don't want people reading the the script ahead of you Right, you want them focused on what you are talking about at that time and animation is what allows you to do it It helps them to stay focused interesting How do we keep our slides interesting? Well, we can put funny pictures like this Or we can use color and charts Anything that is going to catch the eye The l what do you think l is for it's language? okay Basically when you are looking at your powerpoint you want to follow the rule of six by six Some people do it seven by seven. What does that mean? basically No more than six words in a line and no more than six lines down In a page Okay, and you'll notice I don't have full paragraphs anywhere Because what will happen is they will just read the paragraph and they won't listen to me Another way is to just keep it simple again simple and sweet All right, you don't need should not actually clutter everything up If it's too busy on your screen, you're gonna the audience is going to have trouble Keeping focused Okay, so now planning ahead Preparation and practice. What do you need to know before you go to speak? You need to prepare really well Make your to-do list And you're going to practice What do you need to know? You need to know how long is your speech going to be? Basically, if you have a five to seven minute speech, it's going to be about 700 words If you have a speech that involves humor Or things that I have punchlines that people might laugh Reduce that by about a hundred words. So you're going to be about 600 words Then will you have a question and answer session? in your presentation Will it be during the presentation at the end of the presentation? Where is it going to be? You need to plan for it How long do you have for that question and answer? Do you have five minutes 10 minutes? What is it? Next what is the available technology as you can see? I've got my laptop And I've got Kajetan's laptop And he's got a screen and we've got two cameras. We've got this screen There are many things that you can use and but if you want it to just be simple you can just have a computer Right with a laptop computer that's already on there And you don't always need a screen sometimes you can just have a whiteboard right Do you need a microphone? For me because I'm standing here and not next to the laptop. I do need a microphone Okay, if it's a really big haul and people are far away I need a microphone and I'm going to need speakers that are going to project my voice to the audience And what is the space that you can use? The best thing is to know the place that you're going go a day ahead If you can't go an hour ahead Walk around the space that you've got Understand how many steps can I take before I reach to the end? How many steps can I take to go from here? Where is my face in this? Horrible light here from the projector that's killing my eyes, right? That's the spot. I want to avoid Okay, you want to practice with those spaces and what helpers do you have available to you? I have DTM Kajutan and Saleh was here Earlier helping me set up Okay So do you have a tech person that's going to help you set up? Do you have if it's a large place? Maybe they would have an external microphone and that you would need the a person to take it to people to ask questions right We it's hard to do all of these things at once If you want to be able to focus on your presentation, it's better to have help Next is practice There are many things that you can do to practice and over the years Basically, these are the ones that I've come up with that I feel are the most important You should know what you're going to say instead of memorizing it When you memorize you memorize word by word and if you forget one word That's it you're lost But if you know what you want to say And you know it how how do you think you can learn it and know it? I know I want to talk about This part and then I want to talk about that part and then I'm going to tell a story about this Tell stories about your own life Right And you know your stories you don't have to memorize those words and You will almost never say the exact same thing each time you say it Right it changes just like we do if we're telling You know you tell your friend and and then she says oh, oh Sarah heard about it. I want you to tell your story again So you have to tell it again. Do you tell it exactly word for word? Did you memorize it? No, but you know the story Right. This is very important I highly recommend in a short speech that you Memorize your short beginning And you memorize your power message at the end Okay, and other than that just know what you want to say All right, if you chunk it it makes it easy to that power of three. I've got three points. I want to talk about right Okay, so I know that I want to talk about Uh in my story. I wanted to talk about I was working in a school And I was then I was asked to prepare a presentation for the first time And I did the presentation And it was successful Okay, that's all I need to know Did I memorize all of the words that I said during that story? No, but I I narrowed it down to a kind of an outline As I said the opening and the closing Now when you are practicing the amazing thing is our subconscious mind is an extremely powerful thing When it remembers things it stores memories as pictures Okay, so it's going to store this memory here. I'm looking out at you If you are practicing only like this In your home, let's say you're practicing in your bedroom or something right and you're practicing your speech And then suddenly you are in a totally different location And you have to go like this your subconscious is going to forget And you will not remember well But if you practice in multiple locations, even if it's something as simple as turning from here to here to here To here and saying it in those different locations It teaches our subconscious mind to focus on what you're saying instead of What you're seeing Okay, that way when you get up on the stage or in front of the other people You will be in a new location, but your subconscious says. Oh, yeah, I know I have to say this speech And won't be shocked About the new location. This will help you so much feedback How do you think we can get feedback on our speeches? What can we do to get some feedback? Ask questions. Okay, you can ask questions. You have somebody watching with you, right? Good a group discussion. Yes, you could you could do a group discussion Okay, you can have a quiz you can give a feedback form you can you can Do a poll right? If you're going to do this with a friend on zoom, let's say you can't meet up Right and you want to practice so Go ahead. You can have a form that you want or you can just ask Keep it simple and sweet right Ask your friends. Ask your family. Ask your colleagues If you're going to be delivering in front of your colleagues Ask one of your colleagues that you are very comfortable with And say could you please watch this for me and give me any suggestions? Okay Because when we do that we can get An outside perspective that we couldn't Get on our own Now another way to do it is to film yourself You can use zoom you can use your camera You can use your laptop Uh camera your phone camera and just videotape yourself. Nobody has to even know right? Nobody else has to see it only you Because sometimes we do those silly things right? You know with these repetitive movements And we don't notice it Until we watch ourselves And when we watch ourselves it can be very powerful Okay, I recommend watching twice the first time only focus on the content what you are saying And then the second time Focus on the nonverbals your voice And your body language in summary We talked about Choosing your topic and how to narrow it down and We talked about creating your speech Making it have impact and engage And we talked about the delivery techniques so that you could Communicate and make it memorable Then finally we talked about planning ahead with preparation and practice questions But and I'm sure the toast masters on the zoom are are counting my oz and ums Because in toast masters, that's one of the things that we do Yeah, we we actually have somebody who counts your filler words And that helps you to actually Get rid of them when I first started off in toast masters eight and a half years ago They called me the queen of oz and ums um um um Every time it was uh Uh Um, it really takes away from the message doesn't it? So this is one of the things that we learn about in toast masters being aware of it and if you have a situation like that It's about training yourself to pause. It's that another power of pause Pause instead of saying uh, thank you. Madam. Sandy. Hi For it was really amazing and eye-opening though. I'm still practicing more of this Uh, a few questions like that either if the session is say one hour or two hour lectures Do you think we can able to manage same enthusiasm and the pattern you are just sharing with us? Yes, I do it It you know, I do that in four classes a day But I don't do it every day. I do it three days a week And yeah, okay, and the key is that you don't need to be the speaker all the time You want to get your audience involved? Right, if you are a teacher you want to get your students involved have them do the talking Have them try it out. Have them have a discussion right And then you can be a guide and observer and you don't have to maintain that all the time Um, I just want to ask you very quickly. I'm I tend to be very shy when presenting Do you have any strategies or any techniques to reduce or to overcome shyness before you present? Yeah You know, everybody is nervous When when they are going to present even the professionals it's about learning to use that energy instead of letting that energy control you right And basically preparation and practice are one of your biggest helpers If you know your information and you are preparing and you have people you practice in front of smaller audiences Maybe just one person and then you make it two people three people I've had students that have actual disabilities with speaking And and phobias and so I would start off the semester having that student come into my office and they would present just to me Okay Yeah, and then they would invite a friend at their next time and then they would invite two friends And then we would do it in a classroom with those two or maybe three friends Right and just gradually build yourself up to it It's about going back to my very one of my first slides about stepping out of your comfort zone It takes time and practice, but you can do it Thank you Sandeep for uh for this amazing workshop I really like this I do have a question about role playing When did you learn to role play? As I can see you put different hats all at the same time and you're you look professional So how did you get this? This the skill let's say Practicing with your voice Honestly, you can you can watch shows you can I like to watch cartoons You know, I'm I'm a cartoon geek. I will admit it. I love cartoons and They're great for imitating Right and you want to imitate Mickey Mouse. Hi. Hi Mickey Mouse. Okay, and you know all of these different voices. It's about practicing and thinking about If you've got a story that you're telling with different characters. What is that knowing that character, right? What does that character look like? Do they is it an old person when they're stooped over? Okay, when they're walking and their voice is a little like this Okay Or is it a little kid who's you know like this and they're so excited and they're looking up because they're short Right, so they would be looking up at the adults Okay, it's about putting yourself into the shoes of that character you are portraying And it's about practice Oh my god adding lib is Big time Yes, you need to practice. That's one of the things that we do in toast masters that has helped me enormously We work on table topics, which is impromptu speaking And when you are doing impromptu speaking you learn to think quickly while you're on your feet Imagine you are For example in a in a meeting I used to sit in meetings and the meeting would finish And I'd be going home and I'm thinking oh my gosh. I should have said this. I should have said that Why didn't I say that I knew that? right And I would forget it all the time And when I got into toast masters I forced myself to do table topics over and over and over and over and over again So that it would teach my brain to think more quickly To respond to things and it's something that just takes time and practice I have one more thing before we go a message that I would like to tell you Why should we even speak at all? Why should we give presentations? Why do you think we should it can change things for the good? Chala yes To spread a message To share information To give to help other people. Okay. All right now It's also to make an impact Because if you make an impact in your presentation They will remember the information This lady is someone Who has made a huge impact in many people's lives. Does anybody know her name? No, not Oprah No, but she was a friend of Oprah her name is Maya Angelou She had this lovely quote She said I have learned That people will forget what you said And they will forget what you did But they will never forget How you made them feel And this is the message I want you to walk home with Thank you very much