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Giorgio Boa
Giorgio Boa

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It depends is the magic phrase ๐Ÿ‘‰ 4 public speaking tips

It's been a long time since my first talk in 2018 and since that day I have never stopped trying to improve my way of communicating.
I want to share with you 4 tips that I learned in my journey.


1 - Each person has his way

Each person has his way of communicating and describing things and this is why even if a topic has already been treated, it is not said that you cannot do a talk about it.
Experience on the subject, way of seeing things, and way of communicating are making each talk unique.

2 - We can't know everything

We would like to know everything and this often prevents us from addressing certain topics, for sure the Q&A time is the scariest part of any session, but you cannot know everything so on that occasion you can say: it depends!
Am I joking? Yes and... No.
Often the questions we are asked are particular and set in a context that we do not know, the only thing to do in these cases is to answer by drawing on your own experience and perhaps postpone the conversation over a good coffee.

3 - Start from the message

When I prepare a talk I usually start with the list of topics I would like to cover and the tips I would like to share.
Having these points in mind, I start to imagine the slides and the layout I would like to obtain, this imaging activity allows me to save a lot of precious time.

4 - Don't prepare it too early

For my first speech, I started the preparation early, 2 months earlier, the result was that I studied a ton of articles and videos on the subject to be prepared for everything, two weeks before my speech I repudiated the topic I had to cover.
So the lesson here is to calibrate your effort in the talk preparation, now I learned the lesson and I prepare my talks a week or two before the conference.
Here you have to calibrate the talk construction at your own pace, but keep in mind my error because that feeling is really bad.

๐ŸŽ‰ Here are my 4 tips about public speaking ๐ŸŽ‰

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