How to Enliven Your Scientific Presentation
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The document discusses key success factors for effectively communicating research data, emphasizing the importance of engaging an audience emotionally before presenting factual information. Rick Parmely, founder of Polished and Professional LLC, provides strategies such as developing a compelling narrative, simplifying data, and incorporating audience interaction to enhance presentations. It also suggests concluding presentations with a strong statement to leave a lasting impression on listeners.
How to Enliven Your Scientific Presentation
- 1. Key Success Factors to Communicate Research Data Effectively Brought to you by Principal Investigators Association Expert comments provided by Rick Parmely, founder of Polished and Professional LLC. www.principalinvestigators.org Phone: 1-800-303-0129 Email: [email protected] Public Speaking For Scientists
- 2. I struggle with converting my research results and data into interesting discussions at national meetings. Are there any tips that can help me to enliven my presentations and still keep a focus on the meat of my research – the data? Reader question:
- 3. Many presenters we hear at national meetings do struggle to provide more than a recitation of facts and data. To a large degree, audiences have even come to expect that a serious research project will contain facts, figures, plots, and tables, and little else. ExpertComments: By Rick Parmely
- 4. While presenting your data is essential, audience engagement does not have to suffer when revealing results of great research. What can be done?
- 5. to appreciate a basic principle It is necessary at the outset of all public speaking:
- 6. In order to appeal to the mind of a listener you must first find a way to appeal to the Heart
- 7. If the heart is not engaged, the mind starts to wander. Once the mind of your listener starts to wander, very little of what you say will be heard or remembered. Why?
- 8. So when you begin to build the outline for your next presentation, ask yourself What aspects of my research will touch the audience? What key concepts absolutely must be communicated? How can I tell the story of where we began this project, who was involved, what has been accomplished by others, and how important the completion of this project is to the science or to people’s lives? What data must be presented to tell that story? What can the listener take away from my discussion? these questions Answering these questions will enable you to develop the “skeleton,” the outline, from which you can then build a powerful talk.
- 9. of your skeleton outline! Now, start putting “meat on the bones”
- 10. Develop a story from history, a recent news item, an observation in nature or another event that illustrates the essence of your talk.
- 11. Hold your presentation to a few main points and then limit your data to only the essential graphs, charts and tables that support those few key points.
- 12. Further involve the audience with well-planned questions that cause them to think and stay engaged. This That or
- 13. Finally, don’t forget a powerful conclusion!
- 14. Often, we as speakers end with one slide containing one word: Questions?
- 15. Ideally, questions will be entertained and answered throughout your talk. However, if the meeting format does not allow for that, but you are still seeking to elicit audience questions and feedback at the end of your talk, does that eliminate the need for an effective conclusion?
- 16. NO!
- 17. In this case, the wise presenter still concludes powerfully, either just before the Q and A section or immediately afterward. Why? The last words spoken will stay in the mind of the listener the longest. So make those words your best words!
- 18. Now Try It!
- 19. Develop an outline with a few key points, wrapping the entire presentation in a reasonable story or illustration.
- 20. Apply simplicity to your data; avoid delivering data that is not critical to your argument or data that lacks clarity. And finally
- 21. Tying the many parts together into a neat, cohesive package. CONDLUDE POWERFULLY!
- 22. With these few tips, your talk will actively engage your audience and your presentation will indeed be a great success!
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