giving an effective lecture: making your next teaching presentation better
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Giving an Effective Lecture: Making Your Next Teaching
Presentation Better
Andy Fine, MD, FACPaf34784@yahoo.com
303-388-4500 cell
Goals/ objectives
• The goals of this presentation will be to convince you that you need effective presentation skills, teach you some effective public speaking skills, and motivate you to work on these skills.
• We will review tips and model behaviors that will enable you to make your next presentation go better
Objectives
• Organize a teaching presentation with special emphasis on an effective opening and strong closing
• Demonstrate/model helpful presentation techniques
• Create and deliver presentations more effectively
• Constructively criticize the future presentations of others when you listen to them
Session Overview
• Didactic Presentation interweaved with small group breakouts
• Presenting yourself
• Multimedia tricks
• Top 10 tips for successful presentations
• The secret of life
Improving Your Presentations
• Why do physicians need skills in public speaking?
• Can we improve our skills in public
speaking?
Presenting Yourself andYour Credentials
• Opening slide
• e-mail address
• Written introduction for host
PowerPoint SurveyMost Annoying
• Speaker reading slides 60%• Text too small 51%• Having the slides typed out incompletely full sentences. 48%
• Hard to see colors 37%• Overly complex charts 22%• Moving /flying text 24%
Don’t let the slides take away from you• Major Criteria
– F ≥ 39 for ≥ 7d– Arthralgias or arthritis ≥ 2 weeks– Characteristic rash– Leukocytosis (≥ 10000, ≥ 80% granulocytes)
• Minor Criteria– Sore throat– Recent lymphadenopathy– Hepato- or splenomegaly– Abnl LFTs (esp. transaminases and LDH)– Neg. (or low titer)ANA and RF
• Exclusion: Malignancy, Infection, other CTD
• Patient– Quotidien fever (evenings)– Arthralgias for several
weeks– Transient pink rash on torso
associated with fever– Leukocytosis (WBCs 54000,
predominant neutrophils)
– Sore throat– Cervical LAD– Mild SM on CT scan– Mild transaminitis– Neg ANA and RF
– Ferritin 762
PowerPoint BasicsHeadings 36-40 Point Type
• Use preferably 32 (this!) text point type….smallest recommended: 24 (this!)
• this is 28
• Use Arial
• Times New Roman harder to read from the back of room
UPPERCASE vs. Mixed Case
• IT WILL TAKE THE AUDIENCELONGER TO READ SLIDES THATARE ALL UPPER CASE
• Instead use only uppercase toEMPHASIZE specific text
• Better still use bold or color instead
AV IssuesInsider Tips
• Don’t have pagers/phones on (even insilent mode) with a lavaliere mike
• Mike Position: 2 fists below chin
• Keep mike close to center
• Watch interference from scarf or hair
Top Ten TipsNumber 10
• 10. Meet the needs of the audience
• So what?
• Who cares?
• What’s in it for me?
9. Have a clear purpose
• what goals do you wish to accomplish
• difference between subject, title,
and purpose
8. Organize the presentation
• opening statement
• limited number of points
• strong closing
• graceful exit
• let me summarize the key points
• a question I am often asked….
7. Eliminate unnecessary information
• 6. Don’t go overtime• 5. Concentrate on delivery:
• face the audience• change your voice inflection• slow down• use pauses• no lazers!
4. Make it a performance
• smile
• enthusiasm
• hand gestures
● tell a story
• Use videos/ pictures
It’s not what you say but how you say it
What gets communicated
7% words
38% voice
55% Body Language
What you remember
• Listen 5%
• Read 10%
• Lecture and slides 20%
• Discussion 50%
• Practice 75%
The Secret of Life
• Do the things you really want to do
• Be with the people you care about
3.Take the edge off of nervousness
• most anxiety doesn’t show
• comfortable posture
• voice• eye contact
• be prepared
Top Two Tips
• 2. Be funny
Joke about yourself not others
• 1. Practice, Practice, Practice
After Each PresentationCreate a Chart
What Went Well:1) Opening hook2) Enthusiastic3) Hand gestures
Areas to improve:1) Slow down2) Smile3) Repeat questions
Presentation Goals
• Get your buy-in• Teach tips to improve your futurepresentations• Motivate you to work on improvingthese skills• Demonstrate these skills• Improve your constructive critiques ofcolleagues
If You RememberOnly 3 things….
• Organize the presentation
• Make it a performance
• Your presentation skills, are as
important as your message
Practice
• Out loud, in front of mirror, or to a friend
• The more you practice the better you’ll be
If You RememberOnly 3 things….
• Organize the presentation
• Make it a performance
• Your presentation skills, are as
important as your message
You best teacher• To finish, here is a quick exercise: think of the best teacher you have ever known. Perhaps• someone from your professional education, or perhaps a high school or primary school teacher, a• music teacher, or sports coach! What was it that made this teacher outstanding?• Most health professionals cite from the following list of characteristics:• ◆ patience;• ◆ respect;• ◆ humor;• ◆ compassion;• ◆ feedback;• ◆ interaction;• ◆ authority and engagement;• ◆ enthusiasm and encouragement;• ◆ awareness of teaching moments;• ◆ emphasis on learning from mistakes;• ◆ balance between discipline and enjoyment;• ◆ concern with process and perspective, not just content;• ◆ commitment to, and confidence in, the learner’s experience•
Gratitude To The Unknown Instructors
What they undertook to do They brought to pass; All things hang like a drop of dew Upon a blade of grass.
William Butler Yeats
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