Yeah but um basically

Are four words I need to remove from my vocab­u­lary when I give a talk.

I have just heard the pod­cast of my talk I gave to the Perth WSG. Other than using those four words appear­ing far to fre­quently, I am fairly happy with the res­ults. Even if I do not say enough, I ten­ded to gloss over things, often skip­ping words that I included in my notes to add detail. I also spoke too slowly, drop­ping down to a slow drawl on occas­sions, because I did not use enough words to explain the what I wanted in detail.

So if I ever get invited to another speak­ing event, I will need to write bet­ter notes, adding more detail, remem­ber to included all the details in my talk and talk at good pace.

Ser­i­ously, if you ever give a present­a­tion, record it, even if there is no inten­tion of doing any­thing with it, because listen­ing to it, you will know what to do bet­ter next time, and listen­ing to it is not that painful

The pod­cast and tran­script of the talk will be avail­able from the WSG shortly.

tagged pub­lic speak­ing present­a­tions giv­ing presentation

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