The document provides guidance for speakers at an upcoming TEDx event at BITS Pilani, KK Birla Goa Campus. It discusses understanding the audience, sharing stories over information, designing effective presentations without overusing slides, and techniques for engaging delivery including writing for the ear, maintaining energy, connecting with the audience, owning the stage, and enjoying oneself. The overall message is that ideas need to be effectively communicated and stories can inspire audiences more than lists of facts.

1. Speaker Training Kit
19th February, 2012
BITS Pilani, KK Birla Goa Campus
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4. Ideas need help
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5. “One of the most tragic things
in the world is a powerful idea
stuck inside the head of someone
who can’t actually explain it
to anyone else.”
Chris Andersen, TED
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8. PLANNING
Know your Audience
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10. TEDxBITSGoa Audience Map
Students, corporates, Goan community
To Listen to your story
A desire to get inspired; a story to look up to
Be passionate about your own story; allow
them to interpret it their way
i.e Just listen/interact/participate
Might get bored/shift expectations
Sharing the passion that has driven your
life’s story
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11. PLANNING
Reach your Audience
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12. Presenter Reach-out Criteria
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13. PLANNING
Share your own story
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14. Information ≠ Story
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15. Resonance waveforms of ideas
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16. Components of a TEDx story
Desire for The BIG Process of Effect of
change IDEA Change change
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17. Story for the audience
Analytical and Logical Emotional Tweet-worthy or quotes
10%
52%
38%
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20. Do you need slides?
No compulsion at all
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25. Slides are slides
Documents are Documents
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26. Presentation Landscape
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28. Design, don’t decorate
Design: To make or work out a plan for
Decorate: To adorn, embellish, beautify
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29. DESIGN
Visualizing Information
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30. Stories to image
Move beyond the cliché.
Throw out the first thing that you think of.
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31. Teamwork
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32. Teamwork
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33. Words to diagram
Identify the relationships described in the text
Represent those relationships in a diagram
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35. DESIGN
Arranging Elements
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36. Eye Flow
What do you look at first?
Distinct elements guide the eye
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37. Contrast
Your eye is drawn to the thing that is different
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38. Hierarchy
Treat things according to their importance
Annotate the proper parent and child relationships
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39. Rule of Thirds
Important compositional elements should be at
the intersections of the lines.
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40. White Space
Embrace white space. It focuses your attention
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42. DESIGN
Motion
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43. Slide Animation
It should add meaning
Use it to your advantage
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44. DESIGN
Unity
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45. Consistent look and feel
Consistency adds confidence in your message.
It also makes the information easier to digest.
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47. Background
This is the canvas not the artwork
Plain does not mean boring..
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48. A dark background with light
text is better for large audiences
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49. Grid
It gives your presentation a consistent structure.
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51. 1. Write for the ear not the eye
Shorter, simpler sentences.
Clear signposts.
Different structure – start strong.
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52. 2. Keep the energy up
Don’t bore people.
If you don’t care, no one else will.
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53. 3. Connect
Engage with the audience.
Connect to the theme, to the other speakers.
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54. 4. Own the stage
Don’t hide in the corner.
Take the stage and own it.
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55. 5. Have a great time
Don’t stress.
Enjoy yourself.
Laugh.
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57. THANK YOU
Organizing Team @TEDxBITSGoa
*we sincerely thank Cheryl Chung and Nancy Duarte for the indispensible help provided
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