Have you ever wanted to see what a speaker’s presentation looks like from?their?point of view??The one they see when they’re on the stage? The one they use to rehearse before they perform?
Then the luck of the Irish (or maybe just my retired Irish racing Greyhound, Walnut) is with you this week! I wanted to?share with you?the very Keynote file I presented?this past Tuesday in San Diego as the closing Day 2?keynote speaker at Social Media Marketing World ’22. (If you need the PowerPoint version, you can see it?here.) My only request: please don’t “steal” anything you see?here. You have your own big ideas to share!
Things you may be interested in or curious about:
- Yes, I build and design all my own slides.?It’s part of my rehearsal and prep (see the next point!).
- The presenter notes represent my draft “script,” but no, I didn’t memorize what’s there. My mantra is “internalize, don’t memorize,” and writing the notes out helps me internalize what I want to say on each slide and get a feel for how long it’s running (I cut a bunch of slides after I did the first pass on the notes).
- Because this was a brand new talk, and on a pretty important stage (2K people!),?I rehearsed however many times a bajeebus is, which is somewhere between?a fathom?and a?hogshead. The talk was designed to fill 45 minutes, and thanks to the rehearsal, I hit 45 minutes on the nose.
- The red slides are the?Red Thread Statements?of the talk (SO META), which means you can see where and how they’re distributed. Note that I did a “split”?Problem Pair: I introduced it in one form before the Truth and in its “final” form after.
- This is definitely a “why” talk.?You can see that in the nature of the content: I focused more on getting a big idea across than on?how to act on that big idea, though that’s in there, too. The “why” nature also shows up in the timing: the?Change?and?Actions?that mark the pivot to application happens 30 minutes in (with the Slap Chop video), which made the talk ? “why” and ? “how” (a very typical “why” distribution). Because I’d rehearsed so much, the Slap Chop video was a good check on how well I was doing on time. I ended up showing it about 33 minutes in, which meant I tightened some of the last ? of the talk on the fly.
I’m going to guess you’ll have questions I haven’t even thought about, and I definitely want to answer those, too. So if something catches your eye, or you want to know more about why or how I did something,?email me?and let me know!
