So You Want to be a TED Speaker? How to Stand Out from the Crowd – RTC News

With only 8 weeks to go till BILT ANZ, all of the speakers will be spending a lot of time over the next month or so preparing their material and practicing their delivery. While we have the speaker webinar  aimed at helping our new speakers, even as an experienced speaker, I know I can always benefit from advice as to how to improve my presentations – particularly if I am trying a different format to one I have given in previous years.  So while we recently posted some light reading…this week’s focus is more serious reading for our speakers.

Where better to start than TED?  For me, having attended a couple of TEDx events, I have seen personally how amazing their speakers are.  This is where I want to get to! (Having once had the opportunity to stand of the TEDx stage – the prompt screen in the floor really helps).  The TED blog has heaps of articles for speaker tips. Worth checking out.

One of the most important parts of any presentation is your slide deck. A few…

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