For your presentation

Nightmare - Yours or of the audience?

• How often have you come out from a session room, wondering if you had really learnt something?
• Or, in a worse case, you are bored in the middle of a talk, and start doing something else.?
• Maybe I am too straightforward, but I guess we all have had such experiences. Possibly many times.
• Naturally, we attend a session or a talk expecting something to learn, and we all want to avoid such phenomena.
   
• How can we avoid this? Let us confirm the following:
1. The speaker is responsible for providing a comprehensive talk to the audience. I believe that this principle is understood by majority.
2. Nonetheless, we often encounter rather intractable talks. Why?
3. We all have the tendency that we want to advocate that what we have accomplished is great.
4. Nothing wrong with this, but it often leads to the desire that we want to show very technical details - perhaps concerned more about the views of specialists.
5. Now let's think: how many percentages of the audience can you count as VERY specialists as to be able to understand the top technicalities you have discovered? Perhaps very few.
6. The rest of the audience are attending your session, expecting to learn things like - what is the issue, what is the whole thing all about, and how would people normally approach the problem, etc.
7. Let's think about this: How much is the chance that even a specialist can follow the detail of your proof in a conference?
8. It is very often observed that we get lost on slide No. 2 or 3. This is such a waste of time and energy. If a speaker buys a resentment as a result of this, it is literally a nightmare.

• The only way to avoid this is to make your talk tutorial and comprehensive.
   
• Please take a look at the guideline showing some examples, as well.