Expert Tips for Delivering a 15-Minute Talk Effectively
Discover practical advice for giving an impactful 15-minute talk in a limited timeframe. Learn how to engage your audience, structure your presentation, and deliver key points effectively. From crafting a compelling introduction to highlighting significant results, this guide will help you optimize your talk for success.
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How to give a 15 minute talk (in 15 minutes) Jarrett Byrnes UMass Boston
Dates of Importance Wed the 13that a location TBD Final Presentation Wed the 20that 5pm Final paper due 10-12 page intro, methods, results, discussion format Fri the 22rdat 5pm Final date for midterm revisions
How to give a 15 minute talk (in 15 minutes) Jarrett Byrnes UMass Boston
Start with a general intro Something Conceptual Maybe And remember, no more than 1 minute per slide
But by slide three, you must hook them Was that picture exciting to you? Do you now want to see more?
And Now your Talk Outline 1. The first part of the talk 2. Using few words 3. Parting thoughts
GET THE AUDIENCE TO UNDERSTAND YOUR PRIMARY MOTIVATING QUESTION FOR PART 1
Methods to Answer Question Don t spend too long here A GREAT PICTURE/EXPERIMENTAL DIAGRAM Give detail that folk need Treatment 1 Maybe something awesome Treatment 2
DONT YOU WISH THIS SLIDE WAS A PICTURE OF YOUR EXPERIMENTAL SETUP?
DONT YOU WISH THIS SLIDE WAS A PICTURE OF YOUR MAIN RESULT? Picture are worth 10,000 words if they are clear
Data Slide with Evocative Title Category 4 Category 3 Series 1 Series 2 Category 2 Series 3 Category 1 0% 50% 100% Central Message: I will fail anyone that uses 3-d cone plots
Dont Confuse the Viewer With Too Many Panels Category 4 Category 4 Series 1 Category 3 Series 1 Category 3 Series 2 Series 2 Category 2 Category 2 Series 3 Series 3 6 Category 1 Category 1 4 0% 50% 100% Series 1 0% 50% 100% 2 Series 3 Series 2 This slide is an abomination 0 Series 1 Series 3 Category 4 Category 4 Series 1 Category 3 Series 1 Category 3 Series 2 Category 2 Series 2 Series 3 Category 2 Series 3 Category 1 Category 1 0% 50% 100% 0% 50% No more than 2 panels/slide 100%
Brief Summary Main Result You should have spent most of your time talking about results, not methods Pause to give audience breath Some will wake up from sleeping Or fall asleep
And Now your Talk Outline 1. The first part of the talk 2. Using few words 3. Parting thoughts
PART 2 ELABORATES ON PART 1, DEEPENS OUR UNDERSTANDING
Slides Should Have Few Words But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure? Truth is relative
Titles Help Sleeping Students Point 1 5 4 3 Point 2 Series 1 2 Series 2 1 Series 3 0 Series 3 Series 1 Some conclusion Title should have summarized this
Be a Dynamic Presenter Annunciate Vary your energy level in talk Be excited Plant your feet, don t wander with no porpoise Plant jokes
And Now your Talk Outline 1. The first part of the talk 2. Using few words 3. Parting thoughts
My Findings I found a think And another thing With few words
Bring it all Together Something Conceptual Maybe Something Else Conceptual This is how I have changed the world
Acknowledgements Who helped you: The Academy, Crabs, Limpets, Spartina, Nature, Science, Darwin, The Ghost of Competition Past Awesome picture behind this (i.e. sunset Slide)
