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What a Speaker Should / Should Not Do? Doncho Minkov Telerik Corporation www.telerik.com

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Preparation Presenting Common Mistakes Presenter's Tools How to Make Demo? How to Demonstrate a Tool? Tips and Tricks for a Better Technical Training

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A teacher? A mentor? A Beast Master? The trainer is all of these things The trainer should have Loud voice Correct pronunciation Ability to talk in front of a public without the fear of questions or misunderstanding A professional in the sphere he/she is talking

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Before the Presentation Before the Presentation

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A speaker should always be prepared for the presentation For a junior speaker this may take up to 7-8 hours Depending on the length and content of the presentation More experienced speakers can improvise Not recommended Familiarity with the examples is always a plus Better to know what is coming next

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A speaker should be able to answer any question related to the presented subject Sometimes speakers are asked questions they cannot answer Do not say "I don't know" Say "Lets ask Google" instead and show the students how to work efficiently with Google Google skills are 'must have' nowadays You could say "I will check and will answer at the next lesson"

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When some parts of the presentation are unclear for the speaker, he has two choices Learn the unknown material Just remove the unclear parts (when possible) Be sure to examine as much as possible the expertise level of the audience Some audiences will like a more detailed (theoretical) presentation Some will prefer more practical with lots of real- life examples

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What to Do in Front of the Students?

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Speak very loud and clear Make sure the ending of a sentence is obvious Don't speak too fast, neither too slow Just speaks normally After finishing a section say something introducing the new section 'And now we are done with the int primitive data type, lets move on with the char data type' Uses as less as possible jargon phrases Except intentionally, e.g. when telling a joke

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Monotonousness makes people sleepy If you feel the audience is falling asleep Change the level and intonation of your voice A good way to control the monotonousness of your voice / prevent people from sleeping Try to tell a joke Show something extraordinary Ask a question No matter how stupid it is, its purpose is to wake the audience

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Ask yourself "Who is my audience?" Know your audience! What level of expertise they have? The speaker forget that a certain thing is obvious to him/her Just explain it as simple and understandable as possible When a 'smart guy' tries to mess with you Quick thinking and improvising are the best way to escape

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You should always remember You are "the speaker", "the expert", "the guru" The students are here to listen to you They have already respect for you Your job is not to let them down

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A trainer should always be confident in what he / she is talking about Do no use words and phrases like 'I don't know', 'I am not sure' Instead exchange them with 'Lets ask Google' or "What do you think?" Or wait for a student to answer or turn for help by accompanying trainers (if any) An exception of the usage of these words is when they are used intentionally When trying to make a joke

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The trainer should be always placed in the middle of the room Should be standing with face to the audience so that everybody can see him / her Always look at the audience Or just give an impression you are looking them If you are too nervous you can look a little higher If the speaker looks at the board the students start to feel like he is talking to someone else

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Remember that slides are only to help you It is better not to follow the slides exactly (word by word) The slides should only point what to talk about Most of the time the slides are not as full as it should be Don't hurry up through the presentation Wait for the appropriate slide to say the information about it If you explain a thing that comes later, when the slide comes you will have nothing to say

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The trainer should be standing up with front to the audience If you have something to show at the slides show it using some of the tools Avoid finger pointing The presentation should not be funny The slides do not need to contain jokes It is the speaker's job to make it funny and interesting

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During the Presentation

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Top mistakes: Silent voice Speak too fast / too slow and/or unclear Use of too much slang Talk about complicated concepts when not necessary, e.g. The presentation topic is "Introduction in HTML" The presenter talks about DOM Hierarchies, Multi Browser Hacks, Debugging JavaScript

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The students get annoyed when The trainer is nervous, disorganised The trainer is speaking monotonously instead of enthusiastic The presentation is unfinished or not done well Example: there are some images that are not only disconnected from the subject, but are ugly and with colouring not matching the template The trainer sounds confused Doesn't matter if he actually is or not, the students get what they see To here

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The students get annoyed when The trainer is nervous, disorganised This comes with the time Presenting the topic in front of the mirror gives some confidence and might help The trainer is speaking monotonously instead of enthusiastic The presentation is not finished or not done well The trainer sounds confused

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The students get annoyed when The trainer is nervous, disorganised The trainer is speaking monotonously instead of enthusiastic Try smiling and changing the power of your voice Telling a joke from time to time might help The presentation is not finished or not done well The trainer sounds confused

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The students get annoyed when The trainer is nervous, disorganised The trainer is speaking monotonously instead of enthusiastic The presentation is not finished or not done well This is best resolved by asking for help from some of the more senior trainers The trainer sounds confused

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The students get annoyed when The trainer is nervous, disorganised The trainer is speaking monotonously instead of enthusiastic The presentation is not finished or not done well The trainer sounds confused Avoided with practice Get you husband, wife, girl/boyfriend and try to talk to them as they are students

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Telerikers deliver the lecture using Windows and PowerPoint There is no problem to use Linux or Mac if you are more accustomed to it You should rearrange the presentation OpenOffice messes PowerPoint presentations But you will be more comfortable using your platform It is always better to know how to run a given application

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Microsoft Power Point PP has built-in tool for drawing and highlighting Press F1 for details ZoomIt http://tinyurl.com/ZoomItDownload http://tinyurl.com/ZoomItDownload Tool for zooming the screen PowerPoint-like functionality for drawing These tools works only on Windows You should search for equivalents on the other platforms

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Live Demo

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Demo Demonstration

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Key points when making a demo 1.Speak loudly and comprehensively 2.Make as much demos as you can Doing only the premade demos is not enough The trainees should see a demo from the scratch 3.The demo should be clearly visible by everybody in the room Use ZoomIt or another magnifying software 4.Ask as many questions as you can Questions like "Is this class name appropriate?", "Where is that exception thrown from?"

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While making the demo the trainer should explain what he/she is doing Talk during the whole demo Sometimes it might seem pointless but it is not! Explain simple things like: "Now we will make a class, and what should we call it? Maybe CarShopBudget? Or just ShopBudget? What do you think?" Asking questions during the demo is essential

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Make sure whether the following are Ok Is the font large enough so that everybody can see what he/she is doing? Do not use any hotkey shortcuts Use the buttons or tell everybody what you are doing, i.e. the key combination Makes the demo as slowly as he can and explain everything he does When some button is about to be pressed Magnify the button, highlight it, etc. Everybody should see which buttons you press Magnifying tool helps a lot

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When there is some time left unfilled (Visual Studio is loading) Continue talking about things slightly connected to the subject This is a way to prevent the audience from falling asleep

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Live Demo

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A presentation should always be available A presentation should always be available The presentation help both the trainer and the students The trainer has table of contents so that he/she does not forget to show something The student have a guideline to use later one Not everything can be remembered on the moment The presentation could not be detailed Just some key points to follow

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The tool demonstration should be as slowly and detailed as possible If a button is clicked it should be pointed, magnified and/or highlighted No shortcut hotkeys should be used The student cannot see what you are pressing Use the old-fashioned way with the Menu If using a hotkeys you must say, write the key combination If a question pops out, stop the demo, answer it, then continue with the demo

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Live Demo

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A trainer that gives examples from real life Use div, because., use Dictionary when A trainer with real life experience is always better than one without When a question pops out The trainer should not only answer the question He/she should show it if possible Use Google if you don't know the answer It very important to teach the students how to find a solution to their problem without help

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When a question is repeat it out loud That way everybody gets what is the question We videotape each presentation and this way everything is documented Bring water when delivering a lecture The throat get dry from time to time When somebody asks you a more complicated question you can drink from the water This gives you precious three or four seconds to think about the question Can also be used when a new slide comes out and you forget what to say

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Live Demo

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