Ken Tabor shares his tips on how to over come imposter syndrome and give a presentation to peers.

He used emojis to illustrate a story with humor

• Be authentic
• Open your mind
• Be a servant to your community

Why speak publically? So many good reasons:

• Influence
• Advance your career
• Teach others go to events for free
• Meet new people
• Learn more

1. Point of view

• Don’t measure yourself up to an imaginary gauge

2. Preparation

•  People worry about preparing
• This leads to procrastination

3. Presenting

• People are worried about others judging them and things going wrong

Over come your worries, fear and doubt

1. Find your voice
2. Sharpen your understanding
3. Give knowledge to others

• Be authentic and smash the idea that your point of view is not valid or good
• Don’t wait for your opinion to be fully formed
• You don’t have to be a subject matter expert
• Think about your skills and experience that you can show others
• Pass your expertise to the next generation
• Find a crowd that doesn’t know
• People are open to learning because we must to survive

• Write down all of the things you know – brainstorm
• Delete the things that you hate
• Keep the ones you think that others would want to know
• Keep topics that would work at a conference lanyard.com for conferences

• Write a great title
• Write a great description
• Drop names of other speeches
• Put in skills and credentials
• Add something personal and fun so the person can bond with you

Submission Checklist

• Title
• Description
• Personal bio
• Speaking history
• Blog, twitter, apps, websites
• Headshot
• Video sample

• All stuff is reusable and you can build off what you have created
• Always be writing
• Give yourself time to write and don’t creativity
• iAwriter is a not frills word processing program to help you write. It eliminates all the distractions of MS Word
• Trello is good place to organize projects and notes
• Create a custom design (for your slides) so it has a unique look
• Examples: speakerdesk.com slideshare.net

Practice

• You can even practice in front of an empty room
• Make sure you are speaking out loud
• You need an idea of pacing

• Check out the room before you speak
• Be open. If you are rejected for a talk, do a workshop. Just do anything.
• Speak to Teach. Present to learn.

• Start with a story
• Take us on a journey
• Don’t thank organizers
• Don’t give bio
• Don’t say you are nervous

• Your audience wants to learn from you and they want to succeed.
• Square breathing technique: inhale/exhale for 4 seconds. This will help calm your nerves.
• Look at Amy Cuddy’s Ted Talk for body language
• Our behavior can drive our beliefs.

• You’re empowered to be awesome, so show them that you are.
• Use cheat mode/ speaker notes in software to help you remember what you want to say.
• Make everyone around you feel better.
• It may seem strange, but give away “trade secrets” or share what you know.