Attention
➢ Introduction
➢ Methodology
➢ Results
➢ Conclusions
Original
First I will give you a
brief introduction
to my work. Then I
will outline the
reasons that led me to
conducting this
research. Next I will
explain my
methodology
before discussing my
results.
Revised
First, I’d like to tell you about why I
am interested in incompetence in the
workplace. Then, I’ll be showing you
how we managed to investigate this
potentially embarrassing area in 10
different multinational companies.
And finally, I’ll show you our results
that indicate that around 80% of
middle managers have been
promoted into a position for which
they simply don’t have the skills.
How has the Internet affected
parent/child relationships?
The Internet has
➢ replaced time previously dedicated to family
interactions
➢ replaced educational role of parents
➢ given parents a mass of info on good parenting
➢ provided opportunities for shared entertainment
Original
The method was
carried out as
follows. Initially, X
was done which led
to a failure as a
consequence of . . .
The next attempt
involved . . .
Revised
First I tried this, but it
didn’t work because . . . so
I tried that . . .
unfortunately that failed
too probably because . . .
finally, one of the
members of research
group had a brainwave
and . . .
Original
OK, that’s all I wanted to
say at this particular point
about the infrastructure.
What I would like to do
next in this presentation
is to take a brief look at
the gizmo. This picture in
this slide shows a gizmo.
As you can see a gizmo is
a . . .
Revised
OK, here’s something
that you may not
know about a gizmo:
blah blah blah. In
fact you can
see here that a gizmo
is . . .
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1. you can slow down
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2. audience can relax
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3. regain their attention
Variety
1. turn the screen off
Variety
2. ask a rhetorical question
Variety
3. signpost: tell them where
you are in your presentation.
As you can see, this picture shows the
framework of our software and illustrates that
the storage of the information can be
arbitrarily distributed, that the registration of
the resources is guaranteed by a library, and
that the discovery of the information is
simplified by another library.
As you can see, this picture shows the
framework of our software and illustrates that
the storage of the information can be
arbitrarily distributed, that the registration of
the resources is guaranteed by a library, and
that the discovery of the information is
simplified by another library.
As you can see, this picture shows the
framework of our software and illustrates that
the storage of the information can be
arbitrarily distributed, that the registration of
the resources is guaranteed by a library, and
that the discovery of the information is
simplified by another library.
As you can see, this picture shows the
framework of our software and illustrates that
the storage of the information can be
arbitrarily distributed, that the registration of
the resources is guaranteed by a library, and
that the discovery of the information is
simplified by another library.
So here’s the framework. jscope has loads of
features. [pause for two seconds while
audience looks at the diagram] I particularly
like three things about it. First, you can get
anyone to store the info, completely randomly.
Second, this library here took us months to
compile. But what it does is to guarantee that
resources are registered. Third, this other
library helps you to find the info you want.
So here’s the framework. jscope has loads of
features. I particularly like three things about
it. First, you can get anyone to store the info,
completely randomly. Second, this library here
took us months to compile. But what it does is
to guarantee that resources are registered.
Third, this other library helps you to find the
info you want.
So here’s the framework. jscope has loads of
features. I particularly like three things about
it. First, you can get anyone to store the info,
completely randomly. Second, this library here
took us months to compile. But what it does is
to guarantee that resources are registered.
Third, this other library helps you to find the
info you want.
So here’s the framework. jscope has loads of
features. I particularly like three things about
it. First, you can get anyone to store the info,
completely randomly. Second, this library here
took us months to compile. But what it does is
to guarantee that resources are registered.
Third, this other library helps you to find the
info you want.
Conclusions:
• what did you find?
• was it what you expected?
• what does it mean?
• why should we be interested?