I really thought I might bomb. I was nervous right up until the moment I took the stage. But it ended up going fine. Here are some common mistakes that TED advises its speakers to avoid. Take a really long time to explain what your talk is about. Speak slowly and dramatically. Why talk when you can orate? Make sure you subtly let everyone know how important you are.
Refer to your book repeatedly. Even better, quote yourself from it. Cram your slides with numerous text bullet points and multiple fonts. Use lots of unexplained technical jargon to make yourself sound smart. Speak at great length about the history of your organization and its glorious achievements. Never, ever make eye contact with anyone in the audience.
Ultimately I learned firsthand what our speakers have been discovering for three decades: Presentations rise or fall on the quality of the idea, the narrative, and the passion of the speaker. If you have something to say, you can build a great talk. Decline the invitation. The single most important thing to remember is that there is no one good way to do a talk. The most memorable talks offer something fresh, something no one has seen before.
The worst ones are those that feel formulaic. Take the bulk of it on board, sure. But make the talk your own. Play to your strengths and give a talk that is truly authentic to you. You have 1 free article s left this month. You are reading your last free article for this month.
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Put it together play to your strengths and be authentic. From Report: Literal, Informational, Factual, Exhaustive… Research Findings If your goal is to communicate information from a written report, send the full document to the audience in advance, and limit the presentation to key takeaways.
Product Launch Instead of covering only specs and features, focus on the value your product brings to the world. Keynote Address Formal talks at big events are high-stakes, high-impact opportunities to take your listeners on a transformative journey.
Elsbach Coming up with creative ideas is easy; selling them to strangers is hard. A version of this article appeared in the June issue of Harvard Business Review. Read more on Persuasion or related topics Presentation skills and Personal strategy and style. For HBR Subscribers. Chris Anderson is the curator of TED.
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The opposite would be true for a party winning in districts with fewer voters on average. Yet, the efficiency gap I described would suggest the former party is at an advantage while the latter is at a disadvantage.
Clearly, then, this measure could be problematic, as McGhee admits. However, McGhee argues that other versions of the efficiency gap do correctly take into account both partisan gerrymandering and the advantage or disadvantage that comes with winning in districts with lower or higher turnouts respectively.
They then reflect the overall dis advantage of a party. Districts should then be drawn that keep this dis advantage to a minimum. An elaboration on this goes beyond the purpose of this contribution however. Adopting one of those versions of the efficiency gap as the basis for a judicial standard may result in the need to neutralize the advantage or disadvantage of winning in districts with fewer or more voters respectively. To that end, a State may feel the need to limit the variations in turnout across the districts.
Of course, turnout is not known in advance and can therefore not be a basis for redistricting. Yet, districts could be drawn that are equal with respect to a proxy like voter-eligible population. Traditionally, however, districts contain equal total populations. The Supreme Court expressly refused to answer this question in its Evenwel v. Abbott judgment two years ago. A standard centred around one of the comprehensive versions of the efficiency gap could also provide perverse incentives.
Imagine a situation in which one advantaged party tends to win in districts with smaller turnouts, while the other party is advantaged by unintentional partisan gerrymandering.
Instead of eliminating both advantages altogether, it may be easier for those drawing the redistricting map to try and make one balance the other out. Overall, neither party would then have an advantage over the other. This could however lead to more partisan gerrymandering or more variations in turnout across the districts, depending on the situation.
The former would defeat the purpose of the judicial standard.
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