Have you been sitting in boring presentations that made you start reading your emails?
Have you been listening to someone, wondering if this is for me?
Have you been getting away from a presentation and thinking 2 hours later: “What was this about?”
You surely don’t want your audience to feel this way when you’re presenting yourself. You can’t be an effective statistician without good presentation skills from my perspective. You will always need to present results, defend designs, or explain data.
Today’s episode will give you insights into 7 mistakes in presentations. Honestly, I see at least one of them in nearly every presentation and I struggle with them as well – just listen to this episode and you’ll have a live example.
The 7 mistakes Julia and I talk about are:
- Messing up the logistics (technical or room set-up)
- Lack of clarity on the desired outcome
- Just focusing on the logical arguments
- Being boring
- Ignoring the audience
- Having a false start
- Ending lamely
Listen to this episode and learn how to avoid them. Also, Julia has a nice gift at the end, thus staying to the end of the episode to learn about it.
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Julia Carter (MRPharmS, MCIPD)
Director, Zestfor Ltd.
Julia has over 24 years of experience in the blue-chip corporate world with more than 15 years in learning and development roles. She has designed and delivered management and employee development programs for all levels of employees including Senior Managers and Directors throughout the UK and Europe, and across the globe. Julia is a hands-on, highly motivating training professional and coach who passionately believes every individual can be the person they want to be when they are given the right tools, support, and direction to get there.
Qualifications & Accreditations: Certified Online Learning Facilitator, Insights® Licensed Practitioner, Certified Career Coach, CIPD qualified in CTP, Strengthscope® Practitioner, EQ-i 2.0 /EQ 360 Certification, Belbin, MBTI, MRPharmS – Qualified Pharmacist, and BPharm(Hons) – Bachelor of Pharmacy, King’s College, London.
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I want to help the community of statisticians, data scientists, programmers and other quantitative scientists to be more influential, innovative, and effective. I believe that as a community we can help our research, our regulatory and payer systems, and ultimately physicians and patients take better decisions based on better evidence.
I work to achieve a future in which everyone can access the right evidence in the right format at the right time to make sound decisions.
When my kids are sick, I want to have good evidence to discuss with the physician about the different therapy choices.
When my mother is sick, I want her to understand the evidence and being able to understand it.
When I get sick, I want to find evidence that I can trust and that helps me to have meaningful discussions with my healthcare professionals.
I want to live in a world, where the media reports correctly about medical evidence and in which society distinguishes between fake evidence and real evidence.
Let’s work together to achieve this.
