Leadership
Give Powerful Conference Presentations
Give a conference talk that sounds like you and leaves colleagues with something they'll use the next day.
- 51 minutes
- 12 modules
- 1 CPD hour
- Certificate
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What you'll learn
- Find out what you need to know about the audience, venue and brief
- Plan for technical failures, awkward questions and running out of time
- Open and close a talk so the key points stick
- Cut your content down to a few points people will act on
- Connect with the room by presenting as yourself
About this course
You teach classes all day, yet the thought of presenting to a room of adults at a conference or training day can tie you in knots. Most of the fear is about what might go wrong.
Plan with the questions an experienced keynote speaker asks before every talk. What do you need to know about the audience and the room? What will you do if the projector dies, or someone asks a question you can't answer? How much can you really cover? Less than you think. If people leave with three things they'll do differently, that's a good hour. You'll plan an opening that isn't a sound check or your life story, and an ending people remember.
And you'll present as yourself. If you're funny with your classes, you can be funny with adults too.
- For early career teachers, governors and 5 other roles. All phases.
12 modules
Open in order
- 1 min
Introduction
- 5 min
How can ‘you do you’?
- 6 min
What do you need to know?
- 6 min
What could possibly go wrong?
- 6 min
I’ve arrived… now what?
- 3 min
How should you kick off?
- 4 min
How much can you cover?
- 8 min
Is this a good use of their time?
- 5 min
How can you connect?
- 6 min
Will they use it?
- 5 min
What if you’re running out of ti…?
- 3 min
Wrap up