Dear speaker: If I see you mention that you “write a talk”, my assumption is you will read it instead of presenting, which means you’ll bore your audience to death.
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I’ve recently seen more and more conference speakers read from a prepared script. If you ask for my advice as to when this is appropriate, my answer is “never”, with a possible exception for your gramdmother’s 80th birthday

Oct 31, 2018 · 9:30 PM UTC

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Even more annoyingly, I’ve seen speakers read prepared talks from a script where I’m 100% certain they would have been able to just “wing it” to much better results
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The final thing that drives me completely crazy: A disproportionate number of speakers “reading” their talks are women, for completely wrong reasons, likely because they lack the male cowboy attitude, which means their talks will be worse even though they might have been awesome
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And if I were to add a comment like this to a specific talk, it would (rightly) be considered condescending mansplaining. So my request to experienced women speakers is: Tell other women they’re completely capable to deliver great talks, no need to “read” them.
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Of course it’s perfectly possible to deliver a fantastic scripted talk, if you’re able and willing to put in the effort. Most likely that’s not the case, so don’t. waitbutwhy.com/2016/03/doing…
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Replying to @stilkov
Das fällt vermutlich ebenfalls in die Kategorie "muss man können". Habe ich nur 1x erlebt: Eine Vorlesung an der Uni, im wahrsten Sinn des Wortes. War aber wider Erwarten tatsächlich spannend. Aber allgemein rangiert das auf dem Level "Folien vorlesen" 😴