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We can read quicker than you can speak. If you’ve put all the information you plan to deliver on the slide, we don’t need you. Just send us the slides and we can read them at our leisure.<ref>Or save them for reading “later”, of course.</ref> Remember the point of the exercise, from your perspective: to give us the impression ''we need you''. | We can read quicker than you can speak. If you’ve put all the information you plan to deliver on the slide, we don’t need you. Just send us the slides and we can read them at our leisure.<ref>Or save them for reading “later”, of course.</ref> Remember the point of the exercise, from your perspective: to give us the impression ''we need you''. | ||
Blessed as most in-house lawyers are with basic literacy levels, generally we don’t need someone to read out loud to us, and if we did we would choose Martin Jarvis or David Horovitch, not | Blessed as most in-house lawyers are with basic literacy levels, generally we don’t need someone to read out loud to us, and if we did we would choose Martin Jarvis or David Horovitch, not a mumbling LLB (hons) from Bristol. | ||
===Don’t clutter your slides=== | ===Don’t clutter your slides=== | ||
Limit yourself to a sentence per slide. One ''short'' sentence. Try it. This will help you to speak naturally to your audience, not to your notes. | Limit yourself to a sentence per slide. One ''short'' sentence. Try it. This will help you to speak naturally to your audience, not to your notes. | ||
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The best exponent of excellent, uncluttered slides is [[Lawrence Lessig]]. Watch him in action [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVk77VQuPAY here]. | The best exponent of excellent, uncluttered slides is [[Lawrence Lessig]]. Watch him in action [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVk77VQuPAY here]. | ||
===Vary your tone=== | ===Vary your tone=== | ||
''You are not a Gregorian monk. Nor is anyone your audience''. Speak with some animation. Bring that personality. Moderate your range. Pause. Punctuate. Be dramatic. Be hyperbolic. ''This is a performance, not a root canal''. | ''You are not a Gregorian monk. Nor is anyone in your audience''. Speak with some animation. Bring that personality. Moderate your range. Pause. Punctuate. Be dramatic. Be hyperbolic. ''This is a performance, not a root canal''. | ||
===Speak in idiomatic English=== | ===Speak in idiomatic English=== | ||
Of ''course'' it is hard, since legal discourse has been beaten into you, but ''try not to speak like a lawyer''. Don’t speak the way you draft. (Come to think of it, don’t ''draft'' the way you draft). Say less, perform more. Build rapport. | Of ''course'' it is hard, since legal discourse has been beaten into you, but ''try not to speak like a lawyer''. Don’t speak the way you draft. (Come to think of it, don’t ''draft'' the way you draft). Say less, perform more. Build rapport. | ||