10-04-2017, 08:29 PM
Here are some helpful tips from our experienced crew:
A microphone is a quizmaster's best friend. No need to lose that voice over trivial things!
Teams are not expecting you to be John Hawkesby or Eddie Maguire. Just be organised, friendly and inject a bit of humour and you'll be well-received. Quiz humour develops from the questions, make sure you mention silly answers - and bear in mind that it's usually those teams that expect you to give them a hard time!
Be fair on everyone, if it's an even playing field, you will make more friends than enemies. If team's perceive you are giving another an unfair advantage by helping them or dropping hints, they will feel somewhat aggrieved. Having said that, if a team is always struggling, and likely to be last, then I usually do what I can to encourage them..
If someone disputes an answer, remind them the questions are twice-verified, more often than not we're right and they're wrong! And rather than argue, if you are in any doubt, text 0274 850 375 and receive an instant reply with clarification to your question.
Try and convince a team to stay even if they're intending to only be there for a short time. It's simple to say "have a go, it's free", and often they will join in, and still be there at the end of the night.
Encourage teams to make a note of the question in the margin if they don't know the answer. This way, they can quickly refer back to it at a moment's notice, not bothering you with "What was no 4 again?" etc etc.
Cheating does happen, but very rarely. Teams cheat by using modern technology, ie laptops and cellphones, or swapping answers with each other. You can usually tell when it's happening - I usually put teams on notice to dob each other in!
Encourage teams not to call out answers, remind them before you start that it's a written quiz. Despite this, expect to hear someone say an answer far too loudly when you ask the first question!
A quick quiz is a good quiz. Aim to have everything done and dusted in 2.5 hours. If you allow 15 minutes per round you'll find this works out well.
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Presentation Tips are given below
Public Speaking Strategies - How to Do a Presentation?
No matter, what kind of presentation you are giving, here are some innovative out of the box tips for public speaking you can use.
They ve helped me like hell in my presentations and speeches.
Presentation Tips - 1
Visualize
Now if your presentation is tomorrow, clearly visualizing the WHOLE thing as if it is happening right now will boost your confidence and remove any fears you have related to the presentation.
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I was going to anchor in a blind-date fun competition in college. Large crowds of students from across the region would be gathering around me in a circle as I'd ask the participants inside the circle interesting questions. One day before the event, I locked myself in a room and imagined myself talking to the audience. I even held my fist under my mouth to imagine a mike! I imagined my audience cheering me! I imagined myself walking around in the middle of the circle of people with confidence, relaxed. I could feel the energy all around, I was actually getting excited as I started the competition in my mind! I asked the audience to give a big hand and they roared! I said Hi to my audience and spontaneously started speaking to them as if they were really present!
After this imagination bout, I felt VERY confident about the event. I felt like I could face any problem that occurred nothing could stop an awesome performance!
I don t really know why this visualizing helps, but try it once, because it does give a nitro-boost to your confidence.
Presentation Tips - 2
Audience Involvement
The whole presentation is for the audience isn t it? Many times we think of OURSELVES and OUR stress and OUR preparation while presenting but in the end we are presenting ONLY and ONLY for the audience, right?
If the audience is interested in what you re saying all is well.
In an economics presentation in college, I had prepared an example to tell the audience about inflation. I don t remember the exact example, so I ll tell you what I remember. Just as I was about to say something to the tune of "..suppose a person lends 20 rupees, to another person for one year, and yet another person for 3 years", I saw Karan and Vikanshu and Karthik 3 of my friends. I said, Now suppose Karan here and I pointed at Karan, lends Vikanshu there 20 Rs for an year and he lends Karthik there Rs 20 for 3 years Suddenly everybody was excited while the three boys themselves smiled. ! The whole discussion became lively! Maybe because the audience felt involved, instead of being made to listen to drone, drone, drone.. ..
Another thing I ve seen whenever I ve anchored a quiz, is that members of the audience jump and cheer for audience questions. Even in my own economics presentation, the part where people asked me questions and grilled me and we had a discussion was much more interesting and exciting for everybody then the part where only I was talking.
Say you re making a presentation explaining stocks and shares and the stock market.
Now after you re done with a small part like what stocks are, ask the audience if they understood it! Then when you ve completed a few more portions, again ask the audience if they had any doubts! This way the audience will get everything CRYSTAL clear.
So could you do these 2 things?
- Involve the audience by giving examples INVOLVING some actual AUDIENCE CHARACTERS.
- And ask the audience questions again and again!
Tell me, wouldn t you just LOVE it if the speaker kept asking you if you understood things, if he DID everything to make YOU understand stuff and if he even gave examples which involved your friends? You would be interested.
Do YOU have some presentation tips that we MUST know? Please tell us..
Presentation Tips - 3
Just Before the Presentation
If you are dull before the presentation, or thinking thoughts like why-did-he-do-this-to-me, or "I am going to have a terrible presentation..", really, how can your presentation rock?
Just before my blind date anchoring session, I turned on my favorite celebration songs play list and flowed to the tune of upbeat songs and even danced! I forgot about my presentation and celebrated for a while! This made my mood sky rocket and by the time I was actually facing my audience I was like Yo man, Yo!
The event was a success.
JUST before your presentation, do something that will LIFT YOUR MOOD. Listening to upbeat songs AND singing along and dancing is a fantastic mood-upbeater Going on stage when the event hasn t started and talking casually with the audience is another fantastic "mood-upbeater". Sing. Dance. Jump. Run. Exercise. Whatever, Just rock your mood BEFORE the presentation.
Presentation Tips - 4
Pictures and Videos
Imagine you are sitting in the audience and this guy is going on and on, showing you slides, and talking about complex concepts which only Einstein and him can understand.
Won t you be tempted to say What the heck?
If instead he shows you a video with sound effects! Won t you be hooked?
In my second year of college, I conducted a quiz contest and I put Loong questions that got displayed on the slide. And then loong answers that got displayed on the slide. The quiz failed miserably.
An year later, I conducted another quiz a quiz on Gandhi. I made sure EVERY slide had a picture. I showed questions which had a video of Gandhi talking to a fellow prisoner or Gandhi leading a march.
I asked the contestants to identify people in the picture, to find mistakes in the PICTURE. PICTURE VIDEO - PICTURE.
Of course other factors were there too, but the reaction from the audience was AMAZING. They were really interested.
How could you put a LOT of pictures and videos in your presentation? Could you use charts and tables and Pictures instead of bullet points? Or could you DRAW them a nice picture?
So these were the tips. For now, I can t remember any more tips for public speaking. So you will have to make do with these.
But the point is rock your presentation.