Get some help! Use support material and be more relaxed. It helps your memory. Support material, cue cards, flashcards when you have a presentation it really helps you in many ways. What you want to talk about and how you will do it.
The episode (7 minutes) was recorded at noon Central European Time, on January 13, 2023, with Ringr app.. Martin did the editing and post-production with the podcast maker, Alitu. The transcript is generated by Alitu.
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Martin:
Welcome to Presentation Skills Q and A. I am Martin Lindeschool.
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Hi, Karina.
Carina:
Hi, Martin.
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How are you today?
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I'm fine.
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And yourself?
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I'm fine.
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I have a song in my head, and I got it as an
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inspiration for this episode.
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And it's Help by Beatles.
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Help. Sometimes you need help like tools or material for helping when you're
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doing a presentation or prep something to hold in your hands or to remember things.
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So right now I'm having here on my desk so called word cards from a stationary company
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called Commodore.
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I ordered some, you could say index cards.
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And then I told about our podcast and Robin, he sent these cue cards or flash cards or word
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cards from a Japanese stationary company, like small cards that you could hold in your hand,
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like reminder or what should I say next? Or when you're studying or whatnot.
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And I know you have lots of pieces of advice here and tips, and you have used it in your
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work.
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Today's topic.
Carina:
Yeah. Support material.
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It really helps you in many ways.
Carina:
And now you and I were talking about cards, not fluttering paper, should I say?
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These stiff cards, which you can have control over.
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You can hold them in your hand and you can feel them in your hand.
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And is it like cards that you have, like on the television, television show?
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Often they are bigger, but you know, news reporters or TV anchors, you see them holding
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cards, what will they say next? And then they flip the cards.
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Yeah. And they have to have these big cards because they also have a prompter in
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front yeah.
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Teleprompter a camera who is filming the cards
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above them.
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So they have the same thing in a prompter in
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front of them.
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But these cards you are talking about,
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schools, for example, have used these flashcards for many years in education.
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For study language, for example, you have the word on one side and the meaning of the world
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on the other side.
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Okay.
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And you can also study history.
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You have something in history and then you
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have the year on the yeah.
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Balancer. Yeah. Like math and so on, like 77 to six.
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You could set a booster gravel.
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70, 76.
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Yes.
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When was that and what happened then?
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Yeah, but I think when you use these cue cards or flashcards, it's, it helps you to
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remember what you are going to say.
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But you can also have letters on them that
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helps you how you move on the stage.
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Okay. Left, right?
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Yes. Left, right.
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You can connect them both, what you are
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talking about and your body language and make that very easy.
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So in the right corner, you can write L for left, for example, or R for right or M for
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middle.
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Then the people you are talking to, they don't
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know anything, but you are calm in the situation when you're moving back and forth
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over the stage and it looks very natural.
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Yes, but you also have experience.
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You use these cards in which situations?
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Martin right, this one now I get lots of ideas how I could use them.
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And they are in mini format, so it's easy to hold in the hand and bring with you.
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So I will use it like presentations.
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But also it could be for podcasting, it could
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be like when you have some notes or bullet points and also doodling or writing like
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inspiration.
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Because these cards you could take out and put
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in certain order.
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You could do all kinds of things.
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So I got lots of ideas now, but otherwise I have used index cards holding in my hand for
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the slides, for a presentation that next slide.
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And then I have short bullet points and some note to self to remember things.
Carina:
Do you have any recommendation which type of cards you were talking about,
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Commodore.
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For a little bit, yeah, I think these are called word cards, the small ones on
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almost like a key chain, but it's like rubber or something like that.
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So I recommend that and then the traditional index cards that you could get at the
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stationary store.
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Also, I remember when I prepared for my
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presentation on podcasting and I went to you and got help with that and training, and then
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you gave a tip.
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You could also have your card with your logo
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type or your branding or something like that and how you could create your own cards.
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Fan that looks really professional but I think like this we are giving these links in
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the show notes where our listeners can look up these things and get these I really say
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fantastic cards.
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That helps you in many ways.
Martin:
Yeah, we will do that.
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So thanks again, Robin, at Commodore for
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sending me with my order.
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And again, the call to action is download a
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new podcast app.
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So you could send like a digital note to us
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with a feedback loop.
Carina:
Yes. And our audience listeners can always find us in social media and get in
