What are you? A typical traditional or non-traditional speaker?
| Traditional: | Non-traditional: |
| Stage | |
| Be the main event | Share the main event |
| Hide behind podium | Be free to roam |
| Use stage as it is | Use stage as setting |
| Style | |
| Serious business tone | Humor and enthusiasm |
| Confined expressiveness | Large expressiveness |
| Monotone | Vocal and pace variety |
| Visuals | |
| Read slides | Minimize slides |
| Static images | Moving images |
| Talk about your product | Show them your product |
| Interaction | |
| Minimize disruptions | Plan disruptions |
| Resist live feedback | Embrace real-time feedback |
| Request silence | Encourage exchanges |
| Content | |
| Familiarity with features | Wonderment and awe at features |
| Flawless knowledge | Self-deprecating humanness |
| Long-winded rambles | Memorable, headline sized sound bites |
| Involvement | |
| One-way delivery | Polling, shout-outs, game playing, writing, drawing, sharing, singing, and question asking. |
Tip: Attempt to vary, mixing traditional with non-traditional manner of presenting to create contrast . Thereby, making it interesting for the public to watch. In other words: the non-traditional way is not always better than the traditional, it is about mixing them up and creating contrast or variation.
Source:Â Resonate by Nancy Duarte (p. 139)