国際会議や研究発表では
- 自分のプレゼンテーションは、予め用意したシナリオを読むことなく、オーディエンスに話しかけるようにしましょう。
- そのため、パワポを作り込む時間と同様に、話す練習の時間確保が必要です。
質問の対策ですが、ディスカッションの「心構え」として、
- 建設的議論につながる。
- より多くのオーディエンスが知りたい。
- そのコミュニティのためになる。
For international conferences and research presentations:
- Make sure your presentation speaks to the audience without reading the scenario.
- Then, you need to set aside time to practice speaking as well as time to create a PowerPoint presentation.
Be prepared for discussions,
- Lead to constructive discussion.
- More audience members want to know.
- The community (session) will benefit.
Then, before your presentation,
- Have a list of possible questions and prepared answers. Make slides and make them invisible. This is basic. Also, try the following.
- Make sure you have a lot of possible answers. In the lab's seminar and 1-on-1 meeting, the questions are very narrowly focused, but you will be asked a wide range of questions.
- From the first day of the conference, listen to other people's presentations and try to think of questions to ask (of course, you can ask questions). On the other hand, you try to notice what
kind of questions other questioners will ask, and if they are unexpected to you, you try to realize, "Oh, they might ask these kinds of questions," and think about how they will ask them when you
present your talk.
- The questioner asks a question first and then expresses his/her opinion about the question. Or, the questioner first expresses his/her opinion and then asks questions. Opinions are often long
in an international conference. In some cases it is not necessary to understand all the opinions.
- The other pattern is that the questioner thinks this way, but after listening to the presenter's presentation, the questioner may be asked, "What do you think about this?" This is a good
habit to develop on a daily basis as you listen to others and reflect on their ideas and your own.