Presenting your work

Presenting your work to others

According to Dr. Murat and my own experience, presenting our work is not an easy job because it requires a lot of practice and a GOOD understanding of topic of our presentation. We often get trapped in the thought of impressing the audience, so we lose the focus on ourselves and our own interest in the topic, which are the factors that actually make impression we want to deliver to others.

When we are presenting, we keep wondering if we are giving an excellent presentation,  if our gestures are appropriate, or if our tone is proper. Therefore, we are too focused on the audience's opinions that we are actually losing the impression of our own presentation. It is true that the impression is automatically delivered and felt by the audience when we talk from our heart and being impressed by the topic ourselves while talking about it. If we are amazed by the topic and have good understanding about the topic, we are giving an authentic, emotional, and professional presentation. 

One more thing is that, it does not hurt to understand the topic we are going to present from different perspectives instead of spending time perfecting the speaking that explains the topic in only one way. Our audience may come from a diverse backgrounds, so being able to explain one concept/topic in different ways demonstrates that we master the topic and we are giving a professional presentation on the topic, and we are able to catch up with our presentation wherever we are left off if there is an interruption during the speak. While we are thinking of different ways to explain the topic, we may explore new things about our topic, because we are looking at it from different levels and perspectives as a diverse group of our audience.