Connecting With Your Audience: Delivering Your Best – with Dr. John Bandler
Feb 18, 2021
12:00PM to 2:00PM
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Date(s) - 18/02/2021
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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Thursday, February 18, 2021, noon – 2:00 pm
Registration https://tinyurl.com/connectwithyouraudience
Your ability to inspire and engage broad audiences beyond your usual “captive” technical and academic
audiences is vital but challenging. To kindle curiosity and to fire up your non-specialist online “virtual”
or video viewers with your research is harder still. Transferrable to virtually any professional career
path, however, these communication skills become lifetime assets.
We address the art of presenting complex research to general audiences, suggesting do’s and don’ts,
with a focus on brief, one-minute, and three-minute presentations: pre-recorded, virtual or in person.
The disorienting “virtual” medium we face daily is fraught with technical and physical limitations,
surprises, and wrong assumptions, easily leading you astray, e.g., from a professional posture; you are
subject to a physical disconnect from your audience and slides. Via this medium or delivering your
video to any screen, you beg comparison with professionally produced content.
We discuss storytelling, first impressions, citation, subtext, authenticity, articulation, slide design, script
design, staging, stage presence, respecting your audience, and avoiding various traps and pitfalls.
Through diverse case studies, including a Q&A with 3MT® winners and finalists online from Canada,
the US, and the UK, we aim to give you the tools and strategies to deliver your best.
Speakers:
John Bandler, OC, McMaster professor emeritus, is an award-winning engineer, entrepreneur, innovator, researcher, artist, speaker,
and author of fiction, including stage plays. See YouTube. He has published 500+ papers; sold his start-up to Hewlett-Packard;
pioneered space mapping; is an Officer of the Order of Canada; and is the winner of the Professional Engineers Ontario 2018 Gold
Medal. He has coached 100’s of individuals for presentations, and initiated and co-organized 3MT®
competitions, including the continuing 3MT® at a major IEEE conference.
Rachelle Ho is a McMaster University PhD candidate in the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience &
Behaviour studying the impact of concussion on brain function using magnetic resonance imaging. She has
participated in the McMaster 3MT® competition, and has served as a judge on 3MT® competitions in the Faculty
of Engineering and, online, in the 2020 IEEE International Microwave Symposium virtual 3MT®.
Michelle Ogrodnik is a PhD candidate in the Department of Kinesiology and a Wilson Leadership Scholar. She
works as a Lead Educational Development Fellow at the MacPherson Institute. From elementary school students
to the Governor General, she has experience presenting to diverse audiences. Michelle won the Participant’s
Choice Award in the 2017 McMaster 3MT® competition, was a winner in the 2017 1-Minute Research Blitz
Competition at McMaster, and a national winner in the 2018 SSHRC Storytellers Competition.
Daniel Tajik is a PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering developing microwave
image processing algorithms for use in medical diagnostics. In 2017, he won both the First Place and Audience
Choice Awards in the first ever 3MT® competition at the IEEE International Microwave Symposium. In 2018,
Daniel won first place for the same presentation in the first ever Electrical and Computer Engineering graduate