{"id":779,"date":"2016-11-08T07:10:18","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T15:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3.209.169.194\/blogs\/erin\/?p=779"},"modified":"2017-04-13T09:19:32","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T16:19:32","slug":"t-sql-tuesday-84-growing-new-speakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/erin\/t-sql-tuesday-84-growing-new-speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"T-SQL Tuesday #84: Growing New Speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/erin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/tsql2sday150x150.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-780\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/erin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/tsql2sday150x150.jpg\" alt=\"T-SQL Tuesday\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/erin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/tsql2sday150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/erin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/tsql2sday150x150-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>This week I\u2019m in Chicago for our last SQLskills Immersion Event of the year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/sql-server-training\/ie0\/\">IE0<\/a>, which is one of my favorite classes to teach.\u00a0 Jon is on right now talking about security, and I\u2019m up next to talk about backups.\u00a0 There\u2019s a bit of irony here in that today\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/sqlbek.wordpress.com\/2016\/10\/25\/t-sql-tuesday-84-growing-new-speakers\/\">T-SQL Tuesday<\/a> is hosted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/sqlbek\">Andy Yun<\/a>, whom I was fortunate enough to see last night at our Happy Hour.\u00a0 I got to catch up with Andy and hear about his first Summit presentation, and he was talking about his path to becoming a presenter (I\u2019ll let him share that story).<\/p>\n<p>So when I read about today\u2019s TSQL Tuesday, I realized I should chime in \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve written about presenting before:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/erinstellato.com\/2012\/09\/favorite-suggestions-for-new-speakers\/\">My Favorite Suggestions for New Speakers<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Long post with a lot of my recommendations about speaking<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/erin\/a-poll-recommendations-for-new-speakers\/\">A Poll: Recommendations for New Speakers<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Linked to the first post, but I asked other speakers to give suggestions and those are in the comments<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/erin\/t-sql-tuesday-41-presenting-and-loving-it\/\">T-SQL Tuesday #41: Presenting and Loving It<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Oh the irony here \u2013 another T-SQL Tuesday post, and that one was hosted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/sqlbob\">Bob Pusateri<\/a>, who I also got to see last night!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/erin\/helping-first-time-presenters\/\">Helping First Time Presenters<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>A thank you to those who helped in the beginning when I was presenting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There\u2019s <em>a lot<\/em> of information in those posts.\u00a0 I re-read all of them, and everything still rings true.\u00a0 What can I add that\u2019s new?\u00a0 A note about comfort.<\/p>\n<p>For some of my presentations, I have gotten to the point where I am incredibly comfortable with the material.\u00a0 This comes with having presented the content many, many times, and a lot of real-world experience.\u00a0 But I don\u2019t ever let the material, or my delivery of it, get stale.\u00a0 I am constantly tweaking my demos and often my slides.\u00a0 Rarely do I re-write something entirely, but I will change the order of slides because I think of a better way to present a concept.\u00a0 I will add something to a demo based on a question, or because I think it will help solidify what I\u2019m trying to teach.\u00a0 In short: I don\u2019t stop evolving a presentation.\u00a0 The core content may be the same, but I can always do better.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t settle, don\u2019t get too comfortable.\u00a0 It\u2019s not about perfection, it\u2019s about improving.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I\u2019m in Chicago for our last SQLskills Immersion Event of the year, IE0, which is one of my favorite classes to teach.\u00a0 Jon is on right now talking about security, and I\u2019m up next to talk about backups.\u00a0 There\u2019s a bit of irony here in that today\u2019s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Andy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.9.1 - 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