From the course: Master Confident Presentations
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- So we've talked about your initial impact statement if you like starting with a question or something mysterious. So now we get onto the main introduction of your talk. What are the things that should be in your introduction? Well, firstly you have to say who you are. And I think the main thing with this, is to give yourself credibility, but also be modest. This quite difficult trick. So you don't want to say, I'm an expert. I know everything, because then they're just going to think, well, we don't like him or her, and they're going to start to look for any faults they can find in your talk, so you don't want that. You want to just quietly say, I've been doing this years. I've made every mistake you can make, so I'm going to help you to avoid those same mistakes. Something like that. And something I do is I don't always start with who I am. I usually start with a bit about the talk, and what's in it for them. And then I say, by the way, I'm Chris, I've been doing this for a while…
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