EPICS Delivering Effective Design Review Presentations Part 2/2

Summary

In this second part of EPICS' series on effective design review presentations, the focus is on engaging team dynamics and fluid communication in presentations. The session underscores the importance of attentiveness in group presentations, illustrated by exercises that emphasize continuity in dialogue. A fun twist is added with imaginative topics like "space ninjas," pushing participants to enhance their public speaking skills by locking into what the previous speaker has said. This training encourages spontaneity, body language awareness, and an understanding of seamless delivery in front of an audience.

Highlights

• Participants practiced engaging with teammates during presentations rather than focusing solely on their parts. 😊
• Creative exercises involved using the last word spoken by a teammate to start the next speaker's sentence. 🔄
• Fun topics like 'basketball teams,' 'space ninjas,' and 'bamboo shrimp' were used to keep the exercise lively. 🏀🌌🍤
• The importance of body language was highlighted, with tips on avoiding common nervous gestures. 👐
• Humor was encouraged, as seen in scenarios involving asparagus and dating advice with a twist. 😂

Key Takeaways

• Engage with your teammates during presentations to show camaraderie and support. 🤝
• Utilize creative, unexpected topics to practice seamless dialogue transitions. 🚀
• Public speaking is enhanced by using gestures and maintaining an athletic stance to avoid jitters. 💪
• Listening actively to fellow presenters helps maintain a cohesive presentation flow. 👂
• Adding humor and creativity to presentations makes them memorable and enjoyable. 😄

Overview

In this lively session of effective design review presentations, participants were encouraged to engage directly with their peers, ensuring a collaborative atmosphere. The workshop's objective was to enhance seamless communication between teammates, stressing on attentiveness and real-time feedback, as each member picked up from where the last left off.

Participants dived into imaginative and fun topics, including the concept of 'space ninjas' and the culinary oddity 'bamboo shrimp,' which were both hilarious and challenging. This exercise not only tested their improvisational skills but also helped in honing their public speaking finesse, ensuring each participant was actively listening and ready to adapt.

The session concluded with tips on body language to avoid displaying nervousness, emphasizing the importance of a confident stance and expressive gestures. Discussions also included using humor strategically to make presentations engaging, thus reflecting on the overall effectiveness of the training and participant enthusiasm.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 00:30: Introduction and Team Support Discussion The chapter discusses effective team dynamics during presentations, emphasizing the importance of team members actively supporting the speaker. It highlights a common issue where, in a large team, most members appear disengaged or preoccupied with their own thoughts instead of focusing on and supporting the team member who is speaking. This lack of engagement is noticeable and affects the presentation.
• 00:30 - 03:30: Engagement and Team Dynamics Exercise The chapter begins with familiar participants being welcomed back, indicating prior experience with the exercise. The challenge level is mentioned to be heightened for repeat participants. Ashle is designated to start a conversation on a specific topic that will be introduced shortly. The format involves sequential speaking, necessitating the next participant to continue the discussion immediately when their turn comes.
• 03:30 - 07:00: Space Ninjas Exercise In this chapter titled 'Space Ninjas Exercise', the focus is on listening skills within a group setting. The narrator highlights the importance of paying attention to what others are saying instead of focusing solely on what you're going to say next. A previous group's humorous attempt to discuss 'aquatic mammal mating' instead of listening is referenced. The chapter encourages participants to pay attention to the last word spoken by one person to begin their response, fostering active listening and engagement.
• 07:00 - 11:30: Bamboo Shrimp Exercise The chapter discusses Purdue University's basketball teams, emphasizing both the men's and women's teams. It highlights their good performance and the excitement surrounding their games, particularly at Mackey Arena. The narrator expresses eagerness to attend the women's games this year due to their exciting nature.
• 11:30 - 16:30: Asparagus and Public Speaking Tips The chapter titled 'Asparagus and Public Speaking Tips' touches upon the excitement surrounding basketball games and the speaker's personal involvement in intramural basketball as a referee. It mentions the different leagues such as women's, men's, fraternity, sorority, and coed leagues, emphasizing the joy and fun in both playing and watching these games. The speaker encourages participation and attendance at these events.

EPICS Delivering Effective Design Review Presentations Part 2/2 Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 do you recommend doing that because it kind of sounds like you recommended the opposite of not staring at your teammates for well sorry the the speaker shouldn't stare at their teammates right no your teammates should be there to support you okay you want to be engaged with the person who's speaking so one of the big problems we have especially with big teams is you'll have 10 people in front and nine of them look like they're well say eight of them look like they're thinking about something else one of them is thinking about what they have to say because they're next and no one is there really supporting their teammate right and you do notice that okay that does come across all right how about uh
• 00:30 - 01:00 team in the back corner you guys want to come on up now you've done this before as well we've got a couple of repeats in here don't I okay so we're going to increase the the challenge level a little bit since we have a returner up here okay so now the ashle is going to start speaking on a particular topic which we'll get to in just a minute and when her time is up the next person has to start with the
• 01:00 - 01:30 last word that Ashley said okay and so she's going to pay a lot more attention to what Ashley's saying than the last group when they were thinking about what they're going to talk about right so you guys in the last group were like okay as soon as she's done I'm going to talk about aquatic mammal mating right that's going to be funny and it was funny but that's all you were thinking about right you weren't thinking about what the other person was saying so about sea seaw water that's very good so the last word she says when I say next is going to be the first word that she says okay
• 01:30 - 02:00 all right and the topic will be basketball team basketball teams go ahead how about Purdue basketball team make it more specific go ahead um so Purdue has a basketball team we have a men and a women's team they're pretty good from what I've heard um they usually play in Mackie I'm really excited to go to the girls games this year because those are pretty exciting I especially enjoy going
• 02:00 - 02:30 to the IU versus PR game because everybody is very excited at those games excited excited well I am personally excited about basketball because I'm a basketball intramural referee and so the intramural basketball games you have the different leagues you've got women's men's frat sari coed it's a lot of fun to play it's a lot of fun to watch so if you have a chance you should go out and join an inal
• 02:30 - 03:00 basketball team uh you can play Club basketball as well club club um well I'm sure there's some clubs on campus related to basketball like Mo said there's a lot of intermural teams that you could join if you're interested in basketball um I know myself I'm more of a spectator I tried basketball out M murals they actually sat me on the bench for most of the games so I'm not the best basketball player um so I'm really excited when the basketball season actually starts um I did go to the football game this past weekend but
• 03:00 - 03:30 that's probably going to be the only football game that I go to this season um just cuz the basketball team is generally better next better um in order to get really good at uh basketball and to be better at the sport there's the corc where you can practice and there a lot of basketball courts on the third floor I believe and you can also go out to Mackie Arena where that's where most of the basketball games are held and um as in addition most of the basketball Gam games are held on Saturday I believe
• 03:30 - 04:00 and the tickets can be bought through bought online or with cheaper than going there and buying the tickets all right thank you very much very good job okay did everybody notice how they tended to lock into what the next per last person had said a little bit more clearly than the previous group and it really helps having to think about what the next person is going to say and since you have such a good suggestion of basketball teams why don't you guys go ahead and come
• 04:00 - 04:30 up a cive theme okay so again we're going to pick up the the next speaker is going to pick up the last word that the previous speaker said and the topic will be space ninjas space ninjas and
• 04:30 - 05:00 go space ninjas actually can we ship the the order I don't know what I no one knows what that is okay so long ago in a far of Galaxy the Empire had hired assassination assassinate assassins to kill off Darth Vader and those were those were named
• 05:00 - 05:30 space ninjas cuz they were ninjas in space and they had the special power to teleport through planets and um go through intergalactical space travel all right next intergalactical that is so hard to say uh especially as a foreigner and uh I will talk more about the space
• 05:30 - 06:00 NES is it kind of something in the in the space uh I don't know much detail about it so I would say if you don't know about it you can try to Google that you always find good answer on Google good next Google so once you search Google space ninjas of course you'll find out where their hidden monk area is where they do all their training up in the galaxy of
• 06:00 - 06:30 exom 3 in the uh Himalaya regions yes they have a Himalayas there like we do on Earth it's very special and here they do heavy intense training such as sneak walking teleportation and uh they sometimes Google themselves because they get bored and uh especially sneaky on assassinations they learn where critical points are where you want to reach next to reach um space ninjas have a really like High Reach because um they can jump from
• 06:30 - 07:00 the earth and reach like the stars light years away in one jump and uh and uh they are really good at assassinating um many different Empires and kingdoms and um kill lots of people without them knowing without them knowing that they're being killed so it's kind of sad being killed by them because you have no idea why you got killed all right very good very good
• 07:00 - 07:30 I had no idea that would take such a violent turn okay very good uh see about uh about you guys back here you hop on up okay now the next the next little Wrinkle in this is going to be no more cheating so the last word isn't a word you have to use in the next sentence somewhere but it needs to be the next word now the only thing you can do is you can change sort of the usage
• 07:30 - 08:00 of the word so instead of reach you could say reaching okay but no saying space ninjas have lots of reach okay got to be the very next word okay and your topic will be bamboo shrimp does that exist bamboo shrimp okay whenever you're ready bamboo shrimp you have to pretend to be an expert so bamboo shrimp is the next superfood when it comes to health
• 08:00 - 08:30 because I mean bamboo and shrimp are two things that are good for you right so um how you make bamboo shrimp is you obviously you catch your shrimp and you cook them and then you roll it in the bamboo and then you eat it kind of like sushi so that's healthy because you know it's all natural organic I guess you could call it um glutenfree also so bamboo shrip is something that everyone should consider for sure
• 08:30 - 09:00 um a lot of animals eat bamboo shrimp too maybe not in that form but next form form as in rolls of bamboo within the shrimp because sushi that is made from bamboo and shrimp is different because different is good and it's a new product that is becoming available on the market and so they have to find ways to sell it to interested people and being different is typically attractive to the human race race and so therefore
• 09:00 - 09:30 the bamboo is rolled inside of the shrimp rather than vice versa and so if you want to pick up your role of bamboo Sushi head to your local supermarket where you can talk with a sales clerk about purchasing rolls of bamboo Sushi where the bamboo is rolled inside of the sushi next sushi
• 09:30 - 10:00 sushi sushi size varies so each roll is different size you can get from a large roll to a small roll and um you know there's jumbo shrim so I guess you just put that in the Su in the bamboo roll it up just like any other Sushi Wood and um the experts they'll tell you about it when they're trying to sell it they'll probably try to sell you the highest bigger end product you can obviously buy the smaller ones probably more smaller ones would be better than the price of the big one just a insight there
• 10:00 - 10:30 um yeah um pandas love to eat it too next pandas pandas please pandas is actually where we got the idea for bamboo SSH bamboo shrimp um by looking at different animal populations we were trying to figure out what is going to be the healthiest new trend and what animal species out there has a better and bigger population than than the panda I mean come on you're
• 10:30 - 11:00 practically everywhere I mean I bumped into one the other day in the street um so we know because of this explosion in the panda population that bamboo has the secret to a long life and a healthy population um and we we learned that Seafood actually also goes along with that because bears like fish and stuff like that and also Bamboo's really hard to eat and especially get down to esophagus without getting a splinter too so we found that wrapping it in the
• 11:00 - 11:30 shrimp was the best solution stop all right very good very good okay uh so we have time for one more team any volunteers or shall I pick a victim anybody want to volunteer so one thing I would say about uh last group may have taken notice of really good job with with body language okay so they were pretty well um standing together arms at
• 11:30 - 12:00 the sides but when they talked they were very animated right I just love bamboo Sushi you guys have got a roll of bamboo Sushi you can come you know really good being being uh demonstrative with your hands that helps a lot during public speaking if you're not only doing this but when you have a point you get your hands up and make some points okay all right so who hasn't gone yet are you guys hiding you guys look anxious so how about you guys come up be our last team no let's do
• 12:00 - 12:30 it and since they were hiding one of the teams that's had to go already will come up with a really good topic for them which will be Quantum Quantum quantum mechanics Quantum what asparagus Quantum asparagus asparagus just asparagus Quantum asparagus or just Quantum asparagus okay's we're going to a vote uh all in favor of
• 12:30 - 13:00 quantum mechanics all in favor of asparagus okay it's asparagus I I couldn't tell if you were talking about Quantum asparagus because I don't know exactly what that means all right go ahead asparagus it's been in the headlines lately the debate over whether steamed or raw is better for you to consume but we all know the true answer is that Steam is the better way to consume asparagus when you consume
• 13:00 - 13:30 steam asparagus it's easier to go down so it'll taste better which means you'll have a better time eating which means later you're more likely to eat more asparagus and if you don't eat asparagus well I mean we all know what happens when you don't even eat enough asparagus I mean look at the pandas next pandas pandas as we spoke about earlier pandas are great population look on to base off of food products additional to what Nick was saying earlier asparagus steamed has
• 13:30 - 14:00 been decided as the best way to cook it but what do you do with it additionally garlic butter bacon there's so many different choices out there our team with our extensive reearch and all of our doctorate doctorate degrees since we're all professionals have decided garlic and butter and bacon is the best way to steam your asparagus for best results do what we are telling you cuz we are professionals next professionals yeah professionals know a lot about
• 14:00 - 14:30 asparagus and as we are professionals we are telling you that having steamed asparagus is really good for you even though I hate asparagus um but yeah no it's really good for you and if you don't eat your vegetables you'll get horned ears it's fine um but yeah no asparagus is really good for you you should all eat it even though I will never eat it um and it's very nutritious next
• 14:30 - 15:00 nutritious nutritious vegetables are good for you especially in the dating scene because it really gets your body up to a par while working out so you're able to go out there more confident and I guess present yourself in front of any lady or if you're a woman male so that's a part of our research is seeing how asparagus and da the dating scene correlates and we believe that eating it with bacon actually is beneficial
• 15:00 - 15:30 because even though it may bring out little pimples it gets you a lot more energetic gets you happy because you just ate bacon right and you want to want to share your experience with your loved one and maybe introduce them to bacon as sparas oh okay great job very good very good well I love the persuasive tone that decided to take from the beginning there it went from tell me about asparagus like you all have to eat asparagus with
• 15:30 - 16:00 garlic butter and bacon or you'll never get a date for the rest of your life very nicely done okay so you guys did a fantastic job so some of the the things that I saw uh some overall tips I think I got that off so it's not clinging around um again hands to the side one really common trait is the the one leg lean okay so a lot of people like to put a leg out to one side and put all your weight on one side and then kind of do like a balancing act on it okay uh maybe it's combined with the
• 16:00 - 16:30 hands behind or hands in the pocket like have really weird hands I don't want you to see or I'm really like I'm wondering how far I can lean over before I fall so two feet two feet uh if any of you have played Athletics uh you know the kind of standard like you know athletic stance about shoulder width um and then put your arms to your side okay so avoid doing lots of Leaning I know it's a way to kind of make yourself feel like you're moving around and get those Jitters out but what do we talk about doing get those out beforehand right so
• 16:30 - 17:00 you don't bring the Jitters in with you so avoid the avoid the lean avoid the foot turnout especially ladies a lot of ladies like to stand with the foot turned out and then you kind of look like you're telling us that we're in trouble okay so avoid that uh I think everybody's seen their mom do something like that at one point in time so you don't want to get into that any questions okay you guys generally did an awesome job so let's give each other one last real good Round of Applause very nicely done as usual name Purdue ID one is true
• 17:00 - 17:30 or a however it goes to the first bubble please drop them off in an orderly Fashion on your way out by either