TalkTips-Day 02: Choose Your Topic
“I want to do a talk, but I have no idea what to talk about” might be one of the things I hear the most from people looking to break into public speaking.
Topics for me come from my own experiences and how I’ve answered my own questions in learning/succeeding/fumbling/failing.
For example:
Questions/Situations that arise in my day-to-day.
One of my upcoming talks is called, “Kill Your Baby, Sell Your S#!%” — This talk shares some crucial tactics specifically for designers and developers on how to let go of their work enough to completely change it, but also the art of selling their work and/or ideas to their clients or internal teams. This comes from something I find myself helping many of my design and developer team clients work through a great deal of the time, and spans all the way back to what I used to teach my university students of Graphic Design and Interface Design.
Real experiences I’m having, or have worked through. Sometimes these are product design lessons learned like “Designing for Emotional Engagement”. Sometimes these are life things like “Through Burnout and Back Again.” Some stories are hard ones to share, but they are what I know.
How do YOU come up with talk topics?
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Jaimee Newberry is a professional experimenter, speaker and writer who lives, learns and fumbles out loud. She’s the founder of tinychallenges.com and co-host of the tinychallenges podcast. She’s also the independent mother of two girls and two cats, and girlfriend of a beautiful, shy man who likes to remain mostly anonymous. More at jaimeejaimee.com
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