challenge-preparing-to-give-someone-elses-talk.md

The challenge of preparing to give someone else's talk

20-30min talk or Lightning Talk, possibly Ignite

Alternate title: Adventures in preparing to give someone else's talk

Abstract

While it’s not likely to happen very often, there may come a time in your life that you are tasked with giving a talk that someone else prepared. We’ll discuss how you do your own preparation to communicate the intended message, and doing so in your own voice, and making it your own.

Alternate Abstract, Longer Description

While it’s not likely to happen very often, there may come a time in your professional life that you are tasked with giving a talk that someone else prepared. And by prepared, I mean they’ve been the driving force at the company for a new initiative with the background to match, and are responsible for crafting the messaging, diagrams, and partnerships for said initiative. No big deal, right?

This happened to me, and I will share the experience, and give practical steps to prepare to communicate the talk, using your own voice, and making it your talk.

Notes

This is loosely based on this blog post