Presentation preparation Why? What? Who? • Why are you presenting? • What is the presentation about? • Who are you presenting to? 3
Presentation design How to design a great presentation...
To design a good presentation you must start with a clear plan and use clear messages. 4
Presentation Topics
The problem is that you have too much choice. So how do you choose the right presentation topic?
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Presentation Ideas
Looking for some ideas?
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Design inspiration from websites and blogs
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How to structure a presentation
Starting a presentation
The middle of a presentation
The end of the presentation
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Essential Presentation Skills The Three Presentation Essentials. Use visual aids where you can. Rehearse, rehearse, rehearse. The audience will only remember three messages. 9
1. Use Visual Aids
Remove the bullet points – use pictures instead.
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How we take in information during a presentation
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How should you use visual aids?
Use visuals (pictures, graphs, tables) whenever you can
In a speech you are only using 38% of the communication medium
Replace the bullet points
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Finding a Picture for your Presentation
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Making the presentation memorable
“A picture is worth a thousand words"
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Achieving your objectives
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Ice Breakers Power Point slides designed to get the audience interested - or even better, it can allow some form of audience participation. 16
2. Rehearsal
"If you fail to prepare, you are prepared to fail"
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How to Rehearse
Plan to rehearse your presentation out loud at least 4 times. Make sure that one of your rehearsals is in front of a really scary audience - family, friends, partners, colleagues, children. -They will tell you quite plainly where you
are going wrong - as well as providing you with the support that you need.
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Rehearse against the clock
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The Five Minute Presentation
Advertisers can get a complete story across in less than 30 seconds so five minutes should be fine. 20
"It takes five hours to prepare a five minute presentation"
Rehearsal
Memorize your script
Video or tape record yourself
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3. The Rule of Three The audience are likely to remember only three things from your presentation plan in advance what these will be. 22
The Rule of Three
There are three parts to your presentation
The beginning, the middle and the end.
Use lists of three wherever you can in your presentation In Presentations "Less is More"
If you have four points to get across cut one out. 23
Lose the Fear: Get out there and speak.
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Presentation Hints and Tips
Start with a quotation. Write it down
Write down your speech, but try not to read from it. If you have written it down - if you dry up, you will be able to pick it back up again. 25
Business presentation tips
Why are you presenting? Block out some time in your diary. Reduce bullet points, increase pictures. Rehearsing. “Selling yourself is a key part of commercial life”
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Incorporate Humor in your Presentation Appropriate humor relaxes an audience and makes it feel more comfortable with you as the speaker. 27
The other half of a presentation: your audience
The importance of good strong starts Reading your audience 28