Basic Presentation Skills : Basic Presentation Skills Understanding the Value of Conveying Your Ideas
Basic Presentation Skills : Basic Presentation Skills Agenda
Knowing Your Goals
The Secret of Speaking to An Audience
Speaking Principles
Organizing Your Thoughts
Your Appearance
Presentation Tricks
What You Imagine Your Event Will Be : What You Imagine Your Event Will Be
Your Moment Of Truth : Your Moment Of Truth
Living Through The Reality Of It All : Living Through The Reality Of It All
Your Worse Fears Realized : Your Worse Fears Realized
Knowing Your Goal : Knowing Your Goal Which of these is your goal?
Inform
Entertain
Challenge
Compete
Interact
Speak Depends on your audience
The Secret of Speaking to An Audience : The Secret of Speaking to An Audience Being Able To Tell A Great Story
Part of our DNA
Helps Us Connect
A Great Story Includes:
Opening
Unique or Interesting Setting
Conflict or Dilemma
Hero and a Protagonist
Positive Outcome
Not A Good Story : Not A Good Story Once Upon A time… Everyone Dies. Ye Old Tech Story Told Every Day
Usable Story Lines : Usable Story Lines The Maverick
Plays the odds and comes out on top
The Rock Star
Utilizes their charisma to win over the crowd
The Detective
Follows clues to find the hidden treasure
Story Interaction : Story Interaction The Serve and Volley
So what do you think?
Chops it up into digestible parts
Helps the presentation be more interactive
Traps include:
“Rat Hole” where a single element is focused on
“One’s and Zero’s” where too much attention is placed on technical elements
Escapes include:
Move questions around the room
Set up side-bar discussions for after the meeting
Delivering Bad News : Delivering Bad News Sometimes you are delivering bad news having an organized agenda works to further solidify your position and allows your audience to prepare themselves.
Be Careful!
Never use the word “honest” when delivering bad news
Follow up bad news with what you learned. Offer up proposed fixes and let your audience have input
Your biggest trap is emotion. If you organize and stick to your agenda you can navigate these waters as best as is humanly possible
Organize Your Thoughts : Organize Your Thoughts Introduce Your Topic
Explain Your Position On The Topic
Explain Why Your Position Has Merit
Give An Example Of That Merit
Tie The Merit To Audience
Finish With Your Conclusions
Ask For Questions
Organize Your Appearance : Organize Your Appearance What Is The Image Of Success?
There isn’t one
Success Is Confidence
Confidence comes with Experience
Until then, at least wear dress slacks, button down shirt and a blazer with dress shoes
The Visual Presenter : The Visual Presenter
Presentation Tricks : Presentation Tricks Look at their Eyebrows
Only memorize your opening statement
Practice facial expressions
Yes in front of a mirror
Stand Still for 30 seconds
Have a peer give you a signal when to move
Speak slowly (3 minutes / slide)
Never EVER read the slide! EVER!