Presentations: What Every Planner Needs To Know

PresentationsWhat every planner needs to know

Ryan Link
Planning / Public Involvement
Michael Baker Jr., Inc
Richmond, Virginia
804.287.3192
Email: rlink@mbakercorp.com
Twitter: @Ryan_Link

Icebreaker

Planning moves fast

As planners we are constantly looking for new tools for our toolbelt

Work on mastering the art of presentations

Presentations may be the most valuable tool in your tool belt
utility

Planning can get stale

We are born storytellers

Experience trumps research

“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.””
-Charles Mingus

The good, the bad, and the ugly

"One of the things I learned about in the formative stages of my career was public speaking. I learned by watching lots of presentations, and one thing I figured out early on is that most CFO-level speakers — particularly CEOs, particularly male CEOs—really suck as speakers. They're boring; they're long; they wander around. I saw speech after speech, and I discovered that if there's anything worse than a speaker who sucks, it's a speaker who sucks and you have no idea how much longer he or she is going to suck. That's a horrible feeling.
To prevent you from getting that feeling, I've developed a Top 10 format. All of my speeches are in Top 10 format, because if you think I suck, I at least want you to be able to track my progress through the speech so that you know approximately know how much longer I'm going to suck." — Guy Kawasaki

The evolution of PowerPoint Presentations
1987
PowerPoint is born
1995
PowerPoint Nirvana
2000
Term “Death by PowerPoint” coined
2005
90% of Presentations Suck (Guy Kawasaki)

PechaKucha: Get to the PowerPoint in 20 Slides Then Sit the Hell Down
-Daniel Pink
PechaKucha: Still PowerPoint – Just Not Resulting in Death
-Author Unknown

Examples

Majora Carter's tale of urban renewal

Al Gore's new thinking on the climate crisis

There are three key components to successful presentations

Preparation

Start with a beginners mind

Design

Cheesy Graphics

(b/f and after examples from PZ)

Picture of traditional bullet filled slide with presenter

Keep it Simple

Delivery

There is more than one way to skin a cat

Beyond Bullet Points

BBP Respects the Limits of Working Memory

Apply familiar organizing structures

Act I: The first five slides

Act II: justifying the call to action

Act III: Back to the beginning

Presentation Zen

What’s your point?
Why does it matter?

SUCCESs

Always bring it back to the point

The Exceptional Presenter

Posture

The window to your soul

Five effective ways to incorporate gestures

84%
of the impact you have on the phone comes from your voice
16%
of the impact you have on the phone comes from the words you use

Read your audience – get them involved

Exercise

The Scenario:
You are a member of a team from Virginia Tech tasked with developing a presentation that will be given to prospective undergraduate and graduate students. These students currently have the Virginia Tech MURP and Public and Urban Affairs programs on their short-list.
As a team you must develop a 15 minute presentation that makes the case that Virginia Tech is the right choice, the only choice for these prospective students.
The Scenario
Rules:
1. Open use of graphics, but must cite (not focused on resolution)

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by Ryan Link on Jul 12, 2010

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