How to Rock Your Next Presentation and Demo
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Whether you’re presenting internally to your company or if you are thinking about speaking at the next community group meeting, community conference or even Dreamforce, use these resources to learn best practices for developing an awesome presentation and demo that keeps your audience engaged, focused, and inspired.
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- 2. How to Rock Your Next Presentation and Demo
- 3. Sr. Director, Admin Relations Salesforce @Jchiles211 Director, Admin Marketing Salesforce @RebeccaSaar Josie Chiles Rebecca Saar Speakers Principal Admin Evangelist Salesforce @Leeanndroid LeeAnne Rimel
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- 5. What Makes a Presentation Good? Example 1 Example 2
- 6. What Worked? What Didn’t? Discuss in groups of 3 for 5 minutes
- 7. Effective Slides Focused Demo The Right Framework Successful Presentations Rock to This Beat
- 8. Successful Presentations Rock to This Beat The Right Framework Effective Slides Focused Demo
- 9. Know Your Audience End users Executives / Stakeholders Developers Admins
- 10. Find the right place to start Consider level of knowledge Reduce jargon Frame Your Presentation
- 11. Find Your focus What’s the one thing you want your audience to walk away knowing?
- 12. Include Key Story Attributes Strong title Key thesis Logical flow of ideas Memorable supporting details Conclusion or call to action Main character
- 13. 10 minutes Exercise #1: Establish Audience & Focus 1. Identify your audience 2. Define main takeaway 3. Describe key attributes Go to: bit.ly/RockyMyPresoWorksheet
- 14. Our Presentations Contain these Attributes Title Main character Supporting details Thesis Logical flow of ideas in slide titles
- 15. Leverage Common Story Frameworks Framework Good For Pain-Solution Customer pitch, first call deck New Idea New technology or idea Best Alternative Internal or external business decision Springboard Story Call to action is open ended Outline Conveying complex information Hero’s Journey Invoke emotion and action
- 16. Pain-Solution Framework Overview Situation 90% of the world’s data has been created in the last 12 months Complication Less than 1% of that data has been analyzed Question How do we close this data divide? Answer Introducing Einstein Analytics. Analytics for everyone. Proof points Redwood Insurance empowers 15,000 reps with data at their fingertips Call to action Take the Trailhead Trail to learn more.
- 17. Outline Framework Overview Example: Levers of Success Diagram Graphic 1. Build 2. Market 3. Sell 4. Service Build Market Sell Service Build Market Sell Service Text
- 18. Hero’s Journey Call to Adventure Excited by an opportunity Superpower Discover a new skill Challenges Put skills to the test, unforeseen obstacles Abyss Failure, forced to reevaluate strategy Transformation Change or Tweak strategy Return to Adventure Inspired to try again
- 19. Quiz Time! Admin Webinar Introducing the iPhone Cleaning Product Infomercial Outline New Idea Pain-Solution Frozen Hero’s Journey
- 20. 5 minutes Exercise #2: Choose Your Framework Pain-Solution New Idea Best Alternative Go to: bit.ly/RockyMyPresoWorksheet Springboard Story Outline Hero’s Journey
- 21. Rebecca Saar Director, Admin Marketing Salesforce @RebeccaSaar
- 22. Successful Presentations Rock to This Beat The Right Framework Effective Slides Focused Demo
- 23. In-Person Keynote for presos with visuals & large screens PPT if you’re using someone else’s computer Online Reduce animation & reliance on visuals Internet connection Are you presenting online or in-person? Consider The Setting Are you presenting internally or externally? Internally Google or Quip Slides allow for easy, quick edits Externally PPT & Keynote allow you to add more polish
- 24. Translate Your Story Into Slide Titles String together a story via slide titles Make them active, not passive Use Title Case titlecaseconverter.com
- 25. Build Your Slide To Support The Story Focus on 1 point with minimal supporting points per slide Leverage Templates Leave plenty of empty space Use visuals to convey meaning
- 26. Use Blue Boxing to Ensure Visuals Match Your Point
- 27. Get Real Detail Oriented Use Paint Brush! Crop To Shape Adjust Within Mask same font same size same color Top Align Equally Distribute Text Align TEXT IMAGES ALIGNMENT
- 28. Cloudy’s Candies Operations this year Cloudy’s Candys has had an interesting year. We have a lot to celebrate about. Gummy Bear sales are up and that’s great. But we have more ahead. We need to bring Jelly Bean sales back up. Slides are often hard to read and people stop paying attention half way through, or worse they stop listening to you. Key data shows promising trends: 20% growth in candy sales Jelly Beans sales have increased the most. Gummy Bears sales needs work
- 29. Check Before You Present ❏ Fix titles (title case) ❏ Evaluate subtitles ❏ Unify text treatment (fonts, font sizes, font color) ❏ Align shapes, objects and text boxes ❏ Resize and crop photos
- 30. LeeAnne Rimel Principal Admin Evangelist Salesforce @Leeanndroid
- 31. Successful Presentations Rock to This Beat The Right Framework Focused Demo Effective Slides
- 32. Follow the Demo Formula
- 33. Deliver Your Demo Seamlessly Engage Audience Set expectations Confirm understanding Be the tour guide Execute Your Plan Slow down Pause and reflect Mouse carefully Expect the Unexpected Screenshots/Videos Backup orgs Talk through it
- 34. Implement Key Best Practices Don’t demo in production! Hide sensitive data Preload everything you can: ● Bookmark links ● Login ● File paths ● Bookmarks Pro Tip: Use Keyboard Maestro
- 35. 10 minutes Exercise #3: Write Your Formula Business Need + Feature + Impact Go to: bit.ly/RockyMyPresoWorksheet
- 36. Check Before You Demo ❏ Restart your computer ❏ Turn off notifications & turn on do not disturb ❏ Quit all non-essential apps ❏ Clean your desktop ❏ Set up Browser (Chrome People, Bookmarks Bar)
- 37. Put It All Together
- 38. 1. Created An Outline & 2. Turned It Into a Showflow Intro 1 - story & structure frameworks/story telling It’s your turn: discussion question? worksheet 2 - deck (best practices) Bad slide, good slide (give em a bad slide) Blue boxing Templates Shortcuts (blackbelt tips) (supporting content: blog with tips) 3 - demo (best practices) Bad demo, good demo (supporting content: google chrome vid) Outro Time Activity/Topic Minutes Speaker 90 Intro & Examples & Ice-Breaker 12 Josie 77 Audience & Focus 5 Josie 70 Exercise #1 (audience, focus) 10 Josie 60 Frameworks 8 Josie 58 Exercise #2 (quiz & choose fw) 10 Josie 40 Slide Best Practices 10 Rebecca 35 Slide Live Edits 5 Rebecca 30 Demo Best Practices 5 LeeAnne 25 Actual Demo 5 LeeAnne 20 Exercise #3 (formula) 10 LeeAnne 10 Example 3 Rebecca 7 Close & Intentions 7 Rebecca
- 39. 4. Built Slides & Created Demo Click Path 5. Reviewed, Incorporated Feedback and Practiced!!
- 40. Effective Slides Focused Demo The Right Framework Successful Presentations Rock to This Beat
- 41. Practice Makes Perfect ! Tweet using: #RockMyPreso When and where you will put these best practices into action? Take the Public Speaking Trailhead Module
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- 43. Thank you