Power Up Your Presentation and be a more confident speaker!

1. Power Up
Your Presentation!
Diane Windingland
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6. 7 Power Tips
1. Give a “Bumper Sticker” Introduction
2. Create Memorable Openings and Closings
3. Engage with Stories
4. Structure with PREP
5. Maintain Eye Contact
6. Power Up Your PowerPoint
7. Deliver with Confidence!
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7. The Bumper Sticker

8. A Bumper Sticker answers the
question “What do you do?” in 5-10
seconds with a benefit focus.

9. I speak for organizations that want
to help their people have better,
more profitable conversations.

10. Tag line alternative:
I help people chit chat their way to
success.

11. Create your bumper sticker!
What you do
Whom you help & the benefit

12. Openings and Closings
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13. Start with 3 Ps
•Pep—Get attention!
•Promise—State benefit
•Path—Preview points
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14. Engage with Stories
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15. Pop Quiz

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21. A story puts facts into an emotional context

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Hyundai “First Date”
Super Bowl Commercial

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Super Bowl Ads
With 1 minute costing
$10 million
You could buy
Hyundai Genesis Cars
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24. The #1 Thing
Facts TELL
Stories SELL

25. Stories Connect

26. 2 Main Ways to Connect
•Similarity
–“Just like you”
•Vulnerability
–“I’m authentic”

28. Vulnerability/Authenticity
• Own your imperfections/mistakes
• Allow your enthusiasm to show
• Be present with people
• Share your inspiration, your “WHY”

29. When you connect
you can convince.

31. “People don’t just buy our
shoes, they tell our story”
- Blake Mycoskie, TOMS Shoes

32. Discovering Your Stories
1. Who thanks you the most?
2. Who had a really difficult challenge?
3. Did you develop a solution that you are
extremely proud of?

33. Then-Now-How
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34. Practice Then-Now-How
Then: painful situation (bad)
Now: Improved situation (good)
How: How did your process help?
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36. Dialogue
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Structure with P.R.E.P

39. PREP Structure
• (P) Position
• (R) Reason
• (E) Evidence
• (P) Position

40. PREP Practice
• Vacation Destination
• Big Ticket Item
• Favorite Restaurant

41. Eye Contact
• Keyword Notes
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43. Keyword Note Practice!
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44. Power Up Your PowerPoint
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45. Another
Boring
PowerPoint
Presentation?
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46. The Boring Agenda Slide
• Plan your presentation
• Discover 4 easy design principles
• Deliver with confidence
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48. Start with
Why
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49. Does your
Audience
care?
Start with
Why
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50. After
Why
Then plan
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54. 4 Easy Design Principles
Go BIG!
Contrast Less is
More
Rule of
Thirds
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55. Go BIG!
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56. Empowerment: Pass the Baton
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58. Empowerment
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59. Rule of
Thirds
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60. Beautiful Tree in Rolling Pasture
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66. Contrast
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67. Contrast
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68. Is this easy to read?
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69. Is this easy to read?
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70. Contrast
information
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71. U.S.A.
 Revis family
 North Carolina, U.S.A. $341.98/week
 Spaghetti, potatoes, sesame chicken
From the book “Hungry Planet”
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72. Chad
 Aboubakar family
 Breidjing Camp, Chad
 $1.23/week
 Soup with fresh sheep meat
From the book “Hungry Planet”
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73. Weekly Food Consumption
USA
 Revis family
 North Carolina,
U.S.A.
$341.98/week
 Spaghetti, potatoes,
sesame chicken
Chad
 Aboubakar family
 Breidjing Camp,
Chad
$1.23/week
 Soup with fresh
sheep meat
From the book, “Hungry Planet”
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74. Weekly Food Consumption
USA
$341.98
Chad
$1.23
From the book, “Hungry Planet”
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$1.23
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77. A picture
is worth a ______ ___.
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80. Less is
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81. What is the #1 problem?
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85. One idea per slide
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86. 6 X 6 Rule
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87. The 6 X 6 Rule
• No more than 6 bullets per slide
• No more than 6 words per bullet
• Don’t wrap points past one line
• Fade-in bullets one at a time
• This rule is better than wall-o-text.
• Ugh. BORING. TMI. Do you like?
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88. Make Information Visual
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89. My Family
• Diane, born in Oregon
• Sean, born in California
• Clara, born in California
• Yuri, born in Russia
• Kim, born in South Korea
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90. My Family
Diane, born in Oregon
Sean, born in California
Clara, born in California
Yuri, born in Russia
Kim, born in South Korea
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92. 4 Easy Design Principles
Go BIG!
Contrast Less is
More
Rule of
Thirds
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What does this eye-tracking study tell you?
Eye-tracking study by James Breeze at ObjectiveEyeTracking.com

95. A person starts dying
when they stop dreaming
-Brian Williams
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100. Sample PowerPoint Checklist
Laptop Handouts
AC Adapter handouts
Mouse flyers
biz. Cards
Electrical
Power strip Just in case
Extension cord remote batteries
spare bulb
Projector CD w/ ppt file
AC adapter flash drive w/ppt file
Lap top cable Speaker Notes
Remote control slides printout
Projector screen
Venue
Accessories set up
Speakers power access
Laser Pointer internet access
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102. Have Your Own Clock!
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(Big Clock HD app for iPhone)

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104. Another
Boring
PowerPoint
Presentation?
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105. Create a Confident Attitude

106. Fake it.
Do it not until
you make it,
but until you
become it.
--AMY CUDDY

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Give your audience a gift!

108. 7 Power Tips
1. Give a “Bumper Sticker” Introduction
2. Create Memorable Openings and Closings
3. Engage with Stories
4. Structure with PREP
5. Maintain Eye Contact
6. Power Up Your PowerPoint
7. Deliver with Confidence!
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