"Presentations 201" (Partial Sample Only) This is designed to stimulate "non-beginners" toward good thinking on public presentations. It can be delivered in person or online in 60 and 180 minute (3 hour) versions.

1. Presentations 201
SEND Canada COP
Rob “Mags” Magwood

2. Five Cardinal Sins
(Weissman)
1. No clear point
2. No audience benefit
3. No clear flow
4. Too detailed
5. Too long

3. Today’s Outline
1. Some “new” key concepts
2. The POWER Formula
3. Some PowerPoint principles
4. Some helpful resources

4. uninformed
dubious
resistant
understanding
believing
taking action!

5. “Unfortunately, and inexplicably,
Point B is missing from all too
many presentations.”
(Weissman)

6. Q!

7. Which “sin” is being committed?

8. The POWER Formula
The Articulate Executive
Granville Toogood (1996)

9. The Power Formula
PUNCH
2. Begin with the ending
3. Personal Story
4. Anecdote or Illustration
5. Rhetorical Question

10. “I think there is a market in the
world for maybe five computers.”
~ Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943

11. PowerPoint Slide Principles
 Be visual, not textual!

12. 10/40 Window
The term “10/40 Window” has been used to
describe a rectangular-shaped window ten
degrees by forty degrees north of the
equator spanning the globe from West
Africa to Asia, including over sixty countries
and more than two billion people. The
majority of the unreached peoples of the
world – ninety five percent of those who
have never heard the gospel and who are
not within reach of churches of their own
people – live within this window.

13. The Remaining Task
40o
o
10

14. Comments on Fonts (Size)
- As large as can reasonably
managed… (36 pt)
- Smaller fonts for notes, dates, etc. (24 pt.)

15. Font contrast
Have you ever seen
something like this?
It can be tough to read…

16. Resources
 Some good books…
 A great CD resource:
Exploring World Mission (Bryant Myers)
 A great website:
www.flickr.com
Remember, whenever possible, to give credit to the artist or source!!

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Presentations 201
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W eSEND Canada COP
Rob “Mags” Magwood