This document summarizes a training on presentation and facilitation skills led by Dr. Michael McNeil on March 17, 2013. The training covered various topics to improve presentation abilities such as setting the stage, being authentic, finding your voice, using humor and stories, practicing, using visuals effectively, and wrapping up presentations well. The document includes outlines, examples, and activities to illustrate different techniques for connecting with an audience and engaging participants.

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3. Who Are You?
Name
Year/Major
Why did you apply to be a peer educator, facilitator,
orientation leader, etc.? (briefly)
One positive or negative you’ve observed in presentations &
facilitations.
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4. Outline for Today
Presentation & Facilitation Basics
Setting the Stage
Being Authentic
Finding Your Voice
Using Humor
Using Stories
Practice Makes Perfect
I Can See
And Then it Was Over
Other “Stuff”
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5. Activity
Building A Machine
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6. Facilitation &
Presentation
Basics
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7. Overview
Why do we present & facilitate
Creating a positive environment
Connecting with your participants
Expectations
Personalities
Dealing with difficult questions
We’ve all got “issues”
Personal questions
Presentation and facilitation tips
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8. Activity
Quick Quiz
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9. Why This Matters
Teach and reinforce key learning points
Allow for further exploration of a topic
Correct misperceptions and misinformation
Engage students not as a target audience, but as active
community members
You are here to support student success
No desire to “tell students what to do”
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12. Let’s Discuss
Presentations
What worked well?
What challenges have you encountered?
What secrets to success should we all know?
Group facilitation
What worked well?
What challenges have you encountered?
What secrets to success should we all know?
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13. The Environment
Creating a supportive
environment
On the halls/in lounges
Space for an honest conversation
Range of emotion & experience
You can’t control everything
Circle up
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15. Connecting with participants
Authenticity (more on this later)
Openness
Presenter
Diffuse the difficult
Go ahead and “try”
Audience Material
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16. Activity
Stand Up If…
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19. Setting the
Stage
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22. Activity
Listen, Read
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25. Movement
It’s about finding the right balance
You can’t script or plan gestures
Know your physical habits
Occupy the space without flopping about
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27. Activities & Engagement
Engaging participants is a goal
Active learning is more likely to be retained
Avoid lectures, you have classes for that
Choose carefully
Must connect to the message
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28. Example
THE TEN PERSON LINE-UP
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30. Being
Authentic
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31. Being Authentic
Of course you’re nervous
Don’t apologize
You know your topic!
Edutainment
It’s ok to say “I don’t know”
Effective referrals
The Eyes have it
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32. Authenticity
Be excited and engaged
Stay true to yourself
We can tell if you are “faking”
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33. Finding Your
Voice
“Be who you are and be that well”
- St. Francis DeSales
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34. Finding Your Voice
Your voice is only present when you are authentic
Nervous energy can become excitement
Clear, focused, engaged
Slow down – it’s not a race
Vary in pitch and pace
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35. Words, Words, Words
Personal vocabulary BOO_S
Audience vocabulary _ _NDOM
Campus vocabulary F_ _K
Word Choice Example P_N_S
What questions can I
answer for you?
PU_S_
S_X
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37. Fun Facts
Random trivia for the topic suggests a learned person
Did you know…
Louisiana has the fewest counties of any state
The roof of the Superdome is nearly 10 acres in size
Tulane was founded as a public medical college
Only American university to go from public to private
Newcombe was a model for Barnard College (affiliated with Columbia
University)
One of the first schools of public health, only US school of Tropical
Medicine
Tulane students are ranked among the happiest in US higher education
Luther Terry, Former US Surgeon General, issued first tobacco warnings
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39. Activity
Tell me about it
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41. They Said It...
“Laughter is the most healthful exertion.”
-Christoph Wildelm Hufeland
“We’re all here for a spell, get all the good laughs
you can.” - Will Rogers
“Life does not cease to be funny when people die,
any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.”
- George Bernard Shaw
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42. Using Humor Basics
Telling jokes or using humor
Humor is universal – sources are not
The call back
“Dick” jokes
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46. Using Stories
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47. Using Stories
Stories are useful to illustrate a point
Generally should be short
Must be clearly related to the topic
Stories about you and your world work best (you know
them)
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48. Example
SINGLE AWARENESS DAY
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49. Practice Makes
Perfect
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50. Practice Makes Perfect
What’s in it for them?
Think about what they need not what you want to say
Perfect your introduction
Don’t schedule your movements
Always be early and be ready for anything
Go with the flow
Don’t worry if it’s not the way you wanted it
Stick the landing
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51. Activity
All About You
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53. I Can See
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54. Visuals
The prop trap (use your toys for good, not evil)
Interesting and engaging images
PPT was not designed for education
Slides are crappy handouts
Complementary material
Less is more
Flipcharts are your friend
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56. Activity
Anything But…
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57. Example
FOUR BEHAVIORS
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59. Example
FINDING RELIGION
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60. And Then It
Was Over
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63. Activity
Giving Feedback
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64. An Afternoon at the Museum
In groups of 5
Spend two minutes each sharing presenting the your most
interesting reflection from the visit to the museum
After all have shared, spend 2 minutes each providing
feedback
Strengths
Growth Opportunities
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65. Other “Stuff”
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66. The Other “Stuff”
A Tweet or FB post is a victory
“This one time, at #BACCHUSGA, I heard a story about an old nerd
stripping. #awkward”
I have to do it again?
The details matter
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