The document outlines 7 steps to conduct successful business seminars:
1. Know your audience by evaluating their demographics.
2. In your presentation, introduce the big picture, include 2-3 main appeal points with details and examples, and provide a brief concluding summary.
3. Use attention-grabbing visual aids like posters, brochures and interactive models to supplement your presentation.
4. Practice your presentation and get feedback from peers on your style and delivery.
5. When setting up for the seminar, check all equipment and materials and greet attendees.
6. Stick to the topic and outline while speaking clearly, slowly, and varying your pitch for emphasis.
7. Remain
The document discusses the importance of good presentation skills and provides tips for planning an effective presentation. It recommends determining the aim, audience, timing, and location of the presentation. The document also suggests structuring the presentation with an introduction that outlines the topic and agenda, a development section using techniques like humor and visual aids, and a conclusion that summarizes key points and next steps. Good preparation is emphasized as crucial for successful presentations.
To be successful in your career:
1) Be the first to arrive each day and take initiative on unresolved issues or projects others are ignoring. Set the example of a hard worker that others will follow.
2) Develop expertise in a specific area, such as turning around struggling employees or responding quickly to customers. Excel at your chosen mission.
3) Create your own side projects to stand out from just excelling at assigned work. Experiment with new processes or services for customers.
This document provides tips for pitching to investors or audiences in 3 main sections:
1. It outlines the basic structure of a pitch, including providing context, introducing the team and problem, explaining the solution and value proposition, discussing the market and go-to-market plan.
2. It emphasizes the importance of tailoring the pitch based on the audience, whether it's a formal presentation, discussion, or social setting.
3. Finally, it offers advice for preparing well, handling questions, managing nerves, and using body language effectively to present confidently. The overall message is that pitching is like stand-up comedy in maintaining a conversational tone.
The document provides tips for effective presentations, including keeping messages short and clear using 7 lines with 7 words per line, using contrasting colors and simple graphics. It recommends opening with an attention getter, engaging the audience with humor, speaking energetically while making eye contact, and using visual technology like digital projectors and posters to help the audience remember the presentation. The key message is that an powerful presentation is not defined by its subject but how the presenter delivers the content.
The document provides 15 keys to winning presentations which include preparing well, believing in yourself and your idea, knowing your purpose and audience, having a clear theme and points, using visuals to reinforce messages, practicing and getting feedback, being passionate and engaging, anticipating questions, and enjoying the process. It also discusses six myths that can stifle presenters such as a lack of natural talent or increased nerves, and recommends a six-step approach to better presentations involving planning, organizing, supporting points, staging, delivery, and follow-up.
Charlie Watson evaluated their game project. They found that research helped provide knowledge of how to progress the game, but could have done more inspiration research. Planning gave clarity and helped progress. Time management was good, although less time than the first project, and the game would have been more detailed and longer with more time.
The document outlines 7 steps to conduct successful business seminars:
1. Know your audience by evaluating their demographics.
2. In your presentation, introduce the big picture, include 2-3 main appeal points with details and examples, and provide a brief concluding summary.
3. Use attention-grabbing visual aids like posters, brochures and interactive models to supplement your presentation.
4. Practice your presentation and get feedback from peers on your style and delivery.
5. When setting up for the seminar, check all equipment and materials and greet attendees.
6. Stick to the topic and outline while speaking clearly, slowly, and varying your pitch for emphasis.
7. Remain
The document discusses the importance of good presentation skills and provides tips for planning an effective presentation. It recommends determining the aim, audience, timing, and location of the presentation. The document also suggests structuring the presentation with an introduction that outlines the topic and agenda, a development section using techniques like humor and visual aids, and a conclusion that summarizes key points and next steps. Good preparation is emphasized as crucial for successful presentations.
To be successful in your career:
1) Be the first to arrive each day and take initiative on unresolved issues or projects others are ignoring. Set the example of a hard worker that others will follow.
2) Develop expertise in a specific area, such as turning around struggling employees or responding quickly to customers. Excel at your chosen mission.
3) Create your own side projects to stand out from just excelling at assigned work. Experiment with new processes or services for customers.
This document provides tips for pitching to investors or audiences in 3 main sections:
1. It outlines the basic structure of a pitch, including providing context, introducing the team and problem, explaining the solution and value proposition, discussing the market and go-to-market plan.
2. It emphasizes the importance of tailoring the pitch based on the audience, whether it's a formal presentation, discussion, or social setting.
3. Finally, it offers advice for preparing well, handling questions, managing nerves, and using body language effectively to present confidently. The overall message is that pitching is like stand-up comedy in maintaining a conversational tone.
The document provides tips for effective presentations, including keeping messages short and clear using 7 lines with 7 words per line, using contrasting colors and simple graphics. It recommends opening with an attention getter, engaging the audience with humor, speaking energetically while making eye contact, and using visual technology like digital projectors and posters to help the audience remember the presentation. The key message is that an powerful presentation is not defined by its subject but how the presenter delivers the content.
The document provides 15 keys to winning presentations which include preparing well, believing in yourself and your idea, knowing your purpose and audience, having a clear theme and points, using visuals to reinforce messages, practicing and getting feedback, being passionate and engaging, anticipating questions, and enjoying the process. It also discusses six myths that can stifle presenters such as a lack of natural talent or increased nerves, and recommends a six-step approach to better presentations involving planning, organizing, supporting points, staging, delivery, and follow-up.
Charlie Watson evaluated their game project. They found that research helped provide knowledge of how to progress the game, but could have done more inspiration research. Planning gave clarity and helped progress. Time management was good, although less time than the first project, and the game would have been more detailed and longer with more time.
When it comes to presentations, there's no shortage of avenues when it comes to high resolution images, catchy copy lines and layouts that match the content.
The document provides tips for effective presentations, including determining the purpose and audience, showing how the information answers questions or solves problems for the audience, and following a "Tell, Tell, Tell" structure of first telling the audience what will be presented, then presenting it, and finally summarizing what was presented. It stresses the importance of respecting the audience, using time wisely, and rehearsing extensively to improve from the practiced speech to the actual one.
The document discusses different types of pitches, including elevator pitches lasting 20-30 seconds and business plan pitches that are 10-20 minutes with slides. It provides tips for pitching successfully, such as memorizing your pitch, telling stories to engage audiences, keeping the pitch short, being enthusiastic but not overbearing, adopting confident body language, dressing professionally, practicing extensively, and maintaining eye contact among other dos and don'ts. The overall goal is to spark interest in your product, service, or organization in a memorable yet concise manner.
This document discusses user journeys for government services. It notes that people use services either because they have to for legal or job reasons, or because they want to. Content designers should research user needs and behaviors like how people find services, whether they are focused or multi-tasking, and why they are using the service, such as to fix a problem. Designers should speak to GDS early on to understand research findings and how the service links to GOV.UK content. The document also discusses how to identify and address points of failure in user journeys, the importance of tracking progress, and working with communications and the wider organization to focus on user needs found through research.
This is a presentation I did for the guys and girls at Mazarin (Pvt) Ltd, on how to do an effective presentation. You can see some of the points mentioned in the presentation being used by checking out this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk8xNZQ3ZwE
This document provides information on blogging and blog coaching. It defines what a blog is, discusses the purposes of blogging including telling stories, connecting with others, and SEO. It also outlines different types of blogs and common stumbling blocks. The document recommends finding a blogging platform, developing ideas and committing time/energy. It notes blogs can be monetized with passion and marketing over time. Tips for getting started blogging and working with a blog coach are provided.
Berlin JTBD Meetup, March 24 2015 – On JTBD InterviewsTor Bollingmo
This document provides information about Jobs-to-be-Done (JTBD) interviews, including how to conduct them and use the results. JTBD interviews involve asking customers about the "jobs" or tasks they needed to accomplish and what led them to select a particular solution. The interviews follow a timeline to understand the events, problems, and motivations. Interview results can be used for sales and marketing, product design, innovation strategy, and more. The document outlines how to find people to interview, conduct the interviews by walking through their timeline, and analyze the results to find patterns and insights.
So you want to launch a podcast...
That’s what I thought to myself back in 2019 when I launched WPCoffeeTalk. I learned by doing. (Which means I learned by making a LOT of mistakes.)
Since then I’ve launched a few more podcasts, guested on even more, and co-host a few, too.
Launching a podcast is amazing, but there’s a lot you need to take into consideration, and a lot of questions to ask yourself when you get started.
Learn what to do (and what not to do) when you decide it’s time to start podcasting!
5 Days online Certificate Course on “STRATEGIES TO ADDRESS THE SOFT SKILL GAP” from 27-4-2020 to 1-5-2020.
Course Title: STRATEGIES TO ADDRESS THE SOFT SKILL GAP
Course Date: 27.4.2020 (Monday) to 1.5.2020 (Friday)
Course Objective: The objective of the course is to develop effective People skills and to become self-confident individuals by mastering inter-personal skills with a mature outlook to function effectively in different circumstances.
Course Content:
Day 3 (29.4.2020) Presentation Skills
Course Instructor: Mr. T.Vishnupriyan,
Associate Editor and Assistant Professor,
IJASRW & The Central Law College, Salem.
The document provides tips for planning and delivering presentations at technical conferences. It discusses choosing a topic you are enthusiastic about, preparing your slides and rehearsing your presentation, tailoring your talk for the audience, handling questions, and following up after the event. The overall message is to focus on a compelling topic you are excited about, prepare thoroughly, relax and have fun during the presentation, and engage with other presenters and attendees.
This document provides guidance on building products customers love using the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) approach. It emphasizes defining customer segments, choosing an MVP to test expected results, building the MVP, interviewing customers to analyze results and insights, and iterating based on customer feedback. Sample MVPs are discussed, like Pinterest starting with 89 monthly minutes per user or Gmail focusing on making 100 users happy. The document concludes by instructing readers to conduct customer interviews, run experiments, and report findings from at least two experiments with 10-40 customer interactions each.
Need to make a poster for a class or conference? This presentation describes the poster, provides tips and step-by-step instructions using Google slides.
Building Great Relationships With Your Team by Intercom Sr PMProduct School
The document discusses building great relationships with your team as a product manager. It provides three principles: 1) connect with each individual personally through 1:1 meetings, 2) create psychologically safe spaces through rituals like lean coffees, and 3) foster strong partnerships by treating team members as co-founders. The presentation encourages spending time collaborating and focusing on long-term goals and impact rather than day-to-day tasks. Product management is about providing direction and alignment. Building relationships is key to effective product management.
This document outlines an agenda for a user experience design workshop. It includes:
- Introductions and an overview of what user experience design and being a UX consultant entails.
- A hands-on user interview exercise where participants practice interview skills in small groups to understand users' needs.
- A re-cap that reflects on challenges with interviews and how participants would improve, as well as a "cheat sheet" of UX tips.
The workshop aims to educate participants about user experience design and give them experience conducting user research interviews.
In this intensive 3-part workshop, we will explore specific skills that will help a startup succeed in getting high quality data from primary market research, cheaply and quickly. We will start with a quick overview of common research techniques that are critical for founders to excel in, and then jump right into in-class simulations of three techniques:
• Detailed interviews – the foundational skillset for good primary market research, especially at the discovery stage where we don’t really know what we don’t know. Knowing how to ask open ended questions without leading the witness is a critical skill to learn. We will start with a demonstration, discuss best practices, and then students will pair up to practice their interviewing skills on each other.
• Card sorting – once the startup has a good idea of the target market and the customer’s needs and wants, it’s time to brainstorm solutions. But how do you categorize and prioritize potential features? In this workshop, we will engage the entire class in a card sorting exercise to show how this low-tech method can yield high-quality data in just 5-10 minutes with a potential end user or economic buyer.
• Landing pages – for a lot of direct-to-consumer businesses, as well as some b2b businesses, decision makers and influencers can be reached on line – and there is a wealth of data you can collect with free or very cheap digital experimentation. In this segment we will show how you can set up a landing page on an experimental platform and send it off to a list of target participants to get feedback in less than 20 minutes.
Breaking Down Biases w/ Adversarial PM Techniques by Philosophie Dir of AIProduct School
Main takeaways:
-How to use random processes to break out of biases you don't know you have
-How to use noise to understand the world and interpret the ambiguity you see
-How to use chaos to build more resilient teams
Here you can find 21 ways to boost your event or conference. Cyriel has a lot of experience as Master of Interaction and loves to share his knowledge and experience in some very practical ways to inspire, engage and wake up your audience. Enjoy!
5 things I wish I knew before becoming a VFX Artist / Paulina Grigonis (Tuatara)DevGAMM Conference
The document provides advice for those wishing to become a VFX artist in 5 points:
1) It's normal to feel overwhelmed or have moments of self-doubt, so it's important not to waste time doubting yourself.
2) Pursuing a career in VFX takes significant time and patience to build experience and skills.
3) Listening to your instincts is essential to avoid settling for what doesn't feel right and to gain relevant experience quickly.
4) Don't stress over specific tools or techniques, as there are multiple ways to achieve the same results and skills develop over time.
5) It's okay to ask for help or advice from others in the field to help
When it comes to presentations, there's no shortage of avenues when it comes to high resolution images, catchy copy lines and layouts that match the content.
The document provides tips for effective presentations, including determining the purpose and audience, showing how the information answers questions or solves problems for the audience, and following a "Tell, Tell, Tell" structure of first telling the audience what will be presented, then presenting it, and finally summarizing what was presented. It stresses the importance of respecting the audience, using time wisely, and rehearsing extensively to improve from the practiced speech to the actual one.
The document discusses different types of pitches, including elevator pitches lasting 20-30 seconds and business plan pitches that are 10-20 minutes with slides. It provides tips for pitching successfully, such as memorizing your pitch, telling stories to engage audiences, keeping the pitch short, being enthusiastic but not overbearing, adopting confident body language, dressing professionally, practicing extensively, and maintaining eye contact among other dos and don'ts. The overall goal is to spark interest in your product, service, or organization in a memorable yet concise manner.
This document discusses user journeys for government services. It notes that people use services either because they have to for legal or job reasons, or because they want to. Content designers should research user needs and behaviors like how people find services, whether they are focused or multi-tasking, and why they are using the service, such as to fix a problem. Designers should speak to GDS early on to understand research findings and how the service links to GOV.UK content. The document also discusses how to identify and address points of failure in user journeys, the importance of tracking progress, and working with communications and the wider organization to focus on user needs found through research.
This is a presentation I did for the guys and girls at Mazarin (Pvt) Ltd, on how to do an effective presentation. You can see some of the points mentioned in the presentation being used by checking out this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk8xNZQ3ZwE
This document provides information on blogging and blog coaching. It defines what a blog is, discusses the purposes of blogging including telling stories, connecting with others, and SEO. It also outlines different types of blogs and common stumbling blocks. The document recommends finding a blogging platform, developing ideas and committing time/energy. It notes blogs can be monetized with passion and marketing over time. Tips for getting started blogging and working with a blog coach are provided.
Berlin JTBD Meetup, March 24 2015 – On JTBD InterviewsTor Bollingmo
This document provides information about Jobs-to-be-Done (JTBD) interviews, including how to conduct them and use the results. JTBD interviews involve asking customers about the "jobs" or tasks they needed to accomplish and what led them to select a particular solution. The interviews follow a timeline to understand the events, problems, and motivations. Interview results can be used for sales and marketing, product design, innovation strategy, and more. The document outlines how to find people to interview, conduct the interviews by walking through their timeline, and analyze the results to find patterns and insights.
So you want to launch a podcast...
That’s what I thought to myself back in 2019 when I launched WPCoffeeTalk. I learned by doing. (Which means I learned by making a LOT of mistakes.)
Since then I’ve launched a few more podcasts, guested on even more, and co-host a few, too.
Launching a podcast is amazing, but there’s a lot you need to take into consideration, and a lot of questions to ask yourself when you get started.
Learn what to do (and what not to do) when you decide it’s time to start podcasting!
5 Days online Certificate Course on “STRATEGIES TO ADDRESS THE SOFT SKILL GAP” from 27-4-2020 to 1-5-2020.
Course Title: STRATEGIES TO ADDRESS THE SOFT SKILL GAP
Course Date: 27.4.2020 (Monday) to 1.5.2020 (Friday)
Course Objective: The objective of the course is to develop effective People skills and to become self-confident individuals by mastering inter-personal skills with a mature outlook to function effectively in different circumstances.
Course Content:
Day 3 (29.4.2020) Presentation Skills
Course Instructor: Mr. T.Vishnupriyan,
Associate Editor and Assistant Professor,
IJASRW & The Central Law College, Salem.
The document provides tips for planning and delivering presentations at technical conferences. It discusses choosing a topic you are enthusiastic about, preparing your slides and rehearsing your presentation, tailoring your talk for the audience, handling questions, and following up after the event. The overall message is to focus on a compelling topic you are excited about, prepare thoroughly, relax and have fun during the presentation, and engage with other presenters and attendees.
This document provides guidance on building products customers love using the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) approach. It emphasizes defining customer segments, choosing an MVP to test expected results, building the MVP, interviewing customers to analyze results and insights, and iterating based on customer feedback. Sample MVPs are discussed, like Pinterest starting with 89 monthly minutes per user or Gmail focusing on making 100 users happy. The document concludes by instructing readers to conduct customer interviews, run experiments, and report findings from at least two experiments with 10-40 customer interactions each.
Need to make a poster for a class or conference? This presentation describes the poster, provides tips and step-by-step instructions using Google slides.
Building Great Relationships With Your Team by Intercom Sr PMProduct School
The document discusses building great relationships with your team as a product manager. It provides three principles: 1) connect with each individual personally through 1:1 meetings, 2) create psychologically safe spaces through rituals like lean coffees, and 3) foster strong partnerships by treating team members as co-founders. The presentation encourages spending time collaborating and focusing on long-term goals and impact rather than day-to-day tasks. Product management is about providing direction and alignment. Building relationships is key to effective product management.
This document outlines an agenda for a user experience design workshop. It includes:
- Introductions and an overview of what user experience design and being a UX consultant entails.
- A hands-on user interview exercise where participants practice interview skills in small groups to understand users' needs.
- A re-cap that reflects on challenges with interviews and how participants would improve, as well as a "cheat sheet" of UX tips.
The workshop aims to educate participants about user experience design and give them experience conducting user research interviews.
In this intensive 3-part workshop, we will explore specific skills that will help a startup succeed in getting high quality data from primary market research, cheaply and quickly. We will start with a quick overview of common research techniques that are critical for founders to excel in, and then jump right into in-class simulations of three techniques:
• Detailed interviews – the foundational skillset for good primary market research, especially at the discovery stage where we don’t really know what we don’t know. Knowing how to ask open ended questions without leading the witness is a critical skill to learn. We will start with a demonstration, discuss best practices, and then students will pair up to practice their interviewing skills on each other.
• Card sorting – once the startup has a good idea of the target market and the customer’s needs and wants, it’s time to brainstorm solutions. But how do you categorize and prioritize potential features? In this workshop, we will engage the entire class in a card sorting exercise to show how this low-tech method can yield high-quality data in just 5-10 minutes with a potential end user or economic buyer.
• Landing pages – for a lot of direct-to-consumer businesses, as well as some b2b businesses, decision makers and influencers can be reached on line – and there is a wealth of data you can collect with free or very cheap digital experimentation. In this segment we will show how you can set up a landing page on an experimental platform and send it off to a list of target participants to get feedback in less than 20 minutes.
Breaking Down Biases w/ Adversarial PM Techniques by Philosophie Dir of AIProduct School
Main takeaways:
-How to use random processes to break out of biases you don't know you have
-How to use noise to understand the world and interpret the ambiguity you see
-How to use chaos to build more resilient teams
Here you can find 21 ways to boost your event or conference. Cyriel has a lot of experience as Master of Interaction and loves to share his knowledge and experience in some very practical ways to inspire, engage and wake up your audience. Enjoy!
5 things I wish I knew before becoming a VFX Artist / Paulina Grigonis (Tuatara)DevGAMM Conference
The document provides advice for those wishing to become a VFX artist in 5 points:
1) It's normal to feel overwhelmed or have moments of self-doubt, so it's important not to waste time doubting yourself.
2) Pursuing a career in VFX takes significant time and patience to build experience and skills.
3) Listening to your instincts is essential to avoid settling for what doesn't feel right and to gain relevant experience quickly.
4) Don't stress over specific tools or techniques, as there are multiple ways to achieve the same results and skills develop over time.
5) It's okay to ask for help or advice from others in the field to help
This document provides an agenda and overview for a two-day experience design workshop. Day 1 focuses on research techniques like interviews and creating personas from research. Participants will learn about vision, brand promise, and the 5E experience model. Day 2 covers design techniques such as journey mapping and prototyping experiences. The intended outcomes are a powerful group learning experience that inspires and empowers participants creatively. Participants will use three experience design tools to develop their projects. The workshop aims to teach what experience design is and practice the tools, methods and mindsets for designing meaningful experiences.
How to monetize your podcast without selling your soul...Tom Tate
This is a deck I presented in September at the Mid-Atlantic Podcast Conference, just outside of Philadelphia. In this talk, I shared opportunities for podcasters to monetize their show without dealing with irrelevant or poor partnerships.
Design Studio is a collaborative and iterative workshop format used to detect hidden requirements through active discussion. It combines solitary and group work with critiques every 5 minutes following strict critique rules. The workshop lasts around 5-6 hours and includes warming up, preparing user research and inspiration, setting the scope and goals, and multiple rounds of individual design, critiques, and group work to improve concepts based on feedback.
Similar to Always be learning - be more certain with minimal effort - Pieter Koenis @ UX crunch session 17-09-2019 (20)
International Upcycling Research Network advisory board meeting 4Kyungeun Sung
Slides used for the International Upcycling Research Network advisory board 4 (last one). The project is based at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK, and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
4. Who Pieter Koenis
I started my career as a backpacker
Continued in sales & marketing
Following I became product manager
And finally it all fell into place…
I got into UX research
Introduction
9. Customer
ˈkʌstəmə/
A person who buys goods or services
from a shop or business.
Introduction
The capacity to gain an accurate and
deep understanding of someone or
something.
Insight
ˈɪnsʌɪt/
12. Listen in with support or sales calls
1. Contact the manager of your
support or sales team
2. Make an appointment
● A support or sales team
● 30 min spare time
Bonus
● Coffee for both you and your
colleague
What you needPreparation - 2 min
15. Hang out with your customers
1. Check for places or events
2. Sign-up or buy tickets
Pro tip
● Go alone
● A free evening
● Interest to learn
Bonus
● You’ll most likely get free pizza
and beers
What you needPreparation - 5 min
23. Online testing
1. Make a screenshot of the page
you want to test
2. Write a short scenario for the
testers
3. A tool like UsabilityHub or just
show people slides
● A way to show screens
● People from your target
audience
What you needPreparation - 5 min
27. Paper (prototype) co-generative session
1. Print your website or prototype
2. Make a 30 minute appointment
with some people of your target
audience
● Paper, scissors and a pen
● People from your target
audience
Pro tip
● Let the participants lead
What you needPreparation - 20 min
30. Guerrilla testing
1. Write a script for a 5-10 min
interview
2. Prototype or design (optional)
Preparation - 30 min
31. Guerrilla testing
1. Write a script for a 5-10 min
interview
2. Prototype or design (optional)
Pro tip
● Go somewhere people have
spare time
● Bring an incentive
● A place where your target
audience is
● Preferably someone who can
take notes
What you needPreparation - 15 min