This document provides 15.5 techniques to make presentations more engaging. It suggests tailoring presentations to the audience by understanding their interests. Presenters should engage the audience early by soliciting questions before the event. Visuals should complement the presentation and not be overcrowded with text. Stories are an effective way to connect with audiences by sharing personal anecdotes. Presenters should embrace technology tools but use them in a way that enhances rather than distracts from the presentation. The overall message is that engaging and interactive presentations will inspire audiences more than passive, lecture-style formats.
This document provides a summary of a longer document that criticizes the typical ineffective use of PowerPoint presentations and provides suggestions to create more impactful presentations. The summary is:
1) PowerPoint is often used as a teleprompter, written record, or memory aid rather than for true communication, which requires transferring emotion.
2) Microsoft templates and tools encourage overuse of bullet points and poor design that hinders communication.
3) Effective presentations combine logical facts with emotional engagement of the audience and are used to persuade rather than just inform.
4) The document provides tips to improve presentations, such as limiting words on slides, using evocative images, and creating an emotional experience for the audience.
The document provides tips for creating an effective elevator pitch. It recommends focusing on why the problem exists, why you can solve it better than others, and why the audience should care. The pitch should have a strong leading statement like "We solve X problem for Y customers." When giving the pitch, stand up straight, make eye contact, and rehearse it without memorizing to convey the idea naturally. The goal is to make the audience like, believe, and support you.
The document discusses how web conferencing solutions like Zoom saw explosive growth with the rise of remote work and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. It notes that while these tools allow communication without physical presence, online meetings and classes can lack interactivity and body language. To keep audiences engaged, the document recommends using a visualizer device to display materials spontaneously and reset attention spans, as visual content is better retained than text-heavy slides. Integrating the visualizer's live camera feed into conferencing platforms like Zoom allows for flexibility and interaction lacking in static presentations.
The document provides tips on how to become a world-class presenter by going beyond merely being presentable. It discusses overcoming the fear of public speaking by focusing on the audience, ensuring the topic is relevant, and focusing on the specific task at hand and desired outcome. It emphasizes the importance of thoroughly researching the audience and finding a "hot angle" to present even old topics in a new engaging way. It notes this is just an overview and there are many tools in the presenter's toolbox to utilize, encouraging practicing speaking in everyday life to build confidence and habits for formal presentations.
When you hire BuzzMaster you get a great audience interaction tool for your event or conference, AND a BuzzMaster who takes care of all the technical requirements while assisting the speaker or moderator on stage. That's a given. But what can you actually do with this winning combination? There are a lot of different options in designing your personalized set with your BuzzMaster. This eBook gives you a taste of all our different format possibilities!
The document provides tips for creating effective presentations using PowerPoint. It recommends using visuals like images over text-heavy bullet points, incorporating stories and narratives to increase memorability, and keeping slides simple with minimal extraneous content. Presenters are advised to avoid just reading slides verbatim and instead use the slides as a supplement to their live narration. The document also emphasizes designing slides according to principles like empty space, rule of thirds for image placement, and using sans-serif fonts for readability.
2014 08-04 sing networking nuts-and-bolts workshopThomas M. Loarie
The document is a presentation on networking that aims to break down myths and fears associated with it. It defines networking as relationship building and information exchange that can potentially lead to job opportunities. It outlines objectives of understanding networking, examining how to do it authentically, and setting goals. Key advice includes starting with existing contacts, being clear on goals, following up, and not framing it as job seeking. The presentation encourages participants to set a networking challenge and have a follow up check in.
5 Easy Steps to Social Media progress for your Non-Profit - Presented to Oakl...Dan Cohen
Five Social Media steps to take right now for your non-profit organization
Program sponsored by CARD - Collaborating Agencies Responding to Disaster & the Alameda County Public Health Department
This document provides a summary of a longer document that criticizes the typical ineffective use of PowerPoint presentations and provides suggestions to create more impactful presentations. The summary is:
1) PowerPoint is often used as a teleprompter, written record, or memory aid rather than for true communication, which requires transferring emotion.
2) Microsoft templates and tools encourage overuse of bullet points and poor design that hinders communication.
3) Effective presentations combine logical facts with emotional engagement of the audience and are used to persuade rather than just inform.
4) The document provides tips to improve presentations, such as limiting words on slides, using evocative images, and creating an emotional experience for the audience.
The document provides tips for creating an effective elevator pitch. It recommends focusing on why the problem exists, why you can solve it better than others, and why the audience should care. The pitch should have a strong leading statement like "We solve X problem for Y customers." When giving the pitch, stand up straight, make eye contact, and rehearse it without memorizing to convey the idea naturally. The goal is to make the audience like, believe, and support you.
The document discusses how web conferencing solutions like Zoom saw explosive growth with the rise of remote work and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. It notes that while these tools allow communication without physical presence, online meetings and classes can lack interactivity and body language. To keep audiences engaged, the document recommends using a visualizer device to display materials spontaneously and reset attention spans, as visual content is better retained than text-heavy slides. Integrating the visualizer's live camera feed into conferencing platforms like Zoom allows for flexibility and interaction lacking in static presentations.
The document provides tips on how to become a world-class presenter by going beyond merely being presentable. It discusses overcoming the fear of public speaking by focusing on the audience, ensuring the topic is relevant, and focusing on the specific task at hand and desired outcome. It emphasizes the importance of thoroughly researching the audience and finding a "hot angle" to present even old topics in a new engaging way. It notes this is just an overview and there are many tools in the presenter's toolbox to utilize, encouraging practicing speaking in everyday life to build confidence and habits for formal presentations.
When you hire BuzzMaster you get a great audience interaction tool for your event or conference, AND a BuzzMaster who takes care of all the technical requirements while assisting the speaker or moderator on stage. That's a given. But what can you actually do with this winning combination? There are a lot of different options in designing your personalized set with your BuzzMaster. This eBook gives you a taste of all our different format possibilities!
The document provides tips for creating effective presentations using PowerPoint. It recommends using visuals like images over text-heavy bullet points, incorporating stories and narratives to increase memorability, and keeping slides simple with minimal extraneous content. Presenters are advised to avoid just reading slides verbatim and instead use the slides as a supplement to their live narration. The document also emphasizes designing slides according to principles like empty space, rule of thirds for image placement, and using sans-serif fonts for readability.
2014 08-04 sing networking nuts-and-bolts workshopThomas M. Loarie
The document is a presentation on networking that aims to break down myths and fears associated with it. It defines networking as relationship building and information exchange that can potentially lead to job opportunities. It outlines objectives of understanding networking, examining how to do it authentically, and setting goals. Key advice includes starting with existing contacts, being clear on goals, following up, and not framing it as job seeking. The presentation encourages participants to set a networking challenge and have a follow up check in.
5 Easy Steps to Social Media progress for your Non-Profit - Presented to Oakl...Dan Cohen
Five Social Media steps to take right now for your non-profit organization
Program sponsored by CARD - Collaborating Agencies Responding to Disaster & the Alameda County Public Health Department
Communicating Insight - MRS Members Evening PresentationMRS
The document provides an overview of a workshop on communicating insight. The workshop aims to teach participants how to apply effective communication fundamentals to debriefs and deliverables, define and communicate insight with a confident point of view using a clear, concise, and compelling story, and consider how visual design impacts how a story is received and understood. The workshop covers topics like defining insight, distinguishing facts from insights, evaluating insights, using a "hook, line, and thinker" structure to tell a story with the insight, and visual storytelling techniques.
Evolution of a Fellow - And Introduction to the William J. Clinton Fellowship...aifoundation
Coco Vonnegut reflects on her experience as an AIF William J. Clinton Fellow placed at Khamir, an NGO in Kachchh, Gujarat, India. She describes the typical stages a fellow goes through, including an initial "honeymoon phase", followed by periods of failure, confusion, hard work, and ultimately success. Through challenges along the way, she learned valuable lessons about communication, adaptability, and using her skills and talents to make an impact. The fellowship transformed her both professionally and personally, fueling her passion for development work.
This document provides guidance on networking fundamentals and best practices. It recommends preparing in advance by developing introductions, initiating questions, value statements, and exit strategies. At events, it suggests proactively engaging others by asking open-ended questions, listening, and focusing on the other person. After events, one should follow up appropriately and continually seek out new networking opportunities to improve their skills. The document also provides sample questions and tips for remembering names to facilitate successful networking.
This document provides guidance on how to create engaging presentations that avoid being boring ("death by PowerPoint"). It recommends focusing on understanding the audience's needs and problems, crafting a narrative structure for the presentation with a clear beginning, middle and end, and using interactive formats to actively involve the audience such as polling, group activities, demonstrations and speed pitches. The goal is to help speakers connect with audiences and deliver their message in the most impactful way.
Job Hunting - How to boost your chances by building your networkMalcolm Hornby
The document provides advice on developing a long-term networking strategy to advance one's career. It discusses developing a "brand identity" through various networking opportunities and maintaining relationships over time. Specific tactics for job seekers are also outlined, such as identifying the top 15 people in one's network to initially contact for advice and referrals to expand one's network. The importance of following up and expressing appreciation is emphasized. Overall, the document encourages a strategic and proactive approach to networking to achieve career goals.
The document provides tips for creating effective PowerPoint presentations and reading decks. It distinguishes between presentation decks, which are used to complement an oral presentation, and reading decks, which are sent for others to read on their own. Key recommendations include keeping presentation decks concise with 4-5 key points, engaging graphics, and interactivity; and using consistent formatting and voice in all decks. The document emphasizes that decks should support clear communication goals rather than just organizing information.
Helping non profits make the most out of their websites. Presentation by Madeleine Sugden, Content Manager at KnowHow NonProfit - www.knowhownonprofit.org
The presentation discusses various psychological concepts that are relevant to web design, including:
- Gestalt principles of visual perception like similarity, continuity, closure, and anomaly that influence how users organize visual elements on a page.
- Attractiveness bias, where more aesthetically pleasing designs draw more initial attention from users.
- Operant conditioning and priming, where websites can encourage repeat behaviors from users through positive and negative reinforcement of actions.
- Selective disregard, where users often miss or ignore elements on a page that do not match their expectations or task at hand, such as banner ads or non-standard forms.
The presentation emphasizes that understanding human psychology and perception can help designers create more intuitive
Networking is an essential tool for finding new jobs. More than 65% of job applicants use networking to find employment, rather than applying to advertised positions. Making connections and developing relationships can benefit both parties. Effective networking involves actively listening, asking open questions, and following up with contacts by sending a thank you message. Networking can happen anywhere and anytime through casual conversations. The key is to create a positive impression while learning about others.
The document provides tips and strategies for public relations, event planning, communications, and media relations. It discusses developing key messages and stories, understanding audiences, framing issues, responding to questions from reporters, and tips for effective interviews. The overall focus is on planning communications to achieve organizational goals and priorities through various media and dissemination strategies.
The Beginners Guide to Startup PR #startupprOnboardly
This document provides an overview of public relations strategies for startups. It discusses defining PR goals, researching target journalists, crafting effective pitches, and building relationships over time. The key lessons are to focus on developing genuine connections with journalists through engaging conversations rather than one-time pitches, and positioning your startup as solving a real problem for readers in order to attract media coverage.
Here is some of my DRAFT thinking about how an interactive agency can utilize a Discovery Engagement methodology to evolve its strategy practice and address the client challenges of integrated omni-channel marketing/communications.
This document summarizes two TED talks about communication. The first talk discusses how miscommunication occurs when people interpret messages through their own subjective lenses. It provides tips for active listening and understanding other perspectives. The second talk explains how digital communication adds emotional tone through elements like emojis and GIFs. It discusses how behavioral analytics can help organizations understand customers and personalize communication to serve the right emotions.
People engage in word of mouth conversations for different reasons depending on whether the conversation is occurring online or offline. Offline conversations in person are more emotional as people discuss what excites or disgusts them. Online conversations via social media are more functional and social as people seek to help others or express their uniqueness. The type of channel, whether continuous like a phone call or discontinuous like online comments, also influences what topics people discuss. In continuous channels with little time between responses, people discuss whatever comes to mind to keep the conversation flowing. In discontinuous online channels, people have time to selectively choose more interesting or thoughtful things to discuss.
Elena Ontiveros - Content Strategy for the Conversational InterfaceLavaConConference
In this session attendees will learn:
Strategies for balancing business goals with user experience
Best practices for developing the strategy and content for your conversations
Ways to adapt your voice and tone to this new communication channel
Tips for setting expectations with humans who think your bot can do everything
Approaches for those interactions that don’t go as planned
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Tips and tricks for how to work together when you are looking to find a novel solution to an existing problem, or a solution to a problem that others didn't even know existed.
This document provides advice on how to create effective PowerPoint presentations that communicate ideas through emotion rather than just presenting facts and bullet points. It argues that PowerPoint presentations often fail because they are used as teleprompters, written records of what was said, or verbatim transcripts for audiences rather than to transfer emotion. The document provides tips for creating engaging presentations with fewer words per slide, images to reinforce ideas, handing out details separately, and getting feedback. It emphasizes using slides to trigger emotional reactions and support the presenter's storytelling rather than just repeating what is said.
Public Speaking? Anytime!
As Daniel Pink put it, "We're all in sales now". From the 30-second elevator pitch to the 30-minute persuasive speech, we're always speaking in public, even in the not-for-profit world, giving (mini) presentations in front of diverse audiences of 1 or 1 million. Be prepared- with my 10 guiding questions- and shine! Follow the links for resources from some of the field's experts, and explore all the web has to offer, such as amazing public speaking/presentations examples in TED Talks! Hope you find this tool useful. Please do let me know about your learning and successes henceforth. Thanks in advance!
This is an abbreviated version of a presentation given as part of a Residency program for graduate education students earning their Superintendent's letter.
Jwi 505 business communications and executive presence weekniraj57
This document provides lecture notes on giving presentations that engage audiences. It discusses overcoming the fear of public speaking by focusing on teaching the audience rather than worrying about being judged. The key points are:
1) Presentations allow sharing ideas with large groups and demonstrating leadership.
2) It's important to know the audience, environment, and time available to effectively structure the presentation.
3) Visual aids should complement but not replace the speaker's message, using simple graphics, photos and limited text to reinforce and vary the presentation.
Communicating Insight - MRS Members Evening PresentationMRS
The document provides an overview of a workshop on communicating insight. The workshop aims to teach participants how to apply effective communication fundamentals to debriefs and deliverables, define and communicate insight with a confident point of view using a clear, concise, and compelling story, and consider how visual design impacts how a story is received and understood. The workshop covers topics like defining insight, distinguishing facts from insights, evaluating insights, using a "hook, line, and thinker" structure to tell a story with the insight, and visual storytelling techniques.
Evolution of a Fellow - And Introduction to the William J. Clinton Fellowship...aifoundation
Coco Vonnegut reflects on her experience as an AIF William J. Clinton Fellow placed at Khamir, an NGO in Kachchh, Gujarat, India. She describes the typical stages a fellow goes through, including an initial "honeymoon phase", followed by periods of failure, confusion, hard work, and ultimately success. Through challenges along the way, she learned valuable lessons about communication, adaptability, and using her skills and talents to make an impact. The fellowship transformed her both professionally and personally, fueling her passion for development work.
This document provides guidance on networking fundamentals and best practices. It recommends preparing in advance by developing introductions, initiating questions, value statements, and exit strategies. At events, it suggests proactively engaging others by asking open-ended questions, listening, and focusing on the other person. After events, one should follow up appropriately and continually seek out new networking opportunities to improve their skills. The document also provides sample questions and tips for remembering names to facilitate successful networking.
This document provides guidance on how to create engaging presentations that avoid being boring ("death by PowerPoint"). It recommends focusing on understanding the audience's needs and problems, crafting a narrative structure for the presentation with a clear beginning, middle and end, and using interactive formats to actively involve the audience such as polling, group activities, demonstrations and speed pitches. The goal is to help speakers connect with audiences and deliver their message in the most impactful way.
Job Hunting - How to boost your chances by building your networkMalcolm Hornby
The document provides advice on developing a long-term networking strategy to advance one's career. It discusses developing a "brand identity" through various networking opportunities and maintaining relationships over time. Specific tactics for job seekers are also outlined, such as identifying the top 15 people in one's network to initially contact for advice and referrals to expand one's network. The importance of following up and expressing appreciation is emphasized. Overall, the document encourages a strategic and proactive approach to networking to achieve career goals.
The document provides tips for creating effective PowerPoint presentations and reading decks. It distinguishes between presentation decks, which are used to complement an oral presentation, and reading decks, which are sent for others to read on their own. Key recommendations include keeping presentation decks concise with 4-5 key points, engaging graphics, and interactivity; and using consistent formatting and voice in all decks. The document emphasizes that decks should support clear communication goals rather than just organizing information.
Helping non profits make the most out of their websites. Presentation by Madeleine Sugden, Content Manager at KnowHow NonProfit - www.knowhownonprofit.org
The presentation discusses various psychological concepts that are relevant to web design, including:
- Gestalt principles of visual perception like similarity, continuity, closure, and anomaly that influence how users organize visual elements on a page.
- Attractiveness bias, where more aesthetically pleasing designs draw more initial attention from users.
- Operant conditioning and priming, where websites can encourage repeat behaviors from users through positive and negative reinforcement of actions.
- Selective disregard, where users often miss or ignore elements on a page that do not match their expectations or task at hand, such as banner ads or non-standard forms.
The presentation emphasizes that understanding human psychology and perception can help designers create more intuitive
Networking is an essential tool for finding new jobs. More than 65% of job applicants use networking to find employment, rather than applying to advertised positions. Making connections and developing relationships can benefit both parties. Effective networking involves actively listening, asking open questions, and following up with contacts by sending a thank you message. Networking can happen anywhere and anytime through casual conversations. The key is to create a positive impression while learning about others.
The document provides tips and strategies for public relations, event planning, communications, and media relations. It discusses developing key messages and stories, understanding audiences, framing issues, responding to questions from reporters, and tips for effective interviews. The overall focus is on planning communications to achieve organizational goals and priorities through various media and dissemination strategies.
The Beginners Guide to Startup PR #startupprOnboardly
This document provides an overview of public relations strategies for startups. It discusses defining PR goals, researching target journalists, crafting effective pitches, and building relationships over time. The key lessons are to focus on developing genuine connections with journalists through engaging conversations rather than one-time pitches, and positioning your startup as solving a real problem for readers in order to attract media coverage.
Here is some of my DRAFT thinking about how an interactive agency can utilize a Discovery Engagement methodology to evolve its strategy practice and address the client challenges of integrated omni-channel marketing/communications.
This document summarizes two TED talks about communication. The first talk discusses how miscommunication occurs when people interpret messages through their own subjective lenses. It provides tips for active listening and understanding other perspectives. The second talk explains how digital communication adds emotional tone through elements like emojis and GIFs. It discusses how behavioral analytics can help organizations understand customers and personalize communication to serve the right emotions.
People engage in word of mouth conversations for different reasons depending on whether the conversation is occurring online or offline. Offline conversations in person are more emotional as people discuss what excites or disgusts them. Online conversations via social media are more functional and social as people seek to help others or express their uniqueness. The type of channel, whether continuous like a phone call or discontinuous like online comments, also influences what topics people discuss. In continuous channels with little time between responses, people discuss whatever comes to mind to keep the conversation flowing. In discontinuous online channels, people have time to selectively choose more interesting or thoughtful things to discuss.
Elena Ontiveros - Content Strategy for the Conversational InterfaceLavaConConference
In this session attendees will learn:
Strategies for balancing business goals with user experience
Best practices for developing the strategy and content for your conversations
Ways to adapt your voice and tone to this new communication channel
Tips for setting expectations with humans who think your bot can do everything
Approaches for those interactions that don’t go as planned
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Tips and tricks for how to work together when you are looking to find a novel solution to an existing problem, or a solution to a problem that others didn't even know existed.
This document provides advice on how to create effective PowerPoint presentations that communicate ideas through emotion rather than just presenting facts and bullet points. It argues that PowerPoint presentations often fail because they are used as teleprompters, written records of what was said, or verbatim transcripts for audiences rather than to transfer emotion. The document provides tips for creating engaging presentations with fewer words per slide, images to reinforce ideas, handing out details separately, and getting feedback. It emphasizes using slides to trigger emotional reactions and support the presenter's storytelling rather than just repeating what is said.
Public Speaking? Anytime!
As Daniel Pink put it, "We're all in sales now". From the 30-second elevator pitch to the 30-minute persuasive speech, we're always speaking in public, even in the not-for-profit world, giving (mini) presentations in front of diverse audiences of 1 or 1 million. Be prepared- with my 10 guiding questions- and shine! Follow the links for resources from some of the field's experts, and explore all the web has to offer, such as amazing public speaking/presentations examples in TED Talks! Hope you find this tool useful. Please do let me know about your learning and successes henceforth. Thanks in advance!
This is an abbreviated version of a presentation given as part of a Residency program for graduate education students earning their Superintendent's letter.
Jwi 505 business communications and executive presence weekniraj57
This document provides lecture notes on giving presentations that engage audiences. It discusses overcoming the fear of public speaking by focusing on teaching the audience rather than worrying about being judged. The key points are:
1) Presentations allow sharing ideas with large groups and demonstrating leadership.
2) It's important to know the audience, environment, and time available to effectively structure the presentation.
3) Visual aids should complement but not replace the speaker's message, using simple graphics, photos and limited text to reinforce and vary the presentation.
A good presentation has interesting, audience-focused content organized simply with few bullet points. Visuals should be relevant to the content and animations should enhance the message. An effective presentation involves practicing to deliver the content clearly and engagingly with humor when appropriate. Key principles for design include contrast, repetition, alignment, and proximity to create a cohesive visual experience for the audience.
Maximizing your research impact through kick-ass presentationsEsther De Smet
This document provides tips for giving effective research presentations. It discusses the importance of developing strong presentation skills as researchers will often need to present their work. It emphasizes keeping presentations concise by focusing on the main message and avoiding overwhelming details. Some key tips include storyboarding the structure before making slides, using storytelling techniques to engage audiences, rehearsing to feel comfortable, and tailoring the presentation to the audience's background and interests. The goal is to clearly communicate the research in an accessible and engaging way.
Fresh Presentation Ideas That Will Leave Your Audience In Awe provides 13 presentation ideas to boost credibility and visibility. The ideas include drawing from real-life experiences, sharing failures to become more relatable, providing actionable steps for the audience, rehearsing without over-rehearsing to avoid sounding inauthentic, keeping slides simple with necessary facts and graphics to hold attention, and getting the audience interactive through tweets and accessible online versions. The document aims to help presenters engage audiences and connect through authentic and impactful presentations.
This document provides 10 social media marketing strategies that can help increase traffic and engagement. These include engaging with others on social media, creating video content, going live, networking in person, collaborating with smaller influencers first before moving to larger ones, becoming active in online communities, writing a book, obtaining qualifications, seeking media coverage of noteworthy activities, and appealing to your target audience through an inspiring vision.
How to survive the digital world in 2015 by @matteocMatteo Cassese
The document provides 10 tips for surviving and thriving in the digital world in 2015 from entrepreneur Matteo. The tips include having a clear plan, creating content optimized for mobile devices first, producing content that demands attention and transforms audiences, only sharing content publicly that one is comfortable with others seeing, taking occasional breaks from digital technologies to spend time offline with loved ones, limiting consumption of polluting media content, sharing more profound things that will enrich others' lives, freeing one's mind from worries by delegating tasks to trusted systems and people, improving presentation skills, and being careful how one interprets and sees the world.
Handout for "Proven Presentation Techniques", an InfoComm approved workshop b...Thomas Zangerle
This workshop will show you how you can transform your ideas into convincing interactive presentations. The most important elements of successful presentations, training sessions and meetings are straightforward to name, but not always quite so easy to implement. It's essential for the presenter to capture and maintain the attention of the audience, to present effectively, create interest, encourage excitement and to captivate the participants. In this training session we will explore how you can increase understanding and retention in a presentation. You will receive background information based on scientific research, about improving communication techniques and about the workings of the brain. You will also see examples of best practices, effective communication, and presentation designs, all of which contribute to the creation of long-lasting impressions.
How to maximise the impact of your research through kick-ass presentationsEsther De Smet
This document provides tips and advice for giving effective presentations as a researcher. It discusses 10 tips to improve presentations, including focusing on your expertise, storyboarding your talk structure, using storytelling techniques, starting and ending strongly, managing slide content and design, engaging the audience, rehearsing, and timing your presentation. The document aims to help researchers develop and maintain strong presentation skills through workshops and applying best practices for communication and impact.
Prepare thoroughly by practicing your presentation until it becomes second nature. Arrive early to set up and get comfortable with your environment. Smile to appear confident and use pauses, varied vocal tones, and humor to engage your audience. Divide your presentation into ten-minute segments and actively involve the audience to maintain interest. Provide a clear bottom line and memorable takeaways for your listeners.
Before making a presentation to school leadership about introducing amateur radio, it is important to:
1) Clearly define your specific goal and what you are willing to do to achieve it.
2) Consider who the best presenter would be based on their experience, public speaking skills, and knowledge of the local school system.
3) Prepare thoroughly by practicing your presentation, anticipating objections, and familiarizing yourself with relevant training materials.
One of the greatest fears we all have, is the fear of speaking in public. Some research I read a few years back showed that people feared public speaking even more than they feared death. Wow, that is quite an incredible result. It is crazy to think that someone, would rather die, than stand in front of a group of people and deliver a speech.
This unnecessary fear is an instinctive primeval response, to our inbred fear of standing out from the herd. When we lived in a society, where there was a threat from predators. Anyone, who stood out from the crowd, was at the highest risk of being predated. So yes that fear you feel, when you are expected to deliver a speech in front of a group of people is real. It is primeval deep rooted fear of standing out. My question here is pretty simple. When last did you hear about a sabre toothed tiger eating someone, whilst they were speaking in public?
How to Deliver a Great Presentation
10 tips aganist stagefright, how to prepare a presentation and how to deliver.
Also see youtube "Ever presentation ever: FAIL"
Dirk Hannemann, Berlin
Trainer Kommunikation
www.hannemann-training.de
Handout for "Getting the message across" a presentation by Thomas Zangerle/Wo...Thomas Zangerle
This document provides tips for creating effective presentations. It discusses focusing on significance for the audience, structuring the presentation simply with 3-4 key points, and avoiding overloading slides with text. The document emphasizes using visuals like images and charts to aid recall. It also stresses rehearsing and practicing the presentation to feel confident presenting and engaging the audience with stories and interaction.
This document discusses developing an online presence as an individual rather than just through marketing or communications teams. It uses balloon metaphors to evaluate the quality of one's online presence and training. Having 75% of your online presence run by others leaves you with only a quarter of a balloon. Developing your own content and engaging in two-way conversations online gives you a full balloon and the ability to develop meaningful relationships. The best returns on developing an online presence come from meaningful conversations rather than just analytics reports. Developing personal experience with social media will lead to better decisions than leaving it solely to marketing teams.
Presented by Lea Synefakis-Pica for Analytics That Excite 2014
Even the most seasoned analyst can make very simple changes to a presentations to make a big impact. If everyone in your audience is catching up on email or sleep, chances are your presentation design and/or data charts are obscuring your valuable insights and hurting you rather than helping you. Lea can help you inspire action and build credibility with a fresh new toolbox of tips and techniques to set your presentations apart and get the results you’re looking for.
Temptation Foods Limited is an Indian frozen food company. In the past year, the company saw total income and EBIDTA growth. It operates plants in multiple Indian cities and has a portfolio of frozen vegetables, fruits, marine products, and recipe foods. Going forward, the company aims to expand its business and capture opportunities in the growing market for frozen and processed foods in India.
Social media communication uncovering design intricaciesANSHUL GUPTA
Delphique is one of the flagship events that MDI organizes on a yearly basis. This presentation was presented by the communications research panel 2010 during the event this year (20-21 November 2010). Research involved understanding the critical factors for understanding the behaviour of the social media user on social media.
Identifying Core-Competencies of a Corporation: Learning from ToyotaANSHUL GUPTA
This document discusses identifying and developing core competencies of corporations by learning from Toyota's strategies. It begins with defining the criteria for something to be considered a core competency. It then explains five strategies adopted by Toyota to become a leading carmaker: continuous improvement (Kaizen), Just-In-Time production, suggestion systems, Kanban pull system, and customer focus. The document discusses how companies like Tata Motors and Titan have implemented some of these strategies. It provides a framework for developing core competencies and applies this to the Management Development Institute to identify areas of focus. The document concludes by emphasizing the importance of defining the right core competencies based on evidence rather than intuition.
Analyzing Strategy Execution at BOP: Drishtee’scaseANSHUL GUPTA
Drishtee is a social enterprise focused on serving rural India through a network of over 14,000 rural kiosks run by local entrepreneurs. Drishtee's strategy is to first create sustainable rural supply chain routes connecting villages, then leverage these routes to provide critical services in areas like healthcare, education, and financial inclusion. Drishtee implements this strategy by appointing and training local entrepreneurs to run kiosks, focusing on demand-driven operations and local customs, and keeping costs low to serve large volumes of customers with affordable services.
Analyzing Strategy Execution at BOP: Drishtee’scaseANSHUL GUPTA
Drishtee is a network of over 14,000 rural enterprises that delivers services through ICT kiosks owned and operated by local entrepreneurs. The kiosks provide e-governance, education, health, insurance, and other local services. Drishtee aims to eliminate the middleman and empower marginal communities by creating rural jobs and entrepreneurs. Services are offered on a demand-driven, low-cost basis to serve rural populations across India.
Analyzing Strategy Execution at BOP: Drishtee’scaseANSHUL GUPTA
Drishtee is a rural enterprise that operates ICT kiosks across India to provide services like e-governance, education, and healthcare. It trains local entrepreneurs to own and operate the kiosks, creating rural jobs. The kiosks are profitable by charging small fees for services, keeping costs low. By eliminating middlemen and empowering local owners, Drishtee is able to successfully deliver affordable services to rural communities at scale.
Analyzing Strategy Execution at BOP: Drishtee’scase
Boring to Bravo
1. Info 1/16
15½ Ideasto Make Your
Presentation Go From
Boring to Bravo
Kristin Arnold
ChangeThis
No 74.04
2. Info 2/16
No one wants to be boring.And no one wants to listen to a boring
presentation. Yet boring speeches happen all the time. With over 17 million meetings held on
a daily basis in corporate America, some kind of speech is given to kick off every single meeting,
and then there are usually one or more presentations on the agenda. Conservatively, that’s over
a billion presentations a month!
While it will always be easier to recite information (one-way) than it is to make an engaging speech
(two-way) that connects with your audience, today’s audiences are demanding more engagement
and interaction. Their lives are full of instant updates and streaming news sent straight to their
cell phones. They are expecting you to bring specific knowledge they can’t get anywhere else and
deliver it in an entertaining way.
Unfortunately, most people rely on a few tried (yet true) techniques to engage an audience and
rarely stumble outside their comfort zone. If you truly want to connect with your audience, you can
choose to make your presentations more engaging and interactive.
In the ChangeThis Manifesto, I share 15½ of the simplest techniques to take your presentations
from boring to bravo—so engaging that your audience will be inspired to take action.
1. It’s Not About You.
Even though there are a bazillion meetings in North America, we have all been in the exact same
kind of meeting: The presenter is sharing boatloads of information about the topic—far too much for
you to care about, no less understand. Your eyelids begin to droop and sleepy time is close at hand.
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Rather than spew forth everything you know about your topic, do a different kind of research. Find
out who will be in the audience. Try to understand their hopes, fears, interests and, most importantly,
why they will even bother to come to your presentation. Then tailor your speech to connect your
comments with what they care about. Not the ones you think they should care about. This is a subtle
distinction with dramatic implications. If you do not address something that helps make their lives
better or will improve the lives of people they care about, you will be boring. Guaranteed.
2. Engage Early.
Your presentation starts the moment the meeting is announced, with your name on the agenda.
Pick up the phone and interview a few participants, email a simple survey, open discussion in
a blog post, post a question to a group on LinkedIn or Facebook, start a unique wiki about your
presentation, etc. There are a ton of technologies out there to enable you to start the conversation
before your presentation even begins. And, the side benefit is that you are doing research on
the audience (see #1)!
Here’s what I mean by engaging early. When Don Tapscott, author of the bestseller Wikinomics, was
the keynote speaker at Meeting Professionals International (MPI), he reached out to the MPI regis-
trants. According to CEO Bruce MacMillan, “he blogged with them, invited questions before the event,
and built them right into his presentation. In essence, he built the presentation around the interests
of his audience even before they got there. The audience felt like they were personally involved.
They felt like they could see their fingerprints all over the content he delivered. And so they got more
out of it. … It was personal, and the people who were in the audience felt that they had collaborated
and created something remarkable.”
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3. Be Relevant.
A world-renowned organizational anthropologist was giving an interesting presentation I was attend-
ing when, with one slide, she lost all credibility. She displayed a visual of a whale leaping up out
of the water to eat from a human hand, and used it as a real-life example to make a point. Most of
us knew this slide was urban legend material lifted off the Internet and was, in fact, not true.
Although I quietly sat there, I couldn’t accept another word she said. What else was she showing
us that was not true? Several people got up and left.
Today’s audiences are exceptionally savvy. They are expecting up-to-date, cutting edge information
they can’t get elsewhere. They are expecting more than a regurgitated book report or sensational-
ized statistics. They can get that on the Internet. If they can read it elsewhere or download the same
information, why should they make an effort to come listen to you?
If you do not address something that helps
make their lives better or will improve the lives
of people they care about, you will be boring.
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4. You Are the Number One Visual
In the early days of staged performances when there was no electricity, the light on the performer
was cast by burning chalky lime in pots at the front of the stage. When performing downstage
close to the pots, you were considered to be in the “limelight.”
While we have electricity these days to power the lights, sound systems and multimedia projectors,
never forget that the audience is coming to hear you. YOU are the number one visual in any
presentation. While you are in the limelight, your connection to the audience, your energy, and
your message are more important than any other visuals you may use.
4.5. Get Out From Behind the Lectern
Most presenters stand behind a lectern if it is in the room. Don’t do it! Although a handy place
to put your notes, the lectern creates a physical barrier between you and your audience. Stand to
the side of it, or put your talking points on one sheet of paper.
You can’t connect with your audience if you are standing behind a lectern, table, chair, or other
physical obstacle between you and your audience. I recently witnessed a corporate Vice President
pull a chair in front of him, creating a subliminal barricade between him and the audience.
Awkward, as he was professing he wanted the group’s input! Did he get their comments and
suggestions? No, he did not. Not until he sat down, and then it took a while to jump-start
the group into a meaningful conversation.
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5. Use PowerPoint With a Purpose
PowerPoint slides are an effective tool to complement your speech. Your slides should visually
punctuate one of your points, tell a story, or create a mental link for the participant to grasp
a concept. If it doesn’t serve your audience, here’s a simple idea: Blank the screen either by inserting
a black slide or hitting the button on your remote. All eyes should be on you (see #4), not on a
slide that is no longer pertinent.
Never turn your back on the audience to speak to your slides; it breaks the fragile connection you
have with the audience. Your slideshow is not a crutch for you to remember which point you are
on either. If you must, look to see what the next slide is, then turn to the audience and talk about
the slide. Don’t summarize the slide (boring!); don’t read us the slide (even more boring!). Talk
about what the slide means to the audience. You’ll have a conversation going in no time!
6. Is it a Slide or is it a Slideument?
Many presenters cram their slides with detailed information – not so much for the presentation,
but for the “what if” factor. “What if” the audience wants more information? “What if” a detailed
question comes up? “What if” they need to access that information later?
For some bizarre reason, this detailed information worms its way into your slide presentation,
becoming a “slideument” – a combination of slides with supporting documentation.
(Note: Big thanks to Garr Reynolds of Presentation Zen fame for coining this new word).
YOU are the number one visual in any presentation.
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While it is easy enough to print the “handout” option on PowerPoint, I don’t recommend you print
the slides out verbatim as your handout or takeaway. Keep the two objectives distinctly separate:
Your handout or takeaway should contain all the detailed information enquiring minds want to know.
Your slideshow, on the other hand, is the visual representation for your presentation.
They can come from the same file but “hide” different pages depending on whether you are printing
your handout or displaying your presentation.
7. Know Your Speech.
A CEO recently gave a presentation to a group of CFOs about the critical skills every CFO needs
to have. The information was impressive: data collected from over 75 CEOs about what’s
important to the audience’s success. The CEO prefaced his comments by saying, “I want this to
be a conversation.”
In his head, he was thinking “conversation.” In his heart, he was thinking, “I don’t want to loose
control.” He then proceeded to share slide after slide without creating any space for interaction.
He could have asked an intriguing question and then suffered the silence until he received a reply.
He could have animated the slide to show the question first and let the group speculate on the
answers. He could have taken a poll of the group and compared the CFO answers to the CEO answers.
He could have... but didn’t. The result? It was boring. Great information, but duller than dirt.
This CEO simply didn’t want to lose control. And it’s not like he’s a control freak either.
He just didn’t think through how he was going to talk about his topic. Sure, he had interesting
slides, but you need more than interesting slides to engage and involve the audience.
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You need to know your speech with and without your slides. This seems pretty obvious but I
continue to be amazed at how many people just “wing it.”
Yes, you should have an outline with your key points, memorable phrases and stories, key actions
to make the speech amazing in the eyes of the audience, and a call to action at the end.
Yes, you should practice your speech until you are sufficiently comfortable with the opening,
the closing, the stories, and the actions you will take to involve the audience.
No, I am NOT talking about rote memorization. Although there is a time and place for you to
memorize your speech, most presentations in the workplace do not need to be memorized.
However, in order to pull this off, you need to prepare. Be as much of an expert on the topic as
you can possibly be. Immerse yourself in the content. Be relevant (see #2). Think through how
you are going to encourage participation. Be fluent so you can bend like a willow when the audience
does interact with you or when the unexpected happens, which according to my good friend
Murphy, it will.
8. Have a Mini-Conversation.
Whether you are speaking to a few people or to a packed auditorium, present your information in
a conversational style rather than a stilted “this is how presenters present” style. Most of us are
pretty engaging when we speak one-on-one or to a small group of close friends. So why not take
that comfortable, casual style with you onto the stage or to the front of the room? Your local
television news anchors and reporters have a more conversational tone and so can you.
As you begin your talk, think mini-conversations rather than a stand-and-deliver speech. Look at
a friendly face in the audience and stay with that person for a sentence or two or until you
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complete a thought. Allow yourself enough time to connect with that person—typically three to five
seconds. Then move to someone else in the room, distributing your mini-conversations smoothly
and deliberately throughout the room, without being too predictable as to where you will go next!
Remember to reach into the rafters, the cheap seats, and the fringes of the audience—when you
pull them into the conversation, it pulls in everyone in between!
9. Ask Engaging Questions
One of the most powerful ways you can connect with your audience and begin a conversation is
by asking an engaging question—and then be silent. Wait for the answer. If you suffer the silence
for one or two seconds and look like you are expecting a response, someone will answer you!
Many speakers get nervous and answer their own question (otherwise known as a “rhetorical”
question), which severely limits interaction. They might ask a series of rhetorical questions
where they don’t get, and weren’t expecting, a response. Then, when they poll the audience
(a show of hands, please), they wonder why people don’t raise their hands!
Most audiences get confused. Do you want an answer or not? If you want an answer, pause and
listen for the answer. If you are going to poll the audience, ask the question and model the behavior
you are looking for. For example, “Who here…” and while you are asking the question, raise your
hand high in the air. This sends a clear signal that you are expecting those people who will say
“yes” to raise their hand with you. Moreover, you are the one person in the room who can see all the
results and enquiring minds want to know. Share the results in the form of a statistic: “That looks
like thirty folks, so that’s 10 percent of the group.” Or, if you want to make it a tad bit funny, be more
precise, even though it is obviously a best guesstimate: “27 folks agree, and that is 13.3 percent
of the group.”
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10. Tell the Story
Once upon a time, I was facilitating a strategic planning session sponsored by two senior executives.
Each of the two executives opened the session in two distinct ways: Executive #1 went to the
front of the room and thanked the participants for coming. He said he was excited about the work
we were going to do. Ho hum. Nice, but boring. Executive #2 went to the front of the room and
started with a story about driving his car… to work? To their biggest client’s office? To the beach?
To Disneyland? He immediately engaged the participants by creating an analogy between his drive
and the group’s strategic planning efforts. The audience was much more interested in his remarks.
They were different, they were personal, and they could see themselves driving to Disneyland!
Since the dawn of man, we have gathered around the fire, rapturously listening to stories that define
what is important to the clan. Today’s audiences are not too different from our ancestors. When
listeners hear a well-told story, they take a journey with you, correlating their own experiences with
yours. Your story becomes their story or it reminds them of a similar story from their own lives.
This is called a “Me Too Moment.” Your stories help you build a connection to your audience.
It could be a story about yourself or someone you know. If you don’t have enough stories of your
own, you can certainly “borrow” a story as long as you cite the source and ask their permission
if at all possible. Please, do NOT brag about your accomplishments, lift a story off the Internet,
or repackage a borrowed story to sound like it happened to you.
But here’s the weird part: After one of your presentations, a participant will share her “Me Too
Moment,” which is a vastly different story from your own and with a different meaning altogether!
I used to think these people just didn’t get the point until I realized that they got the point they
needed to get. And that’s what so great about stories: each audience member can derive their own
unique takeaway from the exact same story! Your audience may not remember exactly what you
said during your presentation but they will remember your stories.
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11. Embrace Technology
Newsflash: You no longer have to stand in the dark. Any multimedia projector packing at least
2500 lumens has enough candlepower to project a visible image in a brightly lit room. You should
know this by now, but oddly, many people still stand in the dark while the PowerPoint plays on.
If your eyes glazed over at the mention of lumens, then hold on to your seat because the Luddite
in you isn’t going to like this: You should know the capabilities of every type of technology in the
room. At the very least, you should know how to turn the projector on/off, sync up your computer,
and advance your slides using a remote control.
For example, if 90% of your audience has cell phones (common enough these days), then let the
audience know how they can use their cell phones to respond to a poll or feed questions to you.
If you are brave, project the feed onto a screen behind you (this is called a “twitterfall.” Ain’t that
cute?) so all can participate in the “back channel” discussion—the conversation going on in the
room while you are speaking.
Can’t make it to the meeting due to a volcanic dust cloud covering European airspace? Skype it in,
but only if you are extremely comfortable using the technology.
Warning: Kristin’s personal technology pet peeve: Use a Microphone.
If you are presenting to more than 100 people, do us all a favor and use an arcane technology
called a microphone. Lavaliere or handheld? No one really cares. Use a microphone. Even if
you think you have a loud, booming voice. Use a microphone. It is not about your voice, it is about
the audience’s ability to hear you. So put away your pride and speak into a microphone.
Better yet, learn a little something about microphones. How to turn them on. How to turn them
off before you go to the restroom. How your mouth needs to be relatively close to the microphone
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to be heard. And how to fish the little wire down your shirt so it doesn’t distract the audience by
flopping all around.
While I’m on my micro-rant, please be nice to the A/V people. Okay, be nice to ALL people, but
especially the A/V people. Find out their first name and use it. Say thank you every once in a while.
Do your sound check with them. Wander around the room while you do a sound check. Note the
“hot spots” (too much feedback) with masking tape on the floor – and don’t walk into the hot spots!
Then make sure the A/V person takes a piece of masking tape and notes your sound level on the
mixer board and then writes your name next to it. If there are multiple people on the program, you
will sound perfect!
Of course, don’t use any kind of technology just for the “cool factor.” Make it purposeful, and do
lots and lots of practice runs before you do it for “real.” Murphy’s law still rules: Whatever can go
wrong will go wrong, especially during your presentation!
12. Involve the Audience
Bob Pike, a renowned champion of participant-centered training is often quoted as saying, “Never
do for the audience what they can do for themselves.” As you review your presentation, ask yourself
whether you are doing something that an audience member can do just as easily.
When you ask an audience member to do something for you, she feels special. She morphs into
a participant while sending a subliminal signal to the rest of the audience that you are reaching
out for help, and they might be more willing to cooperate when you ask them to do something later.
It can be something as simple as asking for help in setting up the room, being a timekeeper or
recorder, or a “runner.”
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Those are the easy things you can do. Demonstrations, skits, competitions, and role-plays are more
complex interactions that take more thought and deliberate consideration but have HUGE payoff
because they are HUGELY memorable.
One of my most impressive interactions is a team-based psychological experiment I first read
about in Harvard Management Update. I wanted to talk about it but thought it would be much
more powerful as a demonstration. So I obtained the original study and developed a scenario
with four participants to show the effects of freeloading on a team. I then practiced SEVERAL times
with friends, family, and relative strangers off the street. Wildly popular. Wildly memorable. I
didn’t just dream it up during the middle of the presentation. These things take a bit of forethought.
And patience. And are well worth the investment of time.
13. Facilitate Rather Than Present.
A colleague of mine was asked to give a presentation. As he was doing his research (see #1), he
discovered that the client wanted more than information delivered as a presentation; the client
wanted the participants to identify the issues, wrestle them to the ground, and figure out how to
apply the outcomes to their organization.
As you involve the audience even more, you may find your role transitioning from presenting
information to facilitating discussions among the participants. What’s the difference? The facilitator
focuses on the process of the session (the how) rather than the content (what the topic is).
A facilitator fundamentally believes that the knowledge is resident in the room rather than in the
mind of the speaker on the stage. A process facilitator literally makes things easier for the audience
by enabling them to fully participate and collaborate. In its highest form, facilitation expects
the participants to drive the agenda and the facilitator to guide them to achieve their objective.
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14. Ask for the Order.
The end of your presentation is the crucial point where the cup meets the lip. You present a great
speech, but if you haven’t shifted the audience’s perspective, increased their knowledge, or inspired
them to do something differently, your words are for naught.
Your audience will not take action unless you ask them to. Don’t assume they know what they should
do as a result of your brilliantly crafted presentation. Salespeople are always encouraged to “ask
for the order.” You should make a similar request of your audience. What do you want them to do?
Suggest a relatively easy action they could do when they get back to the office that day or the day
after your presentation. Or be bold and make a more challenging request.
Presentation coach Nick Morgan says the only reason to give a speech is to change the world.
And why not? Expect to change the world with your words! By making your presentation
more engaging and interactive, you will connect with your audience so they can be inspired to
action. And isn’t that the point?
Your audience may not remember exactly
what you said during your presentation but
they will remember your stories.
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15. Be Deliberate.
So here’s my request of you, dear readers. When you prepare your presentation, keep in mind:
1. Your presentation is about them, not about you.
2. Engage early, even before your presentation begins.
3. Be relevant and unique; more than what they can find on the Internet.
4. Remove any physical barriers between you and the audience.
5. Use PowerPoint to complement your presentation, not supplant it.
6. Create a handout or takeaway with all the detail enquiring minds want to know,
which is different from your slideshow.
7. Know your speech, inside and out, so you can go with the conversational flow
and deal with any obstacles.
8. Have a mini-conversation with the audience using your eyes.
9. Have a real conversation with the audience starting with engaging questions.
10. Tell a “Me Too” story.
11. Embrace the technology in the room but only if it enhances the participants’ experience.
12. Involve the audience by letting them do as much for themselves as they can.
13. When appropriate, facilitate the conversation.
14. Ask for the order with a compelling call to action.
15. Deliberately think through how you are going to engage, involve, and inspire
your audience to action.
All this happens because you aren’t winging it. When you prepare to be engaging
and interactive, you are engaging and interactive.
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About the Author
As high stakes meeting facilitator and current President of the U.S. National Speakers Association,
Kristin Arnold is on a crusade to make all presentations in the workplace more engaging, interactive,
and collaborative.
Her book Boring to Bravo, has over 75 more tips and techniques to help make your presentations
go from Boring to Bravo in no time!
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