This document provides tips for delivering better presentations, emphasizing the importance of knowing your audience, crafting a compelling narrative, and practicing effectively. It outlines a typical presentation structure and stresses that presentations should be engaging rather than merely informational. Personal investment and preparation are highlighted as keys to successful delivery.

1. Tips For A Better Presentation
Version 2.0 | July 20 2016

2. Why Are You
Here Today?

3. The Experts Say….
Know your audience
Begin with the end in mind
Tell a story
Less is more
Don’t read
Slow down
Practice, practice, practice
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4. A Typical Structure
SOAPBOX
Subject: Topic
Occasion: When & where are you presenting?
Audience: Who are you presenting to?
Purpose: What are your goals?
Before: What legwork do you need to do?
Object Handling: What are the key objections?
Execute: How do you deliver something
compelling?
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5. A Good
Resource

6. Why Am I Talking To You?
I present several times every week.
I was shit when I started.
I found my own way.
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7. Adrienne’s Learnings
A presentation is not a document or a
report.
Powerpoint should not be your first
stop.
People lose interest if you don’t
invest in yourself personally.

8. Before the presentation:
Work out my angle
I plan in my head
Write out presentation
Find ‘the’ story
Quick review
A trigger for each slide
During the presentation:
Stand when presenting
Make eye contact
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What’s My Style?

9. What’s Your
Style?

10. Looking
Forward To
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