How to Rock Your Next Presentation and Demo Webinar
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As a member of the Trailblazer Community, we know you have lots to share with your Ohana. Whether you're thinking about speaking at the next community group meeting, community conference or even Dreamforce, join our session to learn best practices for developing an awesome presentation and demo that keeps your audience engaged, focused, and inspired.
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How to Rock Your Next Presentation and Demo Webinar
- 1. How to Rock Your Next Presentation and Demo
- 2. LeeAnne Rimel Principal Admin Evangelist Salesforce @Leeanndroid Rebecca Saar Director, Admin Marketing Salesforce @RebeccaSaar Today’s Speakers
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- 5. Effective Slides Focused Demo The Right Framework Successful Presentations Rock to This Beat
- 6. Successful Presentations Rock to This Beat The Right Framework Effective Slides Focused Demo
- 7. Build Your Framework 1. Know Your Audience • End users, admins, developers, executives 2. Frame Your Presentation • Find the right place to start • Consider level of knowledge 3. Find Your Focus • What’s the one thing you want your audience to walk away knowing?
- 8. Include Key Story Attributes Strong title Key thesis Logical flow of ideas Memorable supporting details Conclusion or call to action Main character
- 9. Our Presentations Contain these Attributes Title Main character Supporting details Thesis Logical flow of ideas in slide titles
- 10. Pain-Solution Framework Overview Leverage Common Story Frameworks Situation 90% of the world’s data has been created in the last 12 months Complication Less than 1% of that data has been analyzed Question How do we close this data divide? Answer Introducing Einstein Analytics. Analytics for everyone. Proof points Redwood Insurance empowers 15,000 reps with data at their fingertips Call to action Take the Trailhead Trail to learn more.
- 11. Outline Framework Overview Example: Levers of Success Diagram Graphic 1. Build 2. Market 3. Sell 4. Service Build Market Sell Service Build Market Sell Service Text
- 12. Successful Presentations Rock to This Beat The Right Framework Effective Slides Focused Demo
- 13. Consider The Medium & Setting Are you presenting on someone else’s computer? Are you presenting on a large screen? With focus on visuals? Are you presenting in a webinar? Are you presenting internally and need to collaborate, update in real-time? Google or Quip Slides may be best Keynote is amazing Reduce animation & reliance on visuals Google Slides or Quip Slides will allow easy quick edits
- 14. Translate Your Story Into Slide Titles String together a story via slide titles Make them active, not passive Use Title Case titlecaseconverter.com
- 15. Use Blue Boxing to Ensure Visuals Match Your Point
- 16. Get Real Detail Oriented Use Paint Brush! Crop To Shape Adjust Within Mask same font same size same color Top Align Equally Distribute Text Align TEXT IMAGES ALIGNMENT
- 17. Sunshine Chocolates Operations this year Sunshine Choclates has had an interesting year. We have a lot to celebrate about. Gummy Bear sales are up and that’s great. But we have more ahead. We need to bring Jelly Bean sales back up. Slides are often hard to read and people stop paying attention half way through, or worse they stop listening to you. Key data shows promising trends: 20% growth in candy sales Jelly Beans sales have increased the most. Gummy Bears sales needs work
- 18. Sunshine Chocolates Increases Sales in FY20 FY20 Key data trends: 20% growth in candy sales Jelly Beans sales have increased the most FY21 Focus Increase Gummy Bears sales
- 19. Check Before You Present ❏ Fix titles (title case) ❏ Evaluate subtitles ❏ Unify text treatment (fonts, font sizes, font color) ❏ Align shapes, objects and text boxes ❏ Resize and crop photos
- 20. Successful Presentations Rock to This Beat The Right Framework Focused Demo Effective Slides
- 21. Follow the Demo Formula
- 22. Deliver Your Demo Seamlessly Engage Audience Set expectations Confirm understanding Be the tour guide Execute Your Plan Slow down Pause and reflect Mouse carefully Expect the Unexpected Screenshots/Videos Backup orgs Talk through it
- 23. Implement Key Best Practices Don’t demo in production! Hide sensitive data Preload everything you can: ● Bookmark links ● Login ● File paths ● Bookmarks Pro Tip: Use Keyboard Maestro
- 24. Check Before You Demo ❏ Restart your computer ❏ Turn off notifications & turn on do not disturb ❏ Quit all non-essential apps ❏ Clean your desktop ❏ Set up Browser (Chrome People, Bookmarks Bar)
- 25. Effective Slides Focused Demo The Right Framework Successful Presentations Rock to This Beat
- 26. Practice Makes Perfect ! Tweet using: #RockMyPreso Share with us when and where you will put these best practices into action! Follow the Trailmix: bit.ly/RockMyPresoTrailmix
- 28. Thank you
- 29. Know Your Audience End users Executives / Stakeholders Developers Admins
- 30. Find the right place to start Consider level of knowledge Reduce jargon Frame Your Presentation
- 31. Find Your focus What’s the one thing you want your audience to walk away knowing?
- 32. Leverage Common Story Frameworks Framework Good For Pain-Solution Customer pitch, first call deck New Idea New technology or idea Best Alternative Internal or external business decision Springboard Story Call to action is open ended Outline Conveying complex information Hero’s Journey Invoke emotion and action
- 33. Hero’s Journey Call to Adventure Excited by an opportunity Superpower Discover a new skill Challenges Put skills to the test Abyss Failure, forced to reevaluate strategy Transformation Change or Tweak strategy Return to Adventure Inspired to try again
- 34. Build Your Slide To Support The Story Focus on 1 point with minimal supporting points per slide Leverage Templates Leave plenty of empty space Use visuals to convey meaning when possible
- 35. Put It All Together
- 36. 1. Created An Outline & 2. Turned It Into a Showflow Intro 1 - story & structure frameworks/story telling It’s your turn: discussion question? worksheet 2 - deck (best practices) Bad slide, good slide (give em a bad slide) Blue boxing Templates Shortcuts (blackbelt tips) (supporting content: blog with tips) 3 - demo (best practices) Bad demo, good demo (supporting content: google chrome vid) Outro Time Activity/Topic Slides Speaker 45:00 Intro (2) 3-4 Rebecca 43:00 The Right Framework (10) 5-14 Rebecca 31:00 Slide Best Practices (15 min) 15-22 Rebecca Slide Live Edits Rebecca 18:00 Demo Best Practices (15 min) 23-29 Gillian Actual Demo Gillian 4:00 Example (2) 30-31 Gillian 2:00 Close & QA (1) 32-33 Gillian
- 37. 4. Built Slides & Created Demo Click Path 5. Reviewed, Incorporated Feedback and Practiced!!
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