The document contains tips and guidelines for creating effective PowerPoint presentations and public speaking. Some of the key points include using visual aids to reinforce spoken points, limiting the amount of text and using large fonts on slides, focusing on the presenter rather than the PowerPoint software itself, and maintaining eye contact and rapport with the audience. The document emphasizes keeping presentations concise and focused on the main messages.

1. Give them your best
every time!
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2.  Ask
questions
 Take
 Make
 Cell
notes
friends
phones off
 Participate!

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5. Bombarded
Buying
Risk
with choices
habits
aversion
Status
quo
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6. “Too
many choices, all of which can be
fulfilled instantly and indulged
immediately, keeps children – and
adults – infantile. From a marketing
perspective, people stop caring, get
fatigued and lose their decision-making
capabilities.”
 Carol
In
Moog, PhD, Consumer Psychologist
other words…
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11. Why putting too much information on one slide, along with way too much text,
especially text in relatively small letters – ‘cause everyone knows you can’t
see small text from the back of the room – can undermine any PowerPoint
presentation. In any case, they shouldn’t even be called PowerPoint
presentations because it’s not the PowerPoint that’s doing the presentation,
it’s the presenter who’s doing the presentation. People tend to forget that,
don’t they? I mean the slides are supposed to be visual aids that support the
story you’re telling, not the entire story. Seems obvious but sadly too many
people simply screw it up when it comes to putting together PowerPoint
presentations. Like the people who use complete sentences in every bullet
point, and then proceed to read you each an every line in the presentation –
like you couldn’t read the darn thing yourself! And what about the
chuckleheads who overdo the animation, with crap flying in from every
which way with spins, fly arounds and all kinds of annoying stock sound
affects. You can always tell when the PowerPoint designer is bored because
animations come with cash register sounds, buzzes, laser beams, etc. It can
really get distracting. Don’t you just hate it when a Powerpoint has all that
stuff? A presentation needs to be about the presenter and information, not
the PowerPoint. In fact, if you think about it, PowerPoint really kinda just su
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14. 
What makes a “good”
presentation?

What are the
“rules” of good
“powerpointing?”

Some common
mistakes…
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19. 
Slides are visual aids

Reinforce your words!

Emotional proof of
what you’re saying

Why are you making
this presentation?
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20.  To
educate?
 To
affect industrywide growth and
change?
 To
sell stuff?
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21.  Fear,
resist change
 “Worked
ok
so far”
 Admit
they
were wrong?
 What
if it
doesn’t work?
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22.  Get
them to make
a NEW decision…
 Based
on
NEW information
 Need
the “right”
message
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23.  Needs


analysis
Who, what, when
where, why
Info dump
 Define
problems,
solutions
 Define desired
outcome
 Define success
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24. 
No more than:

7 words per line

7 lines per slide

Preferably fewer
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25. BIG
Freakin’
Fonts!!!
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26. 
Stock Microsoft clipart

Too many spins,
fancy dissolves

Stock Microsoft SFX
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29. 
Visual, not verbal

BIG FONTS!

Rule of “7”

Too cluttered?
BIG!!
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30. Get the room set to
start the program off
on the right foot.
And yes, it matters!
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31.  Neat,
consistent set up
 Literature
in
folder/binder
 Pad/workbook/
pen/name tag
 Table
 Do
for samples – set up
Anthony
Reikow
it EARLY!!!!!
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33.  Check
 Meet
 And
electronics
‘n greet
most important...
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36.  Make
it a “conversation”
 Lose
the podium –
Hitler used one,
you shouldn’t
 Forget
that
“imagine them
naked” nonsense

37.  Seek
feedback, act on it
 Be
available
during breaks
 All
ideas are good
ideas, compliment
freely
 Don’t
know the answer?

38.  Little
things that are really
big things:






Eye contact
Word choice
Body language
Appearance
Sincerity
Enthusiasm!!!

39.  Q&A
sessions at end
of seminar

Moves focus away
from message

Closes off discussion,
interaction,
involvement

40.  Apologizing

Never say “I’m not
a great speaker,
but…”

Never say “sorry,
this is my first time
up here…”

If you goof up, deal
with it and go on
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41. “Intuitives”
“Thinkers”
“Feelers”
“Sensors”
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42. Possibilities,
not details
Big
picture
“Next
generation”
product
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43. Analytical,
precise
logical
Process
Ignore
Win
lots of info
the emotional
them with logic
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44. How
do others
feel?
Don’t
like analysis
Social,
3rd
very loyal
party endorsements,testimonials
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45. Just
the facts
Lots
of detail
Seldom
make
errors
Put
things in context
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47.  Thou
shalt respect and praise
thine audience
 Thou
shalt starteth
on time – ALWAYS!
 When
possible, thou
shalt meet with
members of thine
audience before
presentation

48.  When
possible, thou
shalt bestow small
gifts upon thine
audience
 Thou
shalt maintain
individual eye
contact with thine
audience, and avoid
scanning thine
audience
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49.  Thou
shalt use
breaks to continue
nurturing rapport;
Socialize with thy
audience
 Thou
shalt use thy
audience’s own buzz
words and jargon
whenever possible
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50.  Thou
shalt convey
appreciation
 Thou
shalt dress
appropriately


1 step above thine
audience
Avoideth neckties
liketh the plague

51.  Thou
shalt learn to
be a good listener
 Thou
shalt
avoideth the “Fbomb” at all costs
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52.  Thou
shalt maketh
fun of thyself, not
thine audience

Thou needeth them
more than them
needeth thou!
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54.  John
Barba
 Taco, Inc
 1160 Cranston St
 Cranston, RI 02920
 email: johbar@taco-hvac.com
 Website: www.taco-hvac.com
 Blog: http://jbblog.flopro.taco-hvac.com
 Twitter: @barbajo1
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