The document provides tips and advice for giving presentations. It discusses common fears around public speaking and presenting, including a graphic showing the top fears are public speaking, heights, insects and financial problems. It encourages practicing before presenting, knowing and loving your audience, ditching notes, using images to remind you of key points, keeping presentations concise with bullet points, explaining events, rehearsing, and using formatting and color wisely to emphasize points. It also provides examples of effective presentation techniques like using graphs but focusing on what the data means rather than just numbers.

2. Top fears
41%
speaking 32% heights 24% insects 23%
to a group & bugs financial
problems
22% deep 20%
water sickness 19% death 18% flying

3. What’s your
presentation
nightmare?
What are your
dreams
of presentation
success?

6. Death by
powerpoint
Right now, someone out there is actually
dying from a boring presentation,
hopefully it’s not yours

10. Practice
before
presenting

12. It’s not just
“know your
audience”
It’s
love
your audience

14. Ditch
the notes…
You don’t
need them

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16. When someone puts all their text in their
presentation I say to myself:
“Dude?! What’s the point of
being here ?! Just email me
your slides and I’ll read it on
my own time without you.”

17. Rehearse and use images to
remind you of each point

20. No bullet points

21. Explain the events
of the last 24 hours

24. KISS the video

25. If you can’t use colour wisely,
then avoid it entirely!
Take care to match
colours and backgrounds
Take care to match
colours and backgrounds
Take care to match
colours and backgrounds

26. • Do use formatting and color to emphasize
(e.g. POPTA)
• Don’t include unrelated pictures

27. • Do chek yor speling for mestakes
• Do acknowledge previous work and help

28. GRAPHS ARE OK, BUT
REMEMBER:
It’s not just about the number,
it’s about what the numbers mean
Percentage of People Needing Presentation Skills
100
80
Percentage
60
40
20
0
Yes No Yes No
Academia Industry
Conclusion - It is important to learn presentation skills!

29. Few things about Fonts

31. • The ice breaker
• Evidence
• Quotation
• A true story
• The shock tactic

32. Inderpreet
T & P, BFGI

34. How many slides were used?
How many pictures were repeated?
How many fonts were used?