The document provides tips for improving presentation skills. It recommends beginning presentations in an interesting way to engage the audience. It also suggests telling the audience the agenda, presenting the content, and recapping what was discussed. Additionally, it advises preparing thoroughly, making eye contact, practicing in the room, and planning for potential technology issues. The document also highlights using stories and social media effectively, avoiding plagiarism, handling questions confidently, and suggesting next steps for the audience.

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Presentation
Skills
Richard Brooks
K International

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https://youtu.be/MjcO2ExtHso

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Be interesting early
Presentations are dull

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The Magic Formula
• Tell them what you’re going to tell them
• Tell them
• Tell them what you told them

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Managing Nerves
• Get there early
• No coffee, drugs, alcohol
• Prepare, prepare, prepare
• Look people in the eyes
• Run through in the room
• Move around

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Technology
• Assume its not going to
work. You might have to
present without
powerpoint.
• Someone else’s laptop,
someone else’s screen.
• No fonts installed, no
internet connection.

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Practice > Feedback > Get good

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Use Stories

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Use Social Media
• Use it to your advantage. 10% of the
room will be on twitter.
• Make the content ‘tweetable’.
• Put your slides on slideshare.
• Put hashtag and name on all slides.
• Share with your own social network
before, during and after. Link it to
our network.

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Avoid Plagiarism
• Cite the relevant
research.
• Use Harvard referencing
method.
• Presentations, books,
papers, websites…
anything can be cited. Cite example

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Handle
Questions
mmmm…. Great…
any other
comments or
questions?

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Handle
Questions
Repeat the question
(gives you time to
think)… then answer
it generically.
mmmm…. Great
point. Let’s open
that up to the
floor.
I’m an asshole and
want to ask a really
difficult question that I
think you can’t answer.
Great question.
The question you
should be asking
is… and then
answer that one.

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Next Steps
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