This document provides tips for improving presentation skills. It emphasizes that presenters should not be afraid of failure, teach the audience something new, focus on the audience's wants and beliefs, establish clear goals for the presentation, and engage the audience within the first 90 seconds. It also recommends keeping the audience interested throughout, using visual aids effectively, speaking confidently and engaging body language, adapting to any subject matter, performing with the mindset that it is the presenter's show, building rapport, and closing the presentation on a strong note.

1. Presentation Skills
Brad Nickel
Captiva Companies
Captiva.io
brad@captiva.io
@clickbrain

2. Failure

3. No fear

4. It's just a conversation

5. It's all about me!

6. Teach me something

8. Care / Believe / Want

9. Fundamentals

10. What is the goal?

11. The first 90 seconds

12. Build Anticipation

14. Keep them interested

15. Oh Powerpoint!

16. One idea per slide

17. Use your voice

18. Use your body... naturally

19. Give meaning to boring

20. Never forget, it's your show

21. Build alliances

22. Never get to the end?

23. It's all about me

24. The Close

27. Assignment
• Something you would change about yourself
• Something you would change about your current company,
• Something you would change about a former company

28. Presentation Skills
Brad Nickel
Captiva Companies
Captiva.io
brad@captiva.io
@clickbrain