This document provides tips for giving presentations to the ACES Board in Las Vegas on March 19, 2014. It discusses introducing yourself to the audience and understanding your purpose and audience. It offers advice on preparing, including writing an outline, collecting examples, rehearsing, and preparing the setting. Tips are provided on grabbing the audience's attention, reinforcing points through multiple mediums, delivering clearly and with eye contact, involving participants, using examples and media, including exercises, and following up after the presentation.

1. Sharing What
You Know
ACES Board
Las Vegas
March 19, 2014

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3. Introductions
• Name
• Job
• How long in ACES?
• Speaking, teaching experience

4. Consider purpose, audience
• Skills (ACES workshop)
• Knowledge (prospective ACES members)
• Inspiration (ACES keynote)
• Fun (a little in any presentation)
• Persuasion (fund-raising, recruiting)

5. Consider audience
• What brought this audience together
(common experience or interest)?
• What does the audience already know?
• What does the audience want/need from
you?
• What do you want from the audience?
• Are you preaching to the choir?

6. Preparing your presentation
• What do you want to achieve?
• What are your points?
• Write (at least an outline, possibly a
handout, blog post, slides, script)
• Collect examples, anecdotes
• Consider scope (think big, think small)

7. More prep
• What’s the setting? (Check it out
physically)
• Test connection, projection, sound
• Make some notes (slides may be notes)
• Rehearse
• Prepare yourself (good night’s sleep,
restroom, water handy, mic position)

8. Grab their attention
What works best for this presentation?
• Personal connection/introduction
• Get right to the point
• Provocative question
• Tease
• Involve audience
• Media (if it works w/o context)

9. Reinforce your points
People learn (& retain) multiple ways:
• Hear (you say it)
• Read (slides, handout, blog)
• Write (they take notes)
• Do (exercise, assignment)

10. Delivery
• Speak clearly
• Choose strong words
• Eye contact
• Gesture with purpose
• Repeat important points (“I have a dream
…”)
• Smile

11. Critique yourself
• Do you need to speak up or slow down?
• Are you fidgeting or playing with
something (pen, keys, water bottle)?
• Are you swaying?
• Are you speaking into your notes?
• Are you reading your slides?
• Be careful w/ foul language

12. Reinforce points visually
• Slides (don’t make them distracting)

19. Reinforce points visually
• Slides (don’t make them distracting)
• Online examples (grab screenshots or
make sure they’re live)
• Flip charts, marker boards (write legibly)
• Video
• Props
• Costumes

21. Involve participants
• Introductions (relate the participants to
the topic)
• Questions (restate, respond, review)
• Positive feedback
• “Volleyball” if you don’t know
• Get back to the topic
• Stop filibusters

22. Use examples
• Your own experience (be careful w/ war
stories; self-deprecating humor helps)
• Invite participants’ examples
• Third-person examples
• Show examples on screen or handout

23. Use media
• Videos (illustrations, exercises)
• Music (live or recorded)
• Make it relevant (either in content or in
the point you deliver)
• Consider the length
• Changes pace & voice

24. Exercises drive home points
• Short writing or editing exercises
• Pairs or small groups – discussion or
exercise
• Role playing
• Competition
• Rewards
• Homework: Focus on the future

25. Webinar tips
• Lots of web services
• Cheaper than travel but less effective
• Test connection, software & sound
• Visuals are more important
• Mute callers when not interacting
• Shorter is better
• Direct interaction

26. Leave them thinking
• Watch time (better to cut content & end
strong than to rush your ending)
• Summarize
• Deliver on tease (if you teased)
• Q&A (maybe before close)
• Drama or media
• Call for action: What should they do?

27. And don’t forget …
Thank your participants!

28. Follow-up
• Give them contact information
• Set timetable for call to action: next
week, tomorrow, etc.
• Handout, blog post, resources
• Email reminder about call to action
• Phone call (time-consuming)
• Follow-up survey

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