How to Rock a Presentation by Cynthia Hartwig at Two PensCynthia Hartwig
Cynthia Hartwig shares hard won presentation experience gained over 30 years of advertising and business communication pitches in How to Rock a Presentation. Learn how to make blended presentations, get away from being enslaved by PowerPoint, and figure out how to tell stories that make an audience connect with you.
Mentored by a millionaire- The Law of Extraordinary Success Jason Kwan
The Copyright owns by Steven Scott.
Mentored by a millionaire- The Law of Extraordinary Success by Steven Scott.
Practical Techniques and Ways to Become a Millionaire. Steven Scott will be your perfect mentor!
The thrills and spills of presenting and workshopsOliver Feldwick
Just a little presentation I've written about writing presentations, presenting them, running workshops and generally doing work (hopefully better).
I used it for an internal session at work but figured I'd share it.
How to Rock a Presentation by Cynthia Hartwig at Two PensCynthia Hartwig
Cynthia Hartwig shares hard won presentation experience gained over 30 years of advertising and business communication pitches in How to Rock a Presentation. Learn how to make blended presentations, get away from being enslaved by PowerPoint, and figure out how to tell stories that make an audience connect with you.
Mentored by a millionaire- The Law of Extraordinary Success Jason Kwan
The Copyright owns by Steven Scott.
Mentored by a millionaire- The Law of Extraordinary Success by Steven Scott.
Practical Techniques and Ways to Become a Millionaire. Steven Scott will be your perfect mentor!
The thrills and spills of presenting and workshopsOliver Feldwick
Just a little presentation I've written about writing presentations, presenting them, running workshops and generally doing work (hopefully better).
I used it for an internal session at work but figured I'd share it.
PowerPoint presentations are often hit and miss. Make sure yours are a hit every time by following the guidelines and tips this slideshow provides. This is a presentation developed through the Graduate Resource Center at the University of New Mexico.
You’ve no doubt noticed that we’re slowly drowning beneath an ocean of content. Before long, our little world of words and pictures will be so flood bound, it’ll make Tuvalu look like Mt Everest.
That creates a huge challenge for communicators. How do you produce the stories that will float to the surface… that will engage and inspire people to belief, action and results?
Thankfully, there’s something working in your favour. You see, almost every business, brand, project or team is loaded with stories that could help and inspire others.
You’ve just got to know how to tell them…
Measuring outsourced services for your successConformato
Райан Гибсон - опытный заказчик и знает, как аутсорсить разработку и маркетинг в разные локации мира.
14 апреля на Conformato Conference 2015 он представил доклад о том, какими качествами должен обладать подрядчик, как стоит построить коммуникацию. Также поделился советами о том, как можно настроить взаимодействие на разных этапах проекта.
Прошло только 4 доклада из 15. Регистрация открыта по 1 мая. БЕСПЛАТНО
=http://goo.gl/WfSJzU=
In the course of her career working solo, in a duo, with agencies, with corporations, and with a startup, Meagan's learned a few valuable lessons (some the hard way) about how to grow as a designer. She'll talk about how she got started, as well as insights on collaborating, evolving your style, and getting things launched. You'll also hear about the design maxims she holds dear (and which ones she ignores), and the web development techniques that have strengthened her design skills. She hopes to leave you with some ideas for how to be a web design champion.
OTA The Art of the Pitch Workshop handoutDavid Terrar
The Pitch Workshop handout (not presentation slides) from Penny Jackson and David Terrar's Saturday morning workshop session at this year's Over The Air conference at Imperial College, London, September 10 + 11, 2010. This workshop was designed to help you improve your presentation skills and learn the art of "the Pitch". Penny and David got the audience on their feet, thinking about how to get in to the mind of their audience, whether they are prospects, customers, friends, potential investors or partners. It covers how to craft and refine your message, and explains the 9 C's of a good elevator pitch.
Presentation slides from session on empathy and communication between those with the engineering mindset (geek stance) and the rest of the population. Presented 14 November 2016 in Toronto
You’ve Got A Lot To Say. People Deserve to Hear It.
You don’t need to picture people in their underwear to get up on stage and share what you know. You do, however, need to have a compelling idea along with a well-written abstract and a well-structured, well-prepared presentation in order to give the talk you–and your audience–deserve.
That’s not all–show up with 5 minutes of a presentation and learn from seasoned professionals who have seen their fair share of stages. We’ll provide you with a safe, welcoming environment and help you by providing valuable and actionable feedback that will help you level-up your presentation game.
Start here, and evolve your own patterns and techniques that work best for you.
Kevin Duncan - Speaking the visual language using images for effective commun...soapconf
Kevin uses material from his best selling book, The Diagrams Book, to explain how to tell inspiring stories and shorten training time by using visuals powerfully.
One of the neglected skills that many managers ovrerlook is to confront reality, confirm "truths," and objectively address the needs of the business in a way that productively meets requirement
Startup Finance Guide: Building Cash Flow StatementsSankalp Forum
This presentation explains components of a cash flow statement, how they should be prepared, and crucial parameters for analyzing them.
IntelleGrow is a unique venture-debt financing company that offers loans to businesses based on their viability and future performance. This slide deck was prepared for Sankalp Forum. The Forum is an enabler of socially oriented early-stage businesses, and catalyzes investments, mentors and international networks to do so.
Read more about Sankalp at www.sankalpforum.com
PowerPoint presentations are often hit and miss. Make sure yours are a hit every time by following the guidelines and tips this slideshow provides. This is a presentation developed through the Graduate Resource Center at the University of New Mexico.
You’ve no doubt noticed that we’re slowly drowning beneath an ocean of content. Before long, our little world of words and pictures will be so flood bound, it’ll make Tuvalu look like Mt Everest.
That creates a huge challenge for communicators. How do you produce the stories that will float to the surface… that will engage and inspire people to belief, action and results?
Thankfully, there’s something working in your favour. You see, almost every business, brand, project or team is loaded with stories that could help and inspire others.
You’ve just got to know how to tell them…
Measuring outsourced services for your successConformato
Райан Гибсон - опытный заказчик и знает, как аутсорсить разработку и маркетинг в разные локации мира.
14 апреля на Conformato Conference 2015 он представил доклад о том, какими качествами должен обладать подрядчик, как стоит построить коммуникацию. Также поделился советами о том, как можно настроить взаимодействие на разных этапах проекта.
Прошло только 4 доклада из 15. Регистрация открыта по 1 мая. БЕСПЛАТНО
=http://goo.gl/WfSJzU=
In the course of her career working solo, in a duo, with agencies, with corporations, and with a startup, Meagan's learned a few valuable lessons (some the hard way) about how to grow as a designer. She'll talk about how she got started, as well as insights on collaborating, evolving your style, and getting things launched. You'll also hear about the design maxims she holds dear (and which ones she ignores), and the web development techniques that have strengthened her design skills. She hopes to leave you with some ideas for how to be a web design champion.
OTA The Art of the Pitch Workshop handoutDavid Terrar
The Pitch Workshop handout (not presentation slides) from Penny Jackson and David Terrar's Saturday morning workshop session at this year's Over The Air conference at Imperial College, London, September 10 + 11, 2010. This workshop was designed to help you improve your presentation skills and learn the art of "the Pitch". Penny and David got the audience on their feet, thinking about how to get in to the mind of their audience, whether they are prospects, customers, friends, potential investors or partners. It covers how to craft and refine your message, and explains the 9 C's of a good elevator pitch.
Presentation slides from session on empathy and communication between those with the engineering mindset (geek stance) and the rest of the population. Presented 14 November 2016 in Toronto
You’ve Got A Lot To Say. People Deserve to Hear It.
You don’t need to picture people in their underwear to get up on stage and share what you know. You do, however, need to have a compelling idea along with a well-written abstract and a well-structured, well-prepared presentation in order to give the talk you–and your audience–deserve.
That’s not all–show up with 5 minutes of a presentation and learn from seasoned professionals who have seen their fair share of stages. We’ll provide you with a safe, welcoming environment and help you by providing valuable and actionable feedback that will help you level-up your presentation game.
Start here, and evolve your own patterns and techniques that work best for you.
Kevin Duncan - Speaking the visual language using images for effective commun...soapconf
Kevin uses material from his best selling book, The Diagrams Book, to explain how to tell inspiring stories and shorten training time by using visuals powerfully.
One of the neglected skills that many managers ovrerlook is to confront reality, confirm "truths," and objectively address the needs of the business in a way that productively meets requirement
Startup Finance Guide: Building Cash Flow StatementsSankalp Forum
This presentation explains components of a cash flow statement, how they should be prepared, and crucial parameters for analyzing them.
IntelleGrow is a unique venture-debt financing company that offers loans to businesses based on their viability and future performance. This slide deck was prepared for Sankalp Forum. The Forum is an enabler of socially oriented early-stage businesses, and catalyzes investments, mentors and international networks to do so.
Read more about Sankalp at www.sankalpforum.com
Investors & Opportunities by StartupBashBDStartupBashBD
“Investors & Opportunities” is about connecting investors & entrepreneurs so they can better understand each other’s need within the local context. Sessions will cover stories about successful investments and raising funds along with interactive sessions to put what we’re learning into action
This event was held at NewsCred's office in Dhaka, Bangladesh on November 20, 2013
Professional Singapore Company Registration Services. AsiaBiz offers Company Registration, Incorporation, Setup, Formation, Work Visa, Accounting and Income Tax services.
Boosting Digital Startup Financing in Europe by France Digitale France Digitale
France Digitale was contracted in 2013 to lead the investors’ pillar of the Startup Europe initiative called the Web Investors Forum. The work of the Web Investor’s Forum is focused on 7 EU countries: Germany, the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Sweden, and France, with the following objectives:
• Draw an overview of the activity of the professional investment industry on a pan-European and local level;
• Pinpoint challenges faced by the industry that slow down the evolution of European funding landscape for funding and entrepreneurial growth;
• Showcase European best practices in the field of public policy and industry support;
• Propose an action plan to increase investment in the European Internet and mobile tech startups and grow that investment throughout Europe.
For the purpose of this mission, we travelled across Europe and interviewed over 40 General Partners and business angels in seven countries, and drew the following conclusions.
Final report of France Digitale - startups financing - web investors forumFrenchWeb.fr
Rapport (en anglais) rédigé par France Digitale sur demande de la Commission européenne au sujet du financement des start-ups en Europe et sur les pistes pour l'améliorer. Document publié en novembre 2014.
The 3 Secrets of Highly Successful GraduatesReid Hoffman
Today's graduates don't feel ready for the new world of work. I share three things that successful professionals eventually figure out about their careers. http://www.startupofyou.com
The employer-employee relationship is broken. Managers face a seemingly impossible dilemma: You can’t afford to offer lifetime employment. But you can’t build a lasting, innovative business when everyone acts like a free agent. The solution: Stop thinking of employees as family or free agents, and start thinking of them as allies on a tour of duty.
Co-authored by Reid Hoffman, founder/chairman of LinkedIn, and Ben Casnocha and Chris Yeh, The Alliance teaches managers how to recruit, manage, and retain the entrepreneurial employees your business needs to succeed in the networked age.
This deck is a visual summary of our book: http://amzn.to/1kWQB4j
The "tour of duty" is the way you organize the Alliance at work. In this context, a tour of duty represents a commitment by employer and employee to a specific mission of finite duration. We see this approach as a way to incorporate some of the advantages from both lifetime employment and free agency. Like lifetime employment, the tour of duty allows employers and employees to build trust and mutual investment; like free agency, it preserves the flexibility that both employers and employees need to adapt to a rapidly changing world.
Having a cool PowerPoint template is CRITICAL if you want to have slides that will WOW an audience. The benefits of purchasing a professional presentation template include:
Save Time – With a purchased template you can focus more on honing your message and less on building a template framework.
Elegant Design – The presentation templates are clean, minimal, and look professional.
Customizable – All the templates are easy to customize. Simply add your text and swap out any images/graphics you don’t want.
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Animations Included – For many of the PowerPoint templates offered, there are custom animations built into the template. If you don’t want the animations you can always remove them.
Every single word you write and release into the inter-webs is an opportunity to reach through a computer screen and make a connection. A connection that leads to a relationship, that leads to a client, that leads to a referral that leads to another client (or three).
The internet gives us access to so many more businesses – businesses that may look just like yours. Potential clients can compare and contrast (on their smart phones, possibly while hiding in your toilet). We need to connect with people, to inspire and provoke opinion, and to grow a tribe around our business so that we’re cultivating leads and relationships, not shouting into a crowd.
Particularly if what you do is so left-of-centre that your Nanna nods politely when you try to explain it, you need to educate your prospects, through your blog, on what you’re doing and why they need it.
Career Advice for Advertising, Design, Marketing & LifeJulie Kucinski
Those who may have not done (enough) teach.
Gave this presentation to a class at the University of Minnesota and quickly realized I really wrote it for myself! Friends and co-workers liked it so here it goes.
What do you think?
Apologies to the many Flickrites - all the images are theirs and they are fabulous, but I lost the links. If your image is here, please tell me, I'd love to attribute it!! Thanks for reading, look forward to feedback.
Presentation skills, quotations about presentation skills, body language, preparation, planning, 1st impression, fighting your fears, last impression, conclusion, education.
I attended the Behance 99% Conference in May of 2012. It was a very inspirational and fascinating experience. These slides capture some of my impressions, as well as some direct quotes from conference speakers.
[SIGGRAPH ASIA 2011 Course]How to write a siggraph paperI-Chao Shen
I found this slide on the forum. Thx for the guy that wrote most of the content down for us to review. Hope everyone can learn and think a lot from it!
Learning to Communicate Smart through People Skills.
Summary of Les Giblin books like Skill With People, Art of Dealing with People and How to have power and confidence in dealing with people
“The culture of any organization is shaped by the worst behavior the leader is willing to tolerate.”
In this talk we will explore why agile is way more than a set of practices but defines a whole new culture for organizations.
A culture that requires organizations to raise their level of consciousness in order to create better and more humane workplaces where individuals can bring their whole self at work everyday.
Levering on the Management 3.0 toolkit, activities borrowed from Improv and tools used in Life Coaching we’ll deep dive into topics like Values, Delegation, Listening at a deeper level and Trust.
- Why let it go from the command and control mindset?
- Which tools can you use as an Agile leader?
- Why trust is the foundation?
- Why self-awareness is key as an Agile leader?
- As a leader, am I a roadblock in the Agile adoption initiative?
(2016 Version) Dating Skills For Engineers ( entrepreneurship skills) iain.verigin
I begin with "What Does A Project Look and Feel LIke?" I talk about the fact that projects are stressful and have an emotional curve that is "U" shaped. We start excited and then move slowly to despair before getting excited again. To get thru this we need to be bring "Persistence, Grit, and Cheer" to our work place. Mainly we need to bring "Cheer" to the workplace.
I hypothesize that "Cheer" is supported by 4 personal skills -- Communication, Listening, Helping, and Don't Be An Asshole".
Then I focus on four fundamental personal skills of entrepreneurship – Communicating (Heath Brothers), Listening (Marshal Goldsmith), Helping (Edgar Schein), and Don’t Be An Asshole (Robert Sutton). I also add in the Growth Mindset (Carol Dweck) as part of Don’t Be An Asshole.
#more
I used to call this talk “Entrepreneurship Fundamental Skills” and the nickname that emerged was “Dating Skills For Engineers”.
2. “Good Ideas are so frequently undermined by bad presentations that
it is almost tragic”
Shelly Lazarus, Chairman and CEO, Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide
3. So why is presenting so important
• Work poorly presented is frequently work that is rejected.
your
X
• Work rejected is work that has to be revisited at the agency’s expense.
• Work that’s rejected wears people down with disappointment and the need to
X
revisit the same brief over and over again.
task
X
• Poorly presented work doesn’t do much for the client relationship either.
any
5. The Value of Well-Presented Work
• Well presented work gets approved, the job moves on, we can all go back to
focus on the work.
your boss
X
• Even if the client rejects the work, your professionalism is respected and in turn
you’ll receive a professional response directed at improving the job.
• Well presented work also develops trust. By presenting well you show that you
believe in what you do, and your sincerity becomes the foundation for trust.
• ...and there’s the excitement factor.
6. small brown things
that move...
MICE!
A CONCEPT: an abstract or AN IDEA: the specific result of your cognition, what you
general idea inferred or have in your mind.
derived from specific
instances
7. It is Not What You Say
It is What Other People Hear
• One of the most difficult things about presenting, is that we’ve already done the
work and our heads are into the next three jobs. “We know why we did it the way
we did,” we moan, “It should be obvious.” But the fact is, it’s not obvious.
• You have to guide people through your thinking, get their buy-in. By explaining
where you’ve come from, you include them in the process, giving them a share of
the work .
• In covering-off the thinking that lead you to your recommended concept, you put
an end to the question, “What if we did this..?” because you have generally
already tried it, and in showing how you reached your conclusion, you’ve already
shown why you’ve moved on from that point.
9. The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint
• PowerPoint undermines good thinking by forcing the imprecise use of language,
by fragmenting information, and by encouraging the triumph of order over content.
• These inherent problems are then compounded by slavish devotion to an array of
tools (clipart, transitions, templates etc.) that are supposed to help, and a widely
embraced presentation slide that involves reading every last word on the slide.
• PowerPoint over-dependency represents intellectual lethargy on the part of the
presenter, and generally includes something similar in its audience.
• ...by the way I am using Keynote.
10. Your Way
• Frank Sinatra was one of the great
presenters.
• He presented in his own style. And
you can present in your own style.
• Today you will learn a few
techniques. But you must present in
your own way.
• As Frank used to sing “I'll state my
case, of which I'm certain”.
11. Homework
• Everything that can go wrong, will go
wrong. So make sure you’ve
covered all eventualities.
• You need to spend way longer
preparing than you do presenting.
Way, way longer.
• Make sure you present it all the way
through with all the technology and
charts and stuff, to a critical
audience.
• Only through presenting it will you
see where the flaws and
weaknesses are.
12. Energy
• Be confident. If you’re happy with
the work you should be confident.
• Be happy. A happy presenter is one
who knows no fear, and clients can
smell fear.
• Don’t do a presentation just
communicate with passion and
imagination.
• Stand up. Walk about. Talk naturally.
Tell jokes. Tell stories.
• Be a natural, warm energetic person
telling people about interesting stuff.
13. Know Your Audience
• Who are you presenting to?
• What do they want from you?
• What mood are they in?
• Are they words people or pictures
people or numbers people?
• Do you need to establish your
credibility somehow?
• The presentation isn’t about you. It’s
about them.
14. Distill
• Picasso was one asked how he
could turn a large block of rock
into a sculpture of a lion.
• “It’s easy,” he said. “Just take a
chisel and chip off all bits that
don’t look like a lion”.
• Maybe you can see the idea, but
to others it still looks like a large,
ugly boulder.
• You have to reduce it to make it
simple. Less is always more...
15. Purpose
• If it’s a purpose you can share then
state that purpose right upfront.
• Make sure your presentation is
geared to that purpose.
• If you’re trying to get a decision
made don’t spend 20 minutes
diverting to something else…
• Let people know what you expect
of them. What are you expecting
them to do?
16. Reveal
• You’re now ready to show the BIG
IDEA.
• Paint pictures in their minds that will
form the perfect backdrop to those
you are about to reveal.
• Then reveal. It’s your work – it’s gold.
• Take them through the concept
slowly, Once you feel everyone
understands the idea, then go over it
again, this time explaining the detail.
17. Ideas not Executions
• The idea does not limit itself to
being the literal expression of the
strategy. It does not stop there.
• The idea expresses the benefit in
an engaging, distinctive way. The
execution is the way the idea is
presented, explained and depicted.
• An execution is an idea about the
idea. In other words, the selling idea
dramatizes the benefit, and the
execution dramatizes the idea.
• Is the art of selling ideas not
executions...
18. The Finish
• People pay disproportionate
attention to the end of things and
they remember the end of things
better.
• Most people’s presentations just
fizzle out at the end because they run
out of energy before the end.
• Make conclusions. You’re an expert.
Don’t be afraid to make your
recommendation.
• Summarize – recap everything you’ve
just told them in your presentation.
19. Defending
• Now it’s time for someone else to
have their say. Usually it’s the client.
• Some like to comment straight
away. If they’re straight into their
comments – listen.
• Others like to mull it over. If they’re a
muller, leave them to mull.
• Defend your work in line with the
thinking you’ve already presented.
• But whatever happens, never, ever,
create answers on the spot.
20. Always Remember
• It is not what you say that counts it is what other people hear.
• One of the most important truths of any presentation is that it does not exist in a
vacuum.
• Every presentation must have a theme and a narrative structure. Be thinking as
much about the drama of what you have to say as about the content.
• People don’t care how much you know, unless they know how much you care.
• The key to all story endings is to give the audience what it wants, but not in the
way it expects.
23. Others presented...
• Military Strategies
• Attack Plans
• Overviews of Resources
Required
• Broad Costings Depending on
Length of Battle
• Widely Varying Casualty
Estimates
24. Odysseus
presented...
• Trojans Are On Alert - Waiting
for Attack
• Troy is well defended
• Conventional Attack is
Dangerous
• Time consuming (10 years)
• Capital intensive
...an analysis
28. Reading
• The Perfect Pitch, by Jon Steel.
• The Cognitive Style of
PowerPoint, by Edward Tufte.
• Envisioning Information, by
Edward Tufte
• Presentation Zen, by Garr
Reynolds.
• How not to come Second, by
David Kean
• ...and many more.
29. Antonis Kocheilas
antonis.kocheilas@me.com
As Managing Partner / Planning for
LOWE Athens, I am responsible for
agency’s acknowledged strategic
prowess. LOWE Athens is the 2nd
most effective agency office in
Europe according to the Effie
Effectiveness Index
(http://www.effieindex.com)