The document provides tips for designing effective slide decks for webinars. It recommends simplifying slides so they load quickly online. Specific tips include using one main point per slide, visually arranging bullet points using tools like SmartArt, and adding small graphics. Slides should have plain backgrounds without animation or transitions to minimize loading time. Complex slides can be "built" over multiple slides for clear understanding. The overall goal is to engage audiences while optimizing the online viewing experience.
This document provides planning tools and guidance for organizing a successful webinar. It includes a timeline that outlines tasks from 8 weeks before an event through follow up after. Key steps are selecting topics and presenters, marketing the event, preparing materials, conducting a dry run, hosting the event, and following up. Checklists are provided to track tasks. Tips include focusing marketing, keeping registration simple, sending reminders, determining audio needs, and avoiding silence during the event. The goal is to take the guesswork out of hosting webinars and improve outcomes.
Presentation delivery tips and techniquesLee Bandy
The document provides tips for giving effective presentations. It discusses preparing visual aids and speaker notes, starting strongly with an introduction that states the purpose and agenda, and managing the flow through establishing norms, using transitions, and staying focused. The goal is to impart knowledge to an audience and engage them through proper preparation, delivery, and handling of the presentation content and format.
1) A short video can be an effective way to open a meeting by setting the tone and getting everyone in the same frame of mind.
2) Videos can eliminate barriers by showing places attendees couldn't otherwise see, or bringing in remote experts.
3) Videos provide everyone with the best view of a subject by focusing attention on key areas.
This document provides guidance for running effective remote workshops. It begins with an introduction that outlines important considerations for preparing for a remote workshop, such as selecting participants, testing technology, and establishing roles. The document then shares various methods that were used in remote workshops, such as interviews, warm-ups, ideation sessions, and validation activities. For each method, it provides a description and suggestions when they are best used. It concludes with takeaways on keys insights and useful tools for remote workshops. The overall document aims to help workshop facilitators learn from experiences conducting remote workshops and adapt participatory design methods to an online context.
This document provides guidance and recipes for conducting effective remote workshops. It begins by outlining what needs to be considered when preparing for a remote workshop, including inviting participants, testing technology, and defining roles. The document then presents various methods that were used in remote workshops, such as interviews, warm-ups, ideation sessions, and validation activities. For each method, a description is provided along with when the method is best used. The document concludes by highlighting key insights around remote workshop facilitation and an overview of useful tools. The overall aim is to help workshop designers learn from experiences conducting remote workshops and build their own effective workshop menus and plans.
This document provides 10 keys to creating effective software training presentations and videos. The keys include showing an agenda and sticking to it, building information slowly with explanations and examples, using simple visuals like pictures and lists, working within the tool's interface when possible, and keeping internal information separate. The document advises ending with a summary and additional resources, and considering presentations as part of a larger series to accommodate different experience levels. Implementing at least the first five keys is recommended for making presentations as useful as possible for internal and external audiences.
This document provides planning tools and guidance for organizing a successful webinar. It includes a timeline that outlines tasks from 8 weeks before an event through follow up after. Key steps are selecting topics and presenters, marketing the event, preparing materials, conducting a dry run, hosting the event, and following up. Checklists are provided to track tasks. Tips include focusing marketing, keeping registration simple, sending reminders, determining audio needs, and avoiding silence during the event. The goal is to take the guesswork out of hosting webinars and improve outcomes.
Presentation delivery tips and techniquesLee Bandy
The document provides tips for giving effective presentations. It discusses preparing visual aids and speaker notes, starting strongly with an introduction that states the purpose and agenda, and managing the flow through establishing norms, using transitions, and staying focused. The goal is to impart knowledge to an audience and engage them through proper preparation, delivery, and handling of the presentation content and format.
1) A short video can be an effective way to open a meeting by setting the tone and getting everyone in the same frame of mind.
2) Videos can eliminate barriers by showing places attendees couldn't otherwise see, or bringing in remote experts.
3) Videos provide everyone with the best view of a subject by focusing attention on key areas.
This document provides guidance for running effective remote workshops. It begins with an introduction that outlines important considerations for preparing for a remote workshop, such as selecting participants, testing technology, and establishing roles. The document then shares various methods that were used in remote workshops, such as interviews, warm-ups, ideation sessions, and validation activities. For each method, it provides a description and suggestions when they are best used. It concludes with takeaways on keys insights and useful tools for remote workshops. The overall document aims to help workshop facilitators learn from experiences conducting remote workshops and adapt participatory design methods to an online context.
This document provides guidance and recipes for conducting effective remote workshops. It begins by outlining what needs to be considered when preparing for a remote workshop, including inviting participants, testing technology, and defining roles. The document then presents various methods that were used in remote workshops, such as interviews, warm-ups, ideation sessions, and validation activities. For each method, a description is provided along with when the method is best used. The document concludes by highlighting key insights around remote workshop facilitation and an overview of useful tools. The overall aim is to help workshop designers learn from experiences conducting remote workshops and build their own effective workshop menus and plans.
This document provides 10 keys to creating effective software training presentations and videos. The keys include showing an agenda and sticking to it, building information slowly with explanations and examples, using simple visuals like pictures and lists, working within the tool's interface when possible, and keeping internal information separate. The document advises ending with a summary and additional resources, and considering presentations as part of a larger series to accommodate different experience levels. Implementing at least the first five keys is recommended for making presentations as useful as possible for internal and external audiences.
This document provides tips for giving effective presentations. It discusses reaching the audience by knowing them, telling a story, and being engaging. Good structure includes stating the goal and direction upfront. Slides should have minimal text and emphasize visualization. Data should be clearly presented in labeled, formatted graphs and figures rather than raw numbers. Practice and learning from other presentations are also recommended.
The document is a training DVD program on people skills for home brewing. It covers several topics:
1. The change curve model which outlines the typical phases people go through in response to change.
2. An effective team leader model which emphasizes leading people and managing resources to achieve company vision and goals through problem solving processes and communication.
3. Active listening skills including focusing on the speaker, acknowledging what they say, responding to seek clarity, and providing feedback.
4. How to delegate tasks through explaining the purpose, task steps, getting feedback, specifying responsibilities, and setting a review.
5. Training others by telling them what to do, showing them how, letting them try, observing
Creating a client friendly user experience in Drupal 7Five Mile
Slides from the Five Mile Media presentation at the Drupal Show & Tell event held in London on 21 November 2013. Five Mile covered how you can improve the user interface in Drupal 7 to offer your clients a better user experience. Slides include topics such as: providing client dashboards, simplifying toolbar and menus, improving content management, better use of the WYSIWYG, utilising preview.
How scrum teams can excel in a remote settingHina Popal
This session will go over how to make your scrum process friendly for a remote setting. Scrum thrives in settings where everyone is co-located but in the digital world we can not assume that teams working in the same office is the standard. How can Scrum work for your team when its now remote? Its simple! Tailoring the processes to meet your teams needs will allow you to continue working without reinventing the entire wheel. In this talk we will go over what our new remote norm looks like, what scrum is, steps to consider when tailoring, and tips on how to tailor some of the process based off of real world experiences working with remote scrum teams.
This document describes a cloud-based concept creation software called SampleBoard. It has features such as intuitive drag and drop functionality with design tools, access to ColorLovers colors and patterns, the ability to upload and import images from various sources like Pinterest and the web, and export and share concepts via social media, email, Google Drive, and more. The software also allows for folder management to organize work into projects and libraries.
The document outlines Hong Kong regional activities and plans for the third and fourth quarters of 2010 and the first half of 2011 to enhance the brand recognition of CTG overseas, position CTG internationally, and cultivate regional processes. Key activities include seminars, conferences, networking, and leveraging partnerships and social media to generate business leads and interact with markets outside of China. The near-term quarterly goals are to support a seminar in Singapore in November and exhibit at the HKTDC SME Expo in Hong Kong in December.
While the judicial interpretation relates to all enterprises and workers, the new amendment to the Labour Contract Law provides stricter regulations on labour dispatching businesses, with an impact on both labour dispatching agencies and service users.
China Talent Group is going to host a conference, named: New Manpower Forum, in Shanghai (09/6), Beijing (09/14) and Guangzhou (09/21). This is an annual event for CTG user gathering as well as a good opportunity for overseas organizations and partners for networking.
We invited keynote speakers from government, university and corporate client to share insight on the forthcoming manpower issues/regulations
This document reviews the marketing strategy for W1 in Hong Kong. It discusses identifying W1's market positioning and differentiators compared to competitors. The strategy involves expanding distribution channels through malls, direct mailing, and associations. It also recommends focusing on value-added products and services, storytelling, and leveraging technology and celebrities for promotion. The document suggests revisiting the operational model and marketing strategies under changing market conditions and customer preferences.
We invited keynote speakers from government, university and corporate client to share insight on the forthcoming manpower issues/regulations.
Dont miss the opportunities in speaking to CTG executives about Go-to China strategy...
CTG is a technique used to monitor the heartbeat of the fetus and the contractions of the uterus during pregnancy and labor. It involves using ultrasound to track fetal heart rate and strapping a belt around the mother's abdomen to monitor uterine contractions. CTG provides important information to assess fetal well-being and guide decisions during delivery.
though "The future for MNCs in China" report was released in 2012 by KMPG, the content is still valid and shed the light for MNCs planning ahead...what are the key points from the report:
1 Rising labor cost
2 Shortage of Talent
3 Pay-for-performance is not working in China bcos of the Income tax system, ppl prefers low income to take back home.
4 Capital Market has not yet opened.
5 Biz license issue
6 Lack of innovation and management skills for future leaders in China
7 JV - has become popular, cos of license issue (if you cant beat them, join them: MNCs and Local companies leverage each other).
8 Corporate Incentive: tech firm corporate tax 25% to 15%, R&D has 50% bonus reduction.
9 Shared Service and outsourcing
10 Payment and cloud computing
Besides, it's convincing reading the biz leaders insight from different service sector, luxury (Bluebell), legal, Biz centre (the Executive Centre), Outsourcing (Genpact), Apparel (Avery Dennison), Logistics (FedEx), and of course KPMG itself.
English for Presentations: Structuring Your Presentationshumanenglish
Improve your English, attend our free webinars: http://bit.ly/tfeMjw
Learn how the strategies and the language to structure your presentations and present like a pro! You will learn the vocabulary, phrases and pronunciation used by native English speakers to make effective and memorable presentations in English.
This class covers
+ Language used to talk about presentations
+ Some barriers to giving a successful presentation
+ Preparing to give effective presentations
+ Summarizing content
+ The audience's viewpoint-psychological and other factors
Our experience and insight March 2020
Making virtual workshops work
The document discusses lessons learned from facilitating successful virtual workshops. It provides tips for planning virtual workshops, such as preparing an agenda with assigned tasks, designing interactive activities, and having clear roles for coordinators. It also recommends setting expectations for participants, maintaining an outside-in perspective by involving customers and experts, facilitating like being in a physical room, and using technology tools to capture perspectives. An example agenda is provided that incorporated pre-reading, breakout groups, customer interviews, expert presentations, reflection, and implications discussions. The overall message is that with proper planning, virtual workshops can be an effective alternative to in-person sessions.
More and more meeting and training presentations are going to a virtual format. This presentation will provide you with good practices to run a smooth Webinar or virtual meeting. This presentation is applicable regardless of the Webinar platform that you use.
The document provides 10 rules for effective PowerPoint presentations:
1. Write a script before creating slides
2. Only include one main point per slide
3. Avoid long paragraphs of text on slides
4. Pay attention to simple slide design with easy to read fonts and colors
5. Use images sparingly to reinforce points
6. Consider your presentation manner beyond just the slides
7. Open with an intriguing hook to engage the audience
8. Ask questions of the audience to encourage interaction
9. Modulate your voice to keep the presentation lively
10. Be willing to break rules when it enhances the presentation
Agile-Friendly User Research. Nina Belk, UX People, 2013Nina Belk
“It takes too long." "We don’t have the budget." "We don’t really need it, we can just optimise once we’ve gone live.” Sound familiar?
As UX embraces agile as a project delivery approach, research seems get left out in the cold. Rather than shivering and complaining about it though maybe we just need to stick two fingers up to these assumptions and dare to do things a little differently!
In her workshop at UX People, Nina helped delegates explore how to bring research in from the cold on agile projects. There were tips on getting the research basics right (effective participant recruitment and facilitation techniques), and delegates were given the opportunity to road-test their facilitation and analysis skills in an agile-friendly framework (full exercises not available in this presentation).
If you're looking to arm yourself with some practical skills, and a research approach that will blow those assumptions about speed, cost and the lack of value out of the water then this workshop would have been for you, but you'll have to make do with this SlideShare presentation instead!
Planning an effective presentationStudy guideFor a printer-fri.docxrandymartin91030
Planning an effective presentation
Study guide
For a printer-friendly PDF version of this guide, clickhere
This study guide offers you an insight into the process of planning an effective presentation. It focuses on the importance of the presenter's relationship with the audience and suggests key strategies for making an impact.
Other Useful Guides: Delivering an effective presentation, Using visual aids.
What is a effective presentation?
A effective presentation makes the best use of the relationship between the presenter and the audience. It takes full consideration of the audience’s needs in order to capture their interest, develop their understanding, inspire their confidence and achieve the presenter’s objectives.
Careful planning is essential.
Seven stages in planning a presentation
1. Preparation
Many factors affect the design of your presentation. A powerful presenter will acknowledge and address each of the following:
· objectives;
· audience;
· venue;
· remit.
Objectives
Why you are making your presentation? Bear in mind what you want to achieve and what you want your audience to take away with them. Once you have decided upon your objectives, you are in a much better position to make strategic decisions about the design and tone of your presentation. For example, a presentation to a seminar group might require a balanced
argument, whereas a charity appeal might require a more creative approach. Ask yourself:
· what do you want your audience to have understood?
· what action do you want your audience to take following your presentation?
· how can you best design your presentation to meet your objectives?
Audience
Your audience will have a variety of different experiences, interests and levels of knowledge. A powerful presenter will need to acknowledge these and prepare for and respond to them accordingly. Ask yourself:
· how much will your audience already know about your topic?
· how can you link new material to things they might already understand?
· will you need to win them over to a particular point of view?
You may not be able to answer these questions for each member of your audience but you should have enough information to ensure that you have targeted your material at the right level for their needs. This might involve avoiding technical jargon or explaining abstract concepts with clear practical examples. If you fail to consider your audience’s needs, you will fail to appeal to their interest and imagination.
Venue
Where will you be making your presentation? What will the room be like? What
atmosphere will the physical conditions create? A large lecture theatre might create a formal atmosphere. Similarly, a seminar room might create a less formal tone. Ask yourself:
· what kind of atmosphere do you wish to create?
· how might the room arrangement affect your relationship with the audience?
· can you do anything to change the arrangement of the room to suit your
objectives?
· what audio-visual aids can you use?
Remit
You m.
"A scenario is a description of a person’s interaction with a system.
Scenarios help focus design efforts on the user’s requirements, which are distinct from technical or business requirements.
Scenarios may be related to ‘use cases’, which describe interactions at a technical level. Unlike use cases, however, scenarios can be understood by people who do not have any technical background. They are therefore suitable for use during participatory design activities." http://infodesign.com.au/usabilityresources/scenarios/
This document provides tips for giving effective presentations. It discusses reaching the audience by knowing them, telling a story, and being engaging. Good structure includes stating the goal and direction upfront. Slides should have minimal text and emphasize visualization. Data should be clearly presented in labeled, formatted graphs and figures rather than raw numbers. Practice and learning from other presentations are also recommended.
The document is a training DVD program on people skills for home brewing. It covers several topics:
1. The change curve model which outlines the typical phases people go through in response to change.
2. An effective team leader model which emphasizes leading people and managing resources to achieve company vision and goals through problem solving processes and communication.
3. Active listening skills including focusing on the speaker, acknowledging what they say, responding to seek clarity, and providing feedback.
4. How to delegate tasks through explaining the purpose, task steps, getting feedback, specifying responsibilities, and setting a review.
5. Training others by telling them what to do, showing them how, letting them try, observing
Creating a client friendly user experience in Drupal 7Five Mile
Slides from the Five Mile Media presentation at the Drupal Show & Tell event held in London on 21 November 2013. Five Mile covered how you can improve the user interface in Drupal 7 to offer your clients a better user experience. Slides include topics such as: providing client dashboards, simplifying toolbar and menus, improving content management, better use of the WYSIWYG, utilising preview.
How scrum teams can excel in a remote settingHina Popal
This session will go over how to make your scrum process friendly for a remote setting. Scrum thrives in settings where everyone is co-located but in the digital world we can not assume that teams working in the same office is the standard. How can Scrum work for your team when its now remote? Its simple! Tailoring the processes to meet your teams needs will allow you to continue working without reinventing the entire wheel. In this talk we will go over what our new remote norm looks like, what scrum is, steps to consider when tailoring, and tips on how to tailor some of the process based off of real world experiences working with remote scrum teams.
This document describes a cloud-based concept creation software called SampleBoard. It has features such as intuitive drag and drop functionality with design tools, access to ColorLovers colors and patterns, the ability to upload and import images from various sources like Pinterest and the web, and export and share concepts via social media, email, Google Drive, and more. The software also allows for folder management to organize work into projects and libraries.
The document outlines Hong Kong regional activities and plans for the third and fourth quarters of 2010 and the first half of 2011 to enhance the brand recognition of CTG overseas, position CTG internationally, and cultivate regional processes. Key activities include seminars, conferences, networking, and leveraging partnerships and social media to generate business leads and interact with markets outside of China. The near-term quarterly goals are to support a seminar in Singapore in November and exhibit at the HKTDC SME Expo in Hong Kong in December.
While the judicial interpretation relates to all enterprises and workers, the new amendment to the Labour Contract Law provides stricter regulations on labour dispatching businesses, with an impact on both labour dispatching agencies and service users.
China Talent Group is going to host a conference, named: New Manpower Forum, in Shanghai (09/6), Beijing (09/14) and Guangzhou (09/21). This is an annual event for CTG user gathering as well as a good opportunity for overseas organizations and partners for networking.
We invited keynote speakers from government, university and corporate client to share insight on the forthcoming manpower issues/regulations
This document reviews the marketing strategy for W1 in Hong Kong. It discusses identifying W1's market positioning and differentiators compared to competitors. The strategy involves expanding distribution channels through malls, direct mailing, and associations. It also recommends focusing on value-added products and services, storytelling, and leveraging technology and celebrities for promotion. The document suggests revisiting the operational model and marketing strategies under changing market conditions and customer preferences.
We invited keynote speakers from government, university and corporate client to share insight on the forthcoming manpower issues/regulations.
Dont miss the opportunities in speaking to CTG executives about Go-to China strategy...
CTG is a technique used to monitor the heartbeat of the fetus and the contractions of the uterus during pregnancy and labor. It involves using ultrasound to track fetal heart rate and strapping a belt around the mother's abdomen to monitor uterine contractions. CTG provides important information to assess fetal well-being and guide decisions during delivery.
though "The future for MNCs in China" report was released in 2012 by KMPG, the content is still valid and shed the light for MNCs planning ahead...what are the key points from the report:
1 Rising labor cost
2 Shortage of Talent
3 Pay-for-performance is not working in China bcos of the Income tax system, ppl prefers low income to take back home.
4 Capital Market has not yet opened.
5 Biz license issue
6 Lack of innovation and management skills for future leaders in China
7 JV - has become popular, cos of license issue (if you cant beat them, join them: MNCs and Local companies leverage each other).
8 Corporate Incentive: tech firm corporate tax 25% to 15%, R&D has 50% bonus reduction.
9 Shared Service and outsourcing
10 Payment and cloud computing
Besides, it's convincing reading the biz leaders insight from different service sector, luxury (Bluebell), legal, Biz centre (the Executive Centre), Outsourcing (Genpact), Apparel (Avery Dennison), Logistics (FedEx), and of course KPMG itself.
English for Presentations: Structuring Your Presentationshumanenglish
Improve your English, attend our free webinars: http://bit.ly/tfeMjw
Learn how the strategies and the language to structure your presentations and present like a pro! You will learn the vocabulary, phrases and pronunciation used by native English speakers to make effective and memorable presentations in English.
This class covers
+ Language used to talk about presentations
+ Some barriers to giving a successful presentation
+ Preparing to give effective presentations
+ Summarizing content
+ The audience's viewpoint-psychological and other factors
Our experience and insight March 2020
Making virtual workshops work
The document discusses lessons learned from facilitating successful virtual workshops. It provides tips for planning virtual workshops, such as preparing an agenda with assigned tasks, designing interactive activities, and having clear roles for coordinators. It also recommends setting expectations for participants, maintaining an outside-in perspective by involving customers and experts, facilitating like being in a physical room, and using technology tools to capture perspectives. An example agenda is provided that incorporated pre-reading, breakout groups, customer interviews, expert presentations, reflection, and implications discussions. The overall message is that with proper planning, virtual workshops can be an effective alternative to in-person sessions.
More and more meeting and training presentations are going to a virtual format. This presentation will provide you with good practices to run a smooth Webinar or virtual meeting. This presentation is applicable regardless of the Webinar platform that you use.
The document provides 10 rules for effective PowerPoint presentations:
1. Write a script before creating slides
2. Only include one main point per slide
3. Avoid long paragraphs of text on slides
4. Pay attention to simple slide design with easy to read fonts and colors
5. Use images sparingly to reinforce points
6. Consider your presentation manner beyond just the slides
7. Open with an intriguing hook to engage the audience
8. Ask questions of the audience to encourage interaction
9. Modulate your voice to keep the presentation lively
10. Be willing to break rules when it enhances the presentation
Agile-Friendly User Research. Nina Belk, UX People, 2013Nina Belk
“It takes too long." "We don’t have the budget." "We don’t really need it, we can just optimise once we’ve gone live.” Sound familiar?
As UX embraces agile as a project delivery approach, research seems get left out in the cold. Rather than shivering and complaining about it though maybe we just need to stick two fingers up to these assumptions and dare to do things a little differently!
In her workshop at UX People, Nina helped delegates explore how to bring research in from the cold on agile projects. There were tips on getting the research basics right (effective participant recruitment and facilitation techniques), and delegates were given the opportunity to road-test their facilitation and analysis skills in an agile-friendly framework (full exercises not available in this presentation).
If you're looking to arm yourself with some practical skills, and a research approach that will blow those assumptions about speed, cost and the lack of value out of the water then this workshop would have been for you, but you'll have to make do with this SlideShare presentation instead!
Planning an effective presentationStudy guideFor a printer-fri.docxrandymartin91030
Planning an effective presentation
Study guide
For a printer-friendly PDF version of this guide, clickhere
This study guide offers you an insight into the process of planning an effective presentation. It focuses on the importance of the presenter's relationship with the audience and suggests key strategies for making an impact.
Other Useful Guides: Delivering an effective presentation, Using visual aids.
What is a effective presentation?
A effective presentation makes the best use of the relationship between the presenter and the audience. It takes full consideration of the audience’s needs in order to capture their interest, develop their understanding, inspire their confidence and achieve the presenter’s objectives.
Careful planning is essential.
Seven stages in planning a presentation
1. Preparation
Many factors affect the design of your presentation. A powerful presenter will acknowledge and address each of the following:
· objectives;
· audience;
· venue;
· remit.
Objectives
Why you are making your presentation? Bear in mind what you want to achieve and what you want your audience to take away with them. Once you have decided upon your objectives, you are in a much better position to make strategic decisions about the design and tone of your presentation. For example, a presentation to a seminar group might require a balanced
argument, whereas a charity appeal might require a more creative approach. Ask yourself:
· what do you want your audience to have understood?
· what action do you want your audience to take following your presentation?
· how can you best design your presentation to meet your objectives?
Audience
Your audience will have a variety of different experiences, interests and levels of knowledge. A powerful presenter will need to acknowledge these and prepare for and respond to them accordingly. Ask yourself:
· how much will your audience already know about your topic?
· how can you link new material to things they might already understand?
· will you need to win them over to a particular point of view?
You may not be able to answer these questions for each member of your audience but you should have enough information to ensure that you have targeted your material at the right level for their needs. This might involve avoiding technical jargon or explaining abstract concepts with clear practical examples. If you fail to consider your audience’s needs, you will fail to appeal to their interest and imagination.
Venue
Where will you be making your presentation? What will the room be like? What
atmosphere will the physical conditions create? A large lecture theatre might create a formal atmosphere. Similarly, a seminar room might create a less formal tone. Ask yourself:
· what kind of atmosphere do you wish to create?
· how might the room arrangement affect your relationship with the audience?
· can you do anything to change the arrangement of the room to suit your
objectives?
· what audio-visual aids can you use?
Remit
You m.
"A scenario is a description of a person’s interaction with a system.
Scenarios help focus design efforts on the user’s requirements, which are distinct from technical or business requirements.
Scenarios may be related to ‘use cases’, which describe interactions at a technical level. Unlike use cases, however, scenarios can be understood by people who do not have any technical background. They are therefore suitable for use during participatory design activities." http://infodesign.com.au/usabilityresources/scenarios/
Get hands-on advice for rapid Agile prototyping in a product team.
You'll learn:
- How to determine the right depth and breadth for MVP prototypes.
- How to prioritize use cases for prototyping.
- How to elicit the right stakeholder and user feedback.
- How to correctly annotate prototypes for dev and QA.
CS-AGRI Presentation and Video Editing Workshop.pdfAuziAsfarian1
This document outlines tips for creating effective presentations and videos to convey projects to audiences. It discusses making elevator pitches to describe projects in one sentence. Product vision statements with four key elements are proposed to enhance these descriptions. Storyboarding is recommended to plan presentation flow. Visuals like diagrams can simplify complex ideas. Slides should be clear, concise and legible while incorporating design principles. Practice and feedback help improve presentations. Videos can be made by converting presentations or using editing software. Proper lighting, composition and post-processing enhance videos. Royalty-free music should be used for audio. Participants practiced making slides and received feedback.
Grant Management Seminar Leaders Guide PowerPoint Template.pptxdiah931095
This document provides instructions for customizing a Rotary-branded PowerPoint template for presenting a grant management seminar. It recommends reviewing session guides to include key ideas and questions, and replacing instructional text on slides with your own. Non-essential slides can be deleted or reordered. Images and videos should come from Rotary's Brand Center and follow data privacy policies.
IDBM x Slush – Service Leadership Minor HandbookIDBMAalto
This document introduces a new blended minor program called the IDBM Service Minor that is designed to seamlessly integrate into students' lives and support their passions. The program aims to provide an inspiring and engaging learning experience outside of the traditional university bubble. It will involve collaborative project work with industry partners over 6 months to gain hands-on experience. The program structure incorporates sessions on topics like high performing teams, diversity, project planning and more to provide learning outcomes focused on skills like design thinking, storytelling and developing a learning framework. Students will document their work in a Service Design Handbook that is intended to guide future cohorts.
The document provides guidance on delivering effective oral presentations. It discusses planning an effective presentation by analyzing the audience, selecting a topic of interest to both the audience and presenter, defining clear objectives, and preparing the introduction, body, and conclusion. The document also offers tips on using voice effectively, choosing an appropriate method of delivery, properly scoping the topic, organizing content, managing time, incorporating visual aids, and displaying good body language.
Planning a Presentation -- Developing Your Communication SkillsMohamed Mahdy
This document provides guidance on planning presentations for managers. It discusses the different types of presentations managers typically give, including to their team, senior management, and other groups. It emphasizes that most management presentations are low-key and focus on informing others or providing updates. While not as flashy as high-impact presentations, these low-key presentations are still important for visibility and career advancement. The document also reviews advantages like interaction and gauging understanding, and disadvantages like only one chance to convey the message. Overall, it provides tips for structuring information efficiently in presentations given time constraints.
This document discusses best practices for creating descriptions and promoting webinars and e-learning events. It recommends including elements like catchy titles, relevance to the audience, length, major points, learning outcomes, prerequisites, and intended audience. Examples of good webinar descriptions are provided. The document also discusses strategies for engagement during webinars like using webcams, planning interactivity, fielding chat questions, and pacing presentations. Lastly, it covers promotion methods like listservs, calendars, social media, timing, and archiving webinars.
UX South West - Engaging clients meaningfully in the process of digital designAlan Colville
Great digital experience happen when we engage clients, not just users, meaningfully in the process of digital design.
This workshop describes techniques, which not only demonstrate the value of UX, but build better client / designer relationships.
The document provides guidance on how to effectively plan a presentation. It discusses 7 key stages: 1) preparing objectives and understanding your audience and venue, 2) choosing 3 main points, 3) selecting supporting evidence, 4) linking points, 5) developing an introduction, 6) crafting a conclusion, and 7) reviewing the presentation. The stages ensure the presentation has a clear structure, logically flows from point to point, and meets the needs of the audience.
This document provides guidelines for creating training content on Trulia University, the company's new training and communication portal. It outlines best practices for supported content types, content creation tips, branding guidelines, and the review process. Authors are given permissions to create and manage their own content. The goal is to provide a consistent and high-quality learning experience for sales associates through the Brainshark e-learning platform. Resources and tutorials are available to help authors effectively utilize Brainshark features.
The document provides tips for designing effective presentations. It notes that presentations come in many forms, from reporting results to management to conference speeches. Good presentations have clear objectives, appropriate content for the time available, and engage the audience. Effective visual materials like slides should enhance the speaker's message, not serve as a script. The document outlines best practices for slide design, including using visuals over text and limiting content to key points. It also advises that handouts expand on the presentation instead of duplicating slides verbatim. Overall, the tips emphasize preparation, clear and concise visual aids, and audience engagement.
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The secret-formula-for-webinar-presentations-that-work-every-time1
1. The Secret Formula for Webinar
Presentations that Work Every Time
by Gihan Perera
www.WebinarSmarts.com
Sponsored by
2. One of the most important factors in your webinar’s success is
the work you put into designing your deck of slides. This is important in any presentation, but
In an online especially so with webinars. In an in-person presentation, you are the main visual for your
audience, and your slides are merely visual aids. But when it comes to a webinar, your slides
presentation, aren’t visual aids; they are the visuals. So put more work into them than you would with an in-
your slides aren’t person presentation.
visual aids; they
ARE the visuals. Of course, your slide deck is just one part of what makes your webinar engaging. But it’s a very
important factor, because your slides play such a prominent role in a webinar.
In this report, we’ll look at how to prepare your slide deck for an effective webinar. This
preparation falls into these two areas:
Sequence: Plan the flow of your material in a logical way
Design: Make the slides look attractive, while optimizing them for online viewing
Think of this as serving both the “left brain” and “right brain” of your audience. The left brain
wants to see a clear structure, a logical flow, and clear progress; while the more emotional right
brain wants visual appeal, engaging slides and appealing to feelings.
All good webinars have an introduction, a body, and a conclusion, so your slide deck will
naturally follow this sequence. But knowing that alone isn’t enough – what you do in each of these
sections matters. In this report, we’ll go through your presentation slides in this order, and also
look at ways of making the slides more attractive for a webinar audience.
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3. Part 1: Build Your Webinar Slide Deck
The Introduction
The introduction of your webinar might only take a few minutes, but it sets the scene – and your
audience’s expectations – for the rest of the webinar.
Title
Start with a title slide, with your webinar title, your name and your photograph (and other
presenters’ names and photographs).
Optionally, you can include other information, such as sponsor names and logos, your contact
information, or logistics information about joining the webinar.
Logistics
Some participants will be new to webinars, so explain to them how a webinar works – for
example, how to ask questions, whether a recording is available, whether you will keep questions
anonymous, and so on.
Even if you are presenting to an audience familiar with webinars, it’s worth including this slide
(although you might only explain it briefly), simply as a reminder.
About the Presenters
Introduce yourself (and other presenters) early in your webinar. Include a slide showing their
name, photograph and relevant credentials, to create a more personal connection with
participants.
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4. For a small group of people you know, you might even consider showing a slide with all the
participants’ names, titles and photographs. This builds rapport, and makes it easier for
participants to interact later.
Overview
Include an overview slide early in your webinar, so participants know how your content is
arranged. For example, if your webinar has four main points, your overview slide simply lists
those points.
Although this can be a very simple slide, it plays an important role, because it shows the audience
the “big picture” for your material. They discover how many points you want to cover, they see
the points, and they can mentally track your progress during the webinar.
As you progress through the webinar, you can repeat this slide with a different section
highlighted each time. This reminds your participants of the overall message, and makes them feel
comfortable about progress.
The Main Content
Although you’ve used many slides in the introduction, it doesn’t take much time during the
webinar – perhaps five minutes at most. Now comes the main content of your webinar, which
Structure the does take most of the time.
slides in a logical
sequence, so your Of course, the slides you create here will depend on your material, and we’ll discuss slide design
main points flow in more detail in the “Make Your Slides More Attractive” section later.
easily and make
However, it’s also important to structure the slides in a logical sequence, so your main points flow
sense to your easily and make sense to your audience. There are many ways to structure your material, and I’ll
participants give you five common methods here.
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5. 1. Timeline
This classic structure often appears in business presentations:
How were things done in the past?
What is the current situation?
What are you proposing for the future?
This structure is particularly useful when your webinar is about
change, or if the underlying environment has changed and your audience doesn't realize it.
2. Geography
Some topics lend themselves to a geographical approach. For instance, if you're describing
something that affects people differently in different parts of the country, you provide a brief
introduction, then talk them through the impact of each of the locations, and then summarize in
your conclusion.
For example, if you're speaking about taking action to address climate change, you could start by
discussing what countries are doing, then individual cities, and finally talk about what individual
participants can do.
3. Problem to Solution
For some topics, it's useful to explain the problem and then describe the solution. In between these
two, also describe the cause and effect. So the structure looks like this:
Problem: What problem is your audience facing?
Cause: What is the underlying cause of that problem?
Effect: How much is this costing them?
Solution: What are you suggesting to fix the problem?
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6. 4. Traffic Lights
If you want your audience to change their behavior, consider the “traffic
lights” approach:
Red: What should they stop doing?
Amber: What should they continue doing?
Green: What should they start doing?
You don’t necessarily have to present them in this order; use whatever seems appropriate for your
material.
5. List
Finally, the most basic structure is to simply list all your points – for example, all digital cameras,
all types of urban renewal, all food groups – and address each in turn. This isn’t a particularly
interesting structure for your audience (nor for you!). So only use it if you’re sure there’s no better
option available.
Even within this structure, look for ways to organize it in more interesting ways. For example, if
you’re discussing digital cameras, you can group them by manufacturer, feature list or history.
Depending on your purpose and audience, one choice might be more interesting than the others.
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7. Audience Interaction
Don’t wait until the end of your webinar for audience interaction. As part of your preparation,
design specific points for interaction, and show slides at those points to prompt your audience.
Q&A
When you plan to stop for questions, insert a Q&A slide in your presentation at this point, so it’s
clear to the audience that you are waiting. This is more effective than simply asking “Any
questions?” while still showing the previous slide.
The exception to this rule is that if you’re asking for questions about the content of the previous
slide, it sometimes helps to have that slide visible while answering questions.
You can, of course, stop for questions at other times, depending on your audience needs and the
flow of the webinar. However, it’s useful to schedule some specific times for questions as part of
your preparation.
Polls
When you stop for an audience poll, insert a slide with the poll question on it. You show this slide
first, briefly describe the poll, and then launch the poll in the webinar software.
This is better than launching the poll immediately, because you get the chance to add any specific
instructions before people respond to the poll. It’s also useful if you have somebody else
managing the polls, because they know exactly when they need to launch them for you.
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8. The Conclusion
Reinforce your For many people, the start and end of a presentation can be the most memorable sections. So plan
your concluding slides carefully, to reinforce your main message and encourage your participants
main message to take action.
and encourage
participants to Summary
take action
In the same way you started the webinar’s main content with an overview slide, end the main
content with a summary slide. This could be as simple as repeating the overview slide (which
elegantly “bookends” the content), or it could be a separate slide with a summary of your main
points.
Action Plan
If your webinar ends with a specific action plan, show a slide summarizing that plan, so you can
talk through it step by step.
Although this might be a very simple slide, it’s very important, because everything you have done
so far in the webinar leads up to this point. So spend some time designing the content on this
slide, to ensure it’s clear, simple and easy to follow.
If the action plan has more than 2 or 3 steps, design the slide as a “build”, so each step appears on
the screen as you talk about it (More about this later in the section about slide design).
Some webinars don’t end with a specific action plan, because their main purpose is to inform or
educate. If this is the case, and you want your audience to choose their own actions after the
webinar, use a slide that asks each participant to reflect on the webinar and decide what action
they will take.
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9. What Next?
Add a final slide that clearly explains what happens next – for example, the recording, handouts,
follow-up surveys, and so on. Even if you’ve mentioned this earlier in the webinar, include it on
this slide as a reminder.
This slide also clearly indicates to the audience that the webinar has ended.
Don’t end your webinar by asking “Any more questions?” If there are no questions, the webinar
just peters out; and if you get difficult or off-topic questions, the webinar drags on.
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10. Part 2: Make Your Slides More Attractive
When you start to design the slides for your webinar, keep in mind that everything you show in
your webinar has to be sent across the Internet to your participants. Even though most of them
will have broadband access, it doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll have very fast access.
Simplify your This means some highly visual things – including large photographs, slide transitions, animations
and video – may take a while to load. So work diligently to simplify your slides as much as
slides so they are possible so they are sent efficiently to your participants.
sent efficiently
over the Internet When designing your slides, let’s first consider two styles that are ineffective, and then look at
three better options.
Poor slide design
Don’t create slides with lots of text or just a list of bullet points. They aren’t engaging and often
haven’t been thought through carefully.
As an example, if you were showing Stephen Covey’s well-known “seven habits of highly
effective people”, many presenters would simply list them on a slide as a bullet list. Even if the
bullets are grouped in a logical way, the slide is plain and boring, and doesn’t do anything to
engage the audience.
Sadly, that style is far too common, and thousands of audience members have been forced to sit
through presentations with dozens of boring slides in this style (or worse). In an in-person
presentation, they might sit politely and silently, simply because it’s rude to walk out; but in a
webinar, they will simply switch off and turn to more important tasks.
However, don’t go to the other extreme and use full-slide photographs. That’s a more modern
style, which works well for in-person presentations, but doesn’t work well in webinars. When the
webinar platform comes to this slide, it has to transmit a lot of information across the Internet
(because photographs are very detailed). Even at current broadband speeds, that can cause a delay
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11. of 5-10 seconds before your audience members see the slide. Although that might not sound like
much, a 10-second delay can be very disconcerting and annoying to your audience.
Effective slide design
So if you don’t want to bore them with bullet points and slow them with big photographs, what
can you do instead? Here are three options.
1. One point per slide
One option is to just put each bullet point on a separate slide. In our example, instead of listing all
seven “habits of highly effective people” on one slide, you spread them out over seven slides.
This might not look like much of an improvement, because the slides have the same content as the
bullet points. However, you are changing the slides regularly, so your webinar audience sees new
things. The slides are still quite plain, but at least they do change. This keeps your audience on
their toes, and encourages them to keep watching your presentation.
2. Visually arrange bullet points
Another option is to present a slide with multiple points, but in a way that’s more visually
attractive than just a set of bullet points. You provide exactly the same information as the slide
with bullet points, but in a much more attractive way. This is not only for the visual appeal, but to
help the audience see how the points fit together logically.
Although it might seem like a lot of work to create this sort of slide, it’s easy if you use the “Smart
Art” feature of PowerPoint (This feature is available on recent versions of PowerPoint for both PC
and Mac). You simply start with a list of bullet points, and then use Smart Art to convert it into a
more visually appealing form. It only takes a minute or two to convert a bullet list to Smart Art,
and this small amount of extra work is worthwhile, because it makes a dramatic difference to the
slide’s visual appeal.
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12. 3. Add small graphics
You can improve this even further by adding graphics to the slide, to further reinforce the
material. Some of the Smart Art options include placeholders for you to insert your graphics, so
again this takes only a few minutes for each slide.
Of course, choose meaningful (not purely decorative) graphics that enhance or reinforce the text
on the slide.
If you don’t have suitable graphics available, you can buy them from sites like iStockphoto.com,
which provide a large collection of photographs at very reasonable prices (a few dollars each).
Other Design Tips
If your typical presentation slides are full of bullet points, the advice I’ve given you already will
make a big difference. Here are some additional tips to improve your slides so they work well in a
webinar.
Fix the background
Remove any graphics in the backgrounds of your slides. A plain one-color background is best – no
graphics, no textures, no company logo, not even a decorative pattern. It doesn’t matter what color
you choose, as long as it’s a single color throughout. That way, the webinar software can compress
it into a small packet for sending via the Internet.
Stop movement
Carefully examine all other animation, even if it’s there for functional purposes, and consider how
to remove it. The less animation you use, the faster your slides will load.
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13. “Build” slides
There is one type of animation that is acceptable – and very useful – for webinar slides, and that is
“Build” complex the idea of a “build” or a “reveal”. This is simply where you keep adding bits to a slide as you talk
slides to add about it.
understanding
and for fast For example, here’s a four-part sequence from one of my presentations, which builds a four-stage
model in steps:
display
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14. As you can see, the final slide is quite detailed and could be difficult for the audience to grasp at
first glance. That’s why I build it up in four steps. Because each step is simply adding to what’s
already there, the software only has to transmit the bits that have changed on the screen each time
– and that’s quite fast.
Remove transitions
Transitions between slides are almost always unnecessary, and they will slow down the webinar,
so remove them. It doesn’t matter how simple or complex the transitions are; they all involve
movement, and that’s the killer as far as webinar speed goes.
Be especially careful if you’re using the presentation tool Prezi, which allows you to zoom around
a “mind map” of your topic. It looks very impressive in an in-person presentation, but it’s terrible
for webinar use.
Shrink pictures
Photographs and pictures add interest and keep your audience engaged. However, as we’ve
discussed earlier, they also slow down the webinar.
Fortunately, there’s a happy balance: Keep the pictures, but make them smaller so they are sent
more quickly over the Internet. Simply make the picture smaller, so the rest of the slide is just one
solid color – which loads much faster.
Eliminate other waste
If something is on a slide purely for decorative purposes, remove it. As mentioned above, this
applies especially to photographs, which are often used to add impact to a message. It also applies
to other elements on your slides, such as:
Grid lines on a graph or chart (if they are needed, it usually means your graph is too complex)
3-d effects, such as reflections and shadows
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15. Fancy borders around boxes
You don’t have to eliminate every such effect in every slide. Just focus on the most glaring
examples.
Use line drawings
An even better option, if appropriate, is to use clip art, icons and shapes rather than photographs.
By combining shapes, arrows and small photographs, you can create visually appealing slides that
load quickly. Here are two examples:
There are many professional icon collections available – search Google for “royalty free clip art”
and “royalty free icons.”
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16. What Next?
When you first read the advice in this report, you might think that designing an effective slide
deck takes hours of effort for every webinar. However, this doesn’t have to be the case, for a
number of reasons:
Invest time in
When you learn to use Smart Art in PowerPoint, the task of designing attractive slides
designing an
becomes easy, because you simply start with bullet lists and convert them instantly to
effective slide attractive graphics.
deck – and you Over time, you’ll build up a library of common slides you can re-use in future webinars.
will be more Over time, you also build up a collection of photographs, drawings and icons you can re-use in
professional and future webinars.
more engaging Remember that your slides are not just visual aids for your webinar; they are the visuals. So to
make your webinars more professional and engaging, invest time in planning and designing an
effective slide deck.
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17. About the Author
Gihan Perera is a consultant, speaker and author, who helps professional
speakers, trainers, coaches, consultants, thought leaders and other
business professionals to leverage their products, services and business
practices – particularly with their online strategy.
He uses webinars a lot now, for sales presentations, educational
workshops, preliminary and follow-up sessions for training courses,
individual and group mentoring, recording podcasts, and more.
He is the author of the books Secrets of Internet Business Success; Low Cost
Promotion; Write Now; Get Traffic Fast; Write Profitable E-Books; Magnetic Messages; Best Practice
Conference Calls; Webinar Smarts; Web Sites for Speakers, Trainers, Coaches and Consultants; Fast, Flat
and Free and Out of Office. He has also published numerous e-books and audio products on
effective Web sites, e-learning and success with information products.
Find out more at www.WebinarSmarts.com.
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