4 tips and how to improve your presentations for a Mexican audience

2. Objectives
To Identify 3 cultural diferences that make Mexican
audiences unique.
To reflex on: It is my content adecuate for a Mexican
audience.
To obtain a power point temple for my own
presentations.

3. Topics
 Module 1.- 3 Things to take in to consideration…
When creating Webinars for a Mexican audience.
Main title of your Webinar and time for personal
presentation. (Change your topics and erease this box).

4.  Module 1.- 3 Things to take in to consideration…
 Presentation.
 Be your self.
Topics
 Stay away from religion and mothers.
 Create a foreword bullet point list.

5. Onword
 Presentation.
 Who am I?
 Why I can teach you this?

6. My name is Cristo Leon I am a Social Media Consultant
Presentation.
and Webinar Trainer.
For the past 2 years I have had the bliss of teach social media courses using
the WebEx training platform and I love it. I taught over 300 hrs in 2012 for
small business and big corporations all over Mexico.

7.  Module 1.- 3 Things to take in to consideration…
 Presentation.
 Be your self.
Topics
 Stay away from religion and mothers.
 Create a foreword bullet point list.

8. Be your self.
Mexican sense of humor is hard to grasp, but we really appreciate a good
joke. Even in high level corporate firms a good sense of humor it is always
welcome. Why is it hard to get the Mexican sense of humor? Because we
make fun of everything, we don´t take things so serious, we even make fun
of death!

9. It is a complex cultural concept to explain in a few words, I will strongly
recommend you to read; Octavio Paz. (2008). The Labyrinth of Solitude.
Penguin Modern Clasics.
Be your self.

10.  Module 1.- 3 Things to take in to consideration…
 Presentation.
 Be your self.
Topics
 Stay away from religion and mothers.
 Create a foreword bullet point list.

11. Stay away from religion and mothers.
We are family and religious orientated culture, we make fun of everything,
but we highly respect females, I know, you will say Mexicans are machist,
and yes we are! But we have in general a high respect for the mother figure,
specially the mother figure, just double check that your presentation does
not include any of these topics.
In 2002 the movie “El crimen del
padre Amaro” got censor because it
presented the story of a priest that fall
in love.

12.  Module 1.- 3 Things to take in to consideration…
 Presentation.
 Be your self.
Topics
 Stay away from religion and mothers.
 Create a foreword bullet point list.

13. Create a foreword bullet point list.
We are always late! (Oh how this drive
Americans crazy!) that is not to say that it is ok
to be late, and actually a lot of Mexicans in USA
are never late (it is amazing!) but back in Mexico
we really don´t have the same concept of time.
Been on time could be 5-10min after the set time,
even 15 min, and been late goes up to 30-45min,
they will came in to the room make in up 10
excuses on why they are late, and believe it or
not for us it is ok.

14. Create a foreword bullet point list.

15. Create a foreword bullet point list.
I regularly make my presentations with an
onword-foreword at the beginning and at the
end of each chapter as reminders just in case
that someone is late, that way they can
understand where we are.
You´ll see the foreword on the next page.

16.  Module 1.- 4 Things to take in to
consideration…
 We review how to make our presentation.
Foreword
 We discuss Mexican sense of humor and how to
be your self.
 We understand the importance of stay away
from religion and mothers.
 We are seeing how to Create a foreword bullet
point list.

17. References.
 Paz, O. (2008). The laberinth of solitude. Penguin Modern Clasics, recover the
oct/03/2012 from http://www.amazon.com/Labyrinth-Solitude-Penguin-Modern-
Classics/dp/0141188472/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1349287187&sr=8-1-
spell&keywords=Octavio+Paz.+%282008%29.+The+Labyrinth+of+Solitude.+Penguin+M
odern+Clasics.
 Hella, H. A. (2012). Octavio Paz turning others into nobody, recover the oct/03/2012 from
http://hellaheaven-ana.blogspot.com/2012/07/octavio-paz-on-turning-others-into.html
 Batres, J. (2011). El crimen del padre Amaro, película prohibida por la iglesia católica,
recover the oct/03/2012 from http://www.protegeatushijos.org/inicio/2011/3/11/el-
crimen-del-padre-amaro-pelicula-prohibida-por-iglesia-cat.html#.UGx_LJhmLSg
 Leon, C. (2012). Twiter/cristoleon_ , recover the oct/03/2012 from
https://twitter.com/cristoleon_
 Leon, C. (2012). Wordpress. Webinar: 4 tips on How to create presentations for a Mexican
audience | SMO Webex, recover the oct/03/2012 from
http://cristoleon.wordpress.com/2012/10/03/webinar-4-tips-on-how-to-create-
presentations-for-a-mexican-audience-smo-webex/