Avoid a Snooze Fest Caused by Your Presentation
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This document provides tips for preparing and delivering engaging presentations. It discusses how to avoid boring presentations by connecting with the audience, telling a story with facts rather than just opinions or data, focusing the presentation, simplifying slides, not reading slides, and being interested in the topic. The key aspects of preparation identified are understanding the audience, structuring the presentation with a clear beginning, middle, end and transformation point, and including relevant facts to back up the story. Proper preparation and showing enthusiasm are emphasized as critical to an effective presentation.
Avoid a Snooze Fest Caused by Your Presentation
- 1. 息Jo McRell 2011 Tips for Setting Up a Good Delivery
- 2. 息Jo McRell 2011 Has This Ever Happened to You?
- 3. 息Jo McRell 2011 Top 7 Reasons Your Presentation Is Boring 1. No connection with the audience 2. Its just data, no story 3. Its just opinion, no facts 4. No focus 5. Your slides are too busy 6. Youre reading from your slides 7. Youre not interested in your presentation
- 4. 息Jo McRell 2011 How Do You Fix It? Preparationyes, damn it. You have to. Show some enthusiasm
- 5. 息Jo McRell 2011 Why Do You Need Preparation? I run on the road, long before I dance under the lights. - Muhammad Ali
- 6. 息Jo McRell 2011 How Do You Get Prepared? Who is your audience? 20-year veterans subject experts hungover conference goers recent grads
- 7. 息Jo McRell 2011 How Do You Get Prepared? What do they care about? 20-year veterans subject experts hungover conference goers recent grads
- 8. 息Jo McRell 2011 How Do You Get Prepared? How can you connect? 20-year veterans subject experts hungover conference goers recent grads
- 9. 息Jo McRell 2011 Beginning Middle End How Do You Get Prepared? What is the structure for your story? What is the transformation point? Transformation Point sum of parts, or proven successes, etc. that best delivers the punchline Building Credibility Catching Interest Always start with what the audience cares about most. It may not be you!
- 10. 息Jo McRell 2011 How Do You Get Prepared? What are the facts that back up your story? Data are the supporting points of the story, not the story. Beginning Middle End Example, Shocking data, Interesting facts Data trends, Multiple examples Example of bad situation made good with supporting facts/data Its not just good; its vital!
- 11. 息Jo McRell 2011 How Do You Get Prepared? What is the call to action? Make it clear what you want the audience to do at the end of your presentation. Beginning Middle End Show me the money!
- 12. 息Jo McRell 2011 No Enthusiasm = Snooze Fest Bueller Bueller
- 13. 息Jo McRell 2011 Show Some Enthusiasm! If youre not interested in your presentation, WHY would your audience be?
- 14. 息Jo McRell 2011 See. You actually made it to the end. Use responsibly. Well prepared presentations may elicit interested questions and incite audience members to action.