Life hacking your presentation preparation
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This document outlines a 5-step process for preparing an effective presentation: 1) Determine your topic, 2) Select 3 supporting points and evidence, 3) Draft an introduction, 4) Draft a conclusion, 5) Name a catchy title. It uses preparing a presentation on bicycle helmets as an example. The process emphasizes determining the topic, finding supporting evidence, and crafting an introduction, conclusion, and title to attract the audience. It also recommends practicing presentations by filming yourself and getting feedback to improve delivery and credibility over multiple rounds. Joining a Toastmasters club provides opportunities for regular practice and feedback on different types of presentations.
Life hacking your presentation preparation
- 1. Life-hacking Your Presentation Preparation Stanley Lee UBC IEEE Toastmasters Club
- 2. About the Presenter Current Club President Founding charter member Membership w/ diverse backgrounds IEEE = Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (the UBC Student Branch is a sponsor) Professionally: writer and college success consultant
- 3. Benefits of This Workshop Simplified procedures Effective content and delivery Time efficiency
- 4. Overall Procedure Content Preparation (50%) Practice (50%)
- 5. Content Preparation (in 5 Simple Steps)
- 6. Step 1: Determine Your Topic Dont rush to confirm on the title yet Same goes for your take-home message in introduction and conclusion Answer this question (feel free to refine later in the process): What do you want to talk about?
- 7. Step 1: Determine Your Topic As an example for this workshop, pretend the topic is chosen to be bicycle helmets
- 8. Step 2: Select Supporting Points List 3 supporting points for your presentation (listeners can only remember that many points) Add supporting evidence with sufficient citations to clarify, emphasize, and prove the fact/idea it supports Support material including statistics, testimony, examples/stories/anecdotes, visual aids, facts
- 9. Step 2: Select Supporting Points Topic: bicycle helmets Supporting points Safety research and statistics showing helmets benefits Studies of traffic accidents involving cyclists in jurisdiction w/ regulations vs. those w/o regulations Australian study of mandatory regulations (http://www.cycle- helmets.com/helmet_damage.html) Common sense cyclists
- 10. Step 3: Draft an Introduction You want to pique the interest from your audience on your topic You want to make sure its short but memorable Examples: question or challenging statement, quotation or story, display object or image, statistics
- 11. Step 3: Draft an Introduction Topic: bicycle helmets Introduction: Arguments about bicycle helmets are not as straight-forward as you think Supporting points Safety research and statistics showing helmets benefits Studies of traffic accidents involving cyclists in jurisdiction w/ regulations vs. those w/o regulations Australian study of mandatory regulations (http://www.cycle- helmets.com/helmet_damage.html) Common sense cyclists
- 12. Step 4: Draft a Conclusion What behaviors do you want your audience to change as a result of your presentation, if anything?
- 13. Step 4: Draft a Conclusion Topic: bicycle helmets Introduction: Arguments about bicycle helmets are not as straight-forward as you think Supporting points Safety research and statistics showing helmets benefits Studies of traffic accidents involving cyclists in jurisdiction w/ regulations vs. those w/o regulations Australian study of mandatory regulations (http://www.cycle- helmets.com/helmet_damage.html) Common sense cyclists Conclusion: Just b/c you wear helmets doesnt mean youre immune to serious injury. But not wearing one will surely jeopardize your head if you run into an accident.
- 14. Step 5: Name a Catchy Title Why? You need it to attract your audience! Typical ways to attract them: Benefit providing (audience attend b/c your talk has something to offer for them) Controversy (theres minimal difference between audience who react positively and negatively with respect to attracting attention)
- 15. Step 5: Name a Catchy Title Topic: bicycle helmets Title: Helmets does not Equal Injury Immunity Introduction: Arguments about bicycle helmets are not as straight-forward as you think Supporting points Safety research and statistics showing helmets benefits Studies of traffic accidents involving cyclists in jurisdiction w/ regulations vs. those w/o regulations Australian study of mandatory regulations (http://www.cycle- helmets.com/helmet_damage.html) Common sense cyclists Conclusion: Just b/c you wear helmets doesnt mean youre immune to serious injury. But not wearing one will surely jeopardize your head if you run into an accident.
- 16. Overall Procedure Content Preparation (50%) Practice (50%)
- 17. Practice
- 18. Practice: General Tips Separate content preparation and practice into its own work sessions maximize your attention Film your practice session with a camera (e.g. camcorder, digital point-and-shoot camera, smartphones)
- 19. Practice: General Tips Critique areas of improvement to improve your credibility Repeat the process for the next round of practices on a different session (ideally different days, at the minimum after a meal break)
- 20. Overall Procedure Content Preparation (50%) Practice (total: 50%) First round (30%) Second round (15%) Third round (2.5%) And so on
- 21. About the Club Its one thing to learn the techniques of this workshop Execution quality is a different matter (public speaking is like personal fitness) You can have the opportunity to practice the different types of speaking (e.g. job interviews, keynote presentations, sales pitches, etc.) on a regular basis with peer feedback during weekly club meetings
- 22. About the Club Details: Where? Fred Kaiser Building, Room 2020/2030 When? Mondays, 15:00 to 16:00 Also check out other clubs by going to www.d21toastmasters.ca
- 23. Supplementary Material If you leave your email after this workshop, you will receive the following supplementary material electronically (regardless whether you join the club or not): Presentation planning worksheet for the example Blank presentation planning worksheet for your own presentations (for projects or research thesis)
- 24. Questions?