Presentation
Skills
What do you want?
A receptive audience
Keep them awake
Get your message across
Get them to buy into your idea
Send them away inspired
Who is this about?
Your Audience
Not You
Minimise Distractions
Fidgeting
Own your Space
Instil Confidence
Its not about your fear its about not showing it
What do you want?
• Know your Audience:
• Research them in advance if possible
• Learn what they expect to gain form your
presentation
• Understand their background and needs
Why should they listen to you
• Instil confidence
- Body language
- Tone
• Relevance
- read your audience
- keep them interested
- Bring them on a journey
- Make them laugh
Communication
 Eye Contact
 Nodding to listen
Facial Gestures
 Posture
 Arms
 Volume
 Stance
 Intonation
6
Body Language
Voice
Most people don’t spend time working on the
“non content” elements of their communication.
Killer Opening
‘Jason Teteak ruletheroom.com’
5 Step Formula
• Give a confident Introduction
 Stand Still don’t show your fear

Introduce yourself bringing your inflection
down to show confidence.
5 Step Formula
• Give your credentials
X
Just your title and years of experience

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

Who you are
Why you are the best person to deliver the presentation
What you have to offer them
Identify a problem and offer the solution
Finding the Hook
Finding the Hook
3. Make you audience captivated and
feeling something
Happier
Success
Freedom
Finding the Hook
• Why they want it?
• What will it do for them?
 Look at what you are delivering
 How will it make them:
 More successful
 More happy
 More freedom
Topic
S,H,F
How?
Summarise in one sentence
The Take Away
• Shows what they get to take away
• Write out an agenda telling your story
• Each section should tell an element of your story
x Don’t read the slide
 Summarise
 Paraphrase the goal of your presentation
You can repeat your agenda slide at the start of each new item by
highlight where you are and to show that your presentation is on
track.
Give a Credible Opening Statement
5. Give relevant or compelling data to
support your statement.
Topic
Be familiar and comfortable with your topic
Focus
90%
Audience
10%
Presentation
IT IS NOT ALL ABOUT YOU!
Ice Breakers
•
•
•
•
To engage everyone
Lets them know they are part of the experience
They matter
Eases tension
Use games and exercises as appropriate to embed
the learning and to keep your audience motivated.
Telling Your Story
Telling Your Story
Where we
are now
What needs to
change to
get there
What could be
After studying hundreds of speeches, I’ve found that the most effective presenters use
the same techniques as great storytellers: By reminding people of the status quo and
then revealing the path to a better way, they set up a conflict that needs to be resolved.
That tension helps them persuade the audience to adopt a new mindset or behave
differently — to move from what is to what could be. And by following Aristotle’s threepart story structure (beginning, middle, end), they create a message that’s easy to
digest, remember, and retell. Nancy Duarte’s Harvard Business Review
The Beginning
• Describe life as your audience knows it
• Create a bond
• Makes people receptive to your message
• Then Introduce the vision
theThe
middle.
Middle
‘Play up the difference between what is and what could
be. As you move back and forth between what is and
what could be, the audience will find the latter more
and more alluring’
Nancy Duarte’s Harvard Business Review
• Where you want you audience to be at the
The
Happy
Ever
After
end
• The call to action
• How much better things will be
• Set clear markers throughout
• Personalise
• Inspire
• Engage
Check List
Be prepared - Arrive early and check all equipment
Have your Killer Opening
Use confident body language - make eye contact, move
around, and use some gestures
Reiterate core message and keep focus
Vary pitch and tone of speech at key points
Start and finish on time
Conclude strongly with tangible takeaways.
Invite questions
Enjoy the applause!
for
YOUR slides
PowerPoint & Slides
Careful consideration when designing
slides in PowerPoint
Tips in using PowerPoint
Example using PowerPoint
Presented by:
Date:
Thomas McArdle
12/09/2015
Facts about
& Slides
PowerPoint is a
software presentation
package developed
by Microsoft.
Visually conveys
the
speaker’s message.
PowerPoint helps to:
Visualise ideas
Create key points
Impress
Presentation medium
not a
reading medium
PowerPoint was launched
25 years ago
How many installations?
1,000,000,000
Software Presentation Market Share
95%
0%
100%
PowerPoint Users Worldwide
500
Million
120 Million
Business and Educational
PowerPoint Daily Usage
Number of presentations
created each day *
Number going on right now *
* estimate
PowerPoint Daily Usage
Number of presentations
created each day *
30 Million
Number going on right now *
1 Million
* estimate
Your audience will
remember 3 main things
Get the main point across
in
7 seconds
7
Use appropriate design
Corporate Restrictions
Expert in Topic
Complexity of Message
Consider when
designing slides in
Death by PowerPoint
Test
Too much text
Too much text
It is a document.
Too many bullet points
Here is a bulleted list
• This is the first bullet point.
• Here we have a second.
• This naturally is the third bullet point.
o and sub bullets
- and the next level bullets
• Oh look! another bullet point.
• This is where the next one goes.
• If your still awake, this is the last one
and all the space has been used up.
Too many bullet points
Bullets don’t kill people,
people kill people with
bullets. Be careful when
using bullets.
Detailed Charts/Graphs
Students Studying Languages
French
German
Latin
Spanish
Greek
Italian
Chinese
Japanese
1%
3%
2%
2%
8%
2%
40%
10%
2%
30%
Russian
Arabic
Detailed Charts/Graphs
Reveals all
information, audience
starts to interpret,
may cause them to
ignore your analysis
behind the data.
Font size too small
So does font size: 12
So does font size: 24
So does font size: 36
So does font size: 48
Font size too small
Same template & logo throughout
Same template & logo throughout
Thomas
Thomas
Thomas
Thomas
Thomas
Thomas
CONSIDER
Thomas
Thomas
One Logo
Limit use of Clip Art!
Limit use of Clip Art!
Cut the Clip Art
Put a Cap on CAPS
Not inherently harder to read,
but most of what we read is case sensitive.
The use of uppercase can be perceived as
SHOUTING.
If the checklist looks familiar, your
presentation could use some help
Tips for designing
presentations in
Text
Text
Text
Text
Less is more
Do not use the slide as a document
This is a document.
This is a document.
This is a document.
This is a document.
This is a document.
This is a document.
This is
visually
engaging
It lets your audience listen to you.
Break up your bullet points into separate slides
• Instead of writing
everything on one
slide like this
• Instead of writing
everything on one
slide like this
Slide 1
Slide 2
Break it up!
Break it up!
Glance test:
Comprehend a slide in
7 seconds.
Treat your content like a
billboard message.
Make the point quickly.
Keep it simple, which is not that
simple.
1 thought
per slide
Info-
graphics
are amazing
90%
Audience
10%
Presentation
10%
copy
90%
wont copy
Simple
Infographic
Boring
Pie Chart?
Images
say more
than a
thousand
words
You cannot
choose your
neighbours
Working example
using
Sketchbubble.com next 18 slides
How to Polish
your Document
into Beautiful
Slide ?
Presentation Definition
A presentation is the process of presenting a topic to an audience. It is typically a
demonstration, lecture, or speech meant to inform, persuade, or build good will. The term can also
be used for a formal or ritualized introduction or offering, as with the presentation of a debutante.
Definition :
•
•
•
•
•
The process of offering for consideration or display
A social introduction, as of a person at court
A demonstration, lecture, or welcoming speech
A manner or style of speaking, instructing or putting oneself forward
The manner of presenting, esp the organization of visual details to create an overall impression
A presentation program, such as Microsoft PowerPoint, Apple Keynote, OpenOffice.org Impress
or Prezi, is often used to generate the presentation content. Modern internet-based presentation
software, such as the presentation application in Google Docs and SlideRocket also allow
presentations to be developed collaboratively by geographically disparate collaborators.
Presentation viewers can be used to combine content from different presentation programs into
one presentation.
Presentation Definition
A presentation is the process of presenting a topic to an audience. It is typically a
demonstration, lecture, or speech meant to inform, persuade, or build good will. The term can also
be used for a formal or ritualized introduction or offering, as with the presentation of a debutante.
Definition :
•
•
•
•
•
The process of offering for consideration or display
A social introduction, as of a person at court
A demonstration, lecture, or welcoming speech
A manner or style of speaking, instructing or putting oneself forward
The manner of presenting, esp the organization of visual details to create an overall impression
A presentation program, such as Microsoft PowerPoint, Apple Keynote, OpenOffice.org Impress
or Prezi, is often used to generate the presentation content. Modern internet-based presentation
software, such as the presentation application in Google Docs and SlideRocket also allow
presentations to be developed collaboratively by geographically disparate collaborators.
Presentation viewers can be used to combine content from different presentation programs into
one presentation.
Presentation Definition
A presentation is the process of presenting a topic to an audience. It is typically a
demonstration, lecture, or speech meant to inform, persuade, or build good will.
The term can also be used for a formal or ritualized introduction or offering, as
with the presentation of a debutante.
Definition :
•
•
•
•
•
The process of offering for consideration or display
A social introduction, as of a person at court
A demonstration, lecture, or welcoming speech
A manner or style of speaking, instructing or putting oneself forward
The manner of presenting, esp the organization of visual details to create an
overall impression
Presentation Definition
A presentation is the process of presenting a topic to an audience. It is typically a
demonstration, lecture, or speech meant to inform, persuade, or build good will.
The term can also be used for a formal or ritualized introduction or offering, as
with the presentation of a debutante.
Definition :
•
•
•
•
•
The process of offering for consideration or display
A social introduction, as of a person at court
A demonstration, lecture, or welcoming speech
A manner or style of speaking, instructing or putting oneself forward
The manner of presenting, esp the organization of visual details to create an
overall impression
Presentation Definition
A presentation is the process of presenting a topic to an audience. It is typically a
demonstration, lecture, or speech meant to inform, persuade, or build good will.
The term can also be used for a formal or ritualized introduction or offering, as
with the presentation of a debutante.
Definition :
•
•
•
•
•
The process of offering for consideration or display
A social introduction, as of a person at court
A demonstration, lecture, or welcoming speech
A manner or style of speaking, instructing or putting oneself forward
The manner of presenting, esp the organization of visual details to create an
overall impression
Presentation Definition
A presentation is the process of presenting a
topic to an audience. It is typically a
demonstration, lecture, or speech meant to
inform, persuade, or build good will. The term
can also be used for a formal or ritualized
introduction or offering, as with the
presentation of a debutante.
Presentation Definition
A presentation is the process of presenting a topic to an
audience. It is typically a
• demonstration,
• lecture, or
• speech meant to inform,
• persuade,
• or build good will.
The term can also be used for a formal or ritualized
introduction or offering, as with the presentation of a
debutante.
Presentation Definition
A presentation is the process of presenting a topic to an audience. It is
typically a
DEMONSTRATION
LECTURE
SPEECH
PERSUADE
BUILD GOOD WILL
PRESENTATION DEFINITION
A presentation is the process of presenting a topic to an audience. It is
typically a
DEMONSTRATION
LECTURE
SPEECH
PERSUADE
BUILD GOOD WILL
PRESENTATION DEFINITION
A presentation is the process of presenting a topic to an audience. It is
typically :
DEMONSTRATION
LECTURE
SPEECH
PERSUADE
BUILD GOOD WILL
Presentation
• The process of offering for consideration or
display
• A social introduction, as of a person at court
• A demonstration, lecture, or welcoming speech
• A manner or style of speaking, instructing or
putting oneself forward
• The manner of presenting, esp the organization
of visual details to create an overall impression
PRESENTATION
The process of offering for
consideration or display
A social introduction, as of a
person at court
A demonstration, lecture, or
welcoming speech
A manner or style of speaking,
instructing or putting oneself
forward
The manner of presenting, esp the
organization of visual details to
create an overall impression
PRESENTATION
The process of offering for
consideration or display
A social introduction, as of
a person at court
A demonstration, lecture, or
welcoming speech
A manner or style of speaking,
instructing or putting oneself
forward
The manner of presenting, esp the
organization of visual details to
create an overall impression
PRESENTATION
The process of offering for
consideration or display
A social introduction, as of
a person at court
A demonstration, lecture, or
welcoming speech
A manner or style of speaking,
instructing or putting oneself
forward
The manner of presenting, esp the
organization of visual details to
create an overall impression
PRESENTATION
The process of offering for
consideration or display
A social introduction, as of
a person at court
A demonstration, lecture, or
welcoming speech
A manner or style of speaking,
instructing or putting oneself
forward
The manner of presenting, esp the
organization of visual details to
create an overall impression
Presentation Definition
A presentation is the process of presenting a topic to an audience. It is typically a
demonstration, lecture, or speech meant to inform, persuade, or build good will. The term can also
be used for a formal or ritualized introduction or offering, as with the presentation of a debutante.
Definition :
•
•
•
•
•
The process of offering for consideration or display
A social introduction, as of a person at court
A demonstration, lecture, or welcoming speech
A manner or style of speaking, instructing or putting oneself forward
The manner of presenting, esp the organization of visual details to create an overall impression
A presentation program, such as Microsoft PowerPoint, Apple Keynote, OpenOffice.org Impress
or Prezi, is often used to generate the presentation content. Modern internet-based presentation
software, such as the presentation application in Google Docs and SlideRocket also allow
presentations to be developed collaboratively by geographically disparate collaborators.
Presentation viewers can be used to combine content from different presentation programs into
one presentation.
PRESENTATION DEFINITION
A presentation is the process of presenting a topic to an audience. It is
typically :
DEMONSTRATION
LECTURE
SPEECH
PERSUADE
BUILD GOOD WILL
PRESENTATION
The process of offering for
consideration or display
A social introduction, as of
a person at court
A demonstration, lecture, or
welcoming speech
A manner or style of speaking,
instructing or putting oneself
forward
The manner of presenting, esp the
organization of visual details to
create an overall impression
SUMMARY
Visualise
Key Points
Keep it simple
Impress
SUMMARY
Mixed Text to a Minimum (36 pt.)
Separate Slides
Creativity Flow
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