Anyone good at presentations
Discussion
Hi Folks
I have to do a 10 min presentation max 10 slides on one of three topics:
Blood sweat and tears
I have a dream
To be or not to be
I know about 'the rule of three' and was therefore leaning towards the first, the presentation can be on any subject its more about how its delivered and the thought process thats gone into it.
I want to do something really witty / quirky so the PH collective help will be greatly received - it has to be clean though!
Ta
I have to do a 10 min presentation max 10 slides on one of three topics:
Blood sweat and tears
I have a dream
To be or not to be
I know about 'the rule of three' and was therefore leaning towards the first, the presentation can be on any subject its more about how its delivered and the thought process thats gone into it.
I want to do something really witty / quirky so the PH collective help will be greatly received - it has to be clean though!
Ta
Blood, Sweat & Tears all but written for you. Simple, unexpected, multimedia options.
I've seen these three a few times! Yorkshire based company.
The problem with trying to help with them is that they're quite personal so it's difficult to advise really.
I always liked BST because you can define what they mean to you, relate them to your life then to your achievements.
Feel free to drop me a message and I'll try to help though.
OK done loads recently, so here's a few pointers:
1) Keep any powerpoint slides to pictures, graphs, and any text must be in bullet points. This is so the viewers attention is on you rather than reading paragraphs of text on the screen. Use the same bullet points to talk about your subject and keep on the subject.
2) Interact with the audience - small crowds only though! If they're likely to know more about a subject, and you're doing the presentation for a job interview or similar - actually ask the people in the audience questions which show you've been thinking about what their company does and were just unsure about a particular point. If pressed on this point out their website just shows what they want their customers to know about them, rather than for instance detailing all their trade secrets.
3) Know your subject to the point that you can confidently tell friends all about the subject without using prompt cards - those bullet points earlier? they're your prompts! At the same time make it interesting. All the presentations I do, I just get up there and talk about the subject using the bullet points to keep me on track. Its not hard.
If I think of anything else I'll let you know!
1) Keep any powerpoint slides to pictures, graphs, and any text must be in bullet points. This is so the viewers attention is on you rather than reading paragraphs of text on the screen. Use the same bullet points to talk about your subject and keep on the subject.
2) Interact with the audience - small crowds only though! If they're likely to know more about a subject, and you're doing the presentation for a job interview or similar - actually ask the people in the audience questions which show you've been thinking about what their company does and were just unsure about a particular point. If pressed on this point out their website just shows what they want their customers to know about them, rather than for instance detailing all their trade secrets.
3) Know your subject to the point that you can confidently tell friends all about the subject without using prompt cards - those bullet points earlier? they're your prompts! At the same time make it interesting. All the presentations I do, I just get up there and talk about the subject using the bullet points to keep me on track. Its not hard.
If I think of anything else I'll let you know!
Pictures, lots of pictures. The more senior the audience, the more of these you will need.
FFS don't read your slides - the audience should be looking at you and what you are saying rather than being distracted by visual 'aids'.
Google Steve Jobs if you want examples of a master presenter at work.
FFS don't read your slides - the audience should be looking at you and what you are saying rather than being distracted by visual 'aids'.
Google Steve Jobs if you want examples of a master presenter at work.
V8mate said:
Bear in mind that a PP presentation should 'stand up' on its own; i.e. if someone read through it without you being there, they'd still get the jist of your message.
I'd say quite the opposite. Only use powerpoint if it is going to add to what you say, it's good to illustrate a point or to emphasise it but so often it is used to put your notes up on a screen in which case why bother turning up?The best presentations I've been to either don't use powerpoint at all or use it very sparingly. You need to plan a presentation and, if you can, make a story of it. Make it interesting, if you just put up slide after slide and read through them people will get bored waiting for you to move to the next slide.
Mobile Chicane said:
Pictures, lots of pictures. The more senior the audience, the more of these you will need.
FFS don't read your slides - the audience should be looking at you and what you are saying rather than being distracted by visual 'aids'.
Google Steve Jobs if you want examples of a master presenter at work.
Thanks for this I have made a couple of changes for the better to mine after watching the clip.FFS don't read your slides - the audience should be looking at you and what you are saying rather than being distracted by visual 'aids'.
Google Steve Jobs if you want examples of a master presenter at work.
also the old maxim:
tell them what you are going to tell them
tell them
tell them what you have just told them
And learn it off by heart. You should only look at the screen to change slides (its far too showing-off to time your presentation so slides change at the right moment).
Dont: use fancy graphics, spinning words or exciting noises. Its naff. but you can use bright colours. But watch yellow as it can be difficult to read at a distance
No harm in making it fun, but never let the humour get in the way of the topics. You have information, they want to know it.
tell them what you are going to tell them
tell them
tell them what you have just told them
And learn it off by heart. You should only look at the screen to change slides (its far too showing-off to time your presentation so slides change at the right moment).
Dont: use fancy graphics, spinning words or exciting noises. Its naff. but you can use bright colours. But watch yellow as it can be difficult to read at a distance
No harm in making it fun, but never let the humour get in the way of the topics. You have information, they want to know it.
jonlk said:
Old School Al! Are you going to learn it by heart then present like thaty (with actor like flair) of are you using presentation aids, flip chart, cards etc?
We have handouts and that's it! I think we've just to get the basic idea of what we want to say and then ad lib it. Seems more like a one-sided conversation to me but hey ho!Well after completing the third round last week I found out today the job went to an internal applicant. There were 2 of us at final stage from 28 initially.
Very frustrating as I think it was always going to go that way regardless of how well I performed so feel a bit 'used'
So - on with the search.
Very frustrating as I think it was always going to go that way regardless of how well I performed so feel a bit 'used'
So - on with the search.
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