Archives for June 2016

How to Make a Good Presentation in a Hurry

It's an emergency! Your boss or clients have given you less than 24 hours to get a presentation ready... Help! Don't worry... Here is how to make a good presentation in a hurry. It's efficient for us time-poor types and it's an easy 4-step process: Outline your presentation Practice your speech based on the outline Create a simple slide deck to support your speech Practice your speech with your slides Let's look at each step in detail. 1. Outline your …

How to Design Presentation Slides

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I've got bad news for you: Great presentation slides can't save a bad public speaker. Imagine Albert from the accounting department delivering a monotone speech using Steve Jobs quality slides. Doesn't work, right?! The good news is, well-designed presentation slides can turn a great speech into an awesome presentation. Preparation done? The key to creating a great speech is in how you prepare. Read this post on the correct way to prepare for your presentation. If you've …

Top 6 Public Speaking Tips: Deliver Like a Pro

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Public speaking can be one of the most challenging tasks you are ever required to do. Putting yourself out there in front of an audience can be rough. If only there was a list of public speaking tips which would have an instant impact on your presentation... Oh, look!.. Here they are: 1. Plan backwards You've just been asked to deliver a speech and it's panic stations. What are you going to say? What will you put on your PowerPoint slides? Take a breath, grab a piece of paper, …

4 Tricks to Keep Your Audience Interested

by Dave Mac 5 Comments

Janice Brown pressed the clicker and advanced to her second slide. She turned back to the audience and continued. "As you can see..." Janice was nervous. There were only about 25 people in front of her and this made her more jittery. She could see every wince, every uncomfortable shift, and every check of a wrist watch. She turned towards the screen and read her bullet points from slide two. She suddenly wished she hadn't created a slide deck with 40 slides. They only had an …

Death by PowerPoint is a Myth: Nice Slides Won’t Save Your Presentation

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Have you ever experienced death by PowerPoint? Death by PowerPoint is an affliction caused by poor use of presentation software. Such as having huge slabs of text or bullet points on slides. The audience is likely to be bored to death by the PowerPoint. Death by PowerPoint is a myth Andrew Shields is an awesome presenter. He has a knack for clearly explaining information. When he speaks he connects to his audience and they want to listen to him. Brett West is an inexperienced …

The First 2 Seconds of Your Presentation are Make or Break

by Dave Mac 3 Comments

No matter what you do in your presentation the first 2 seconds are what sticks in your audience's mind. There are many aspects of your presentation that will make an impact on the audience. These can be: Body language Eye contact Vocal emphasis Slide design Question handling None of the above will have much impact on the audience unless you use your first 2 seconds wisely. Why the first 2 seconds matters The first 2 seconds is the part where the audience is making a …

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