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Some basic Guidelines forPresenting

Market Research and Intelligence

John Clay

February 2016

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• Overview• Slide design tips • General presentation

guidelines• Some additional

resources

Content

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Two key messages

1. Provide references and sources for the information you use in your presentations

2. Design a presentation that is memorable using a story and images to get your message across

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Best practice tips for presenting business intelligence

Add some commentary to tease out key points

Always add the

information source. Where

possible include a web

link to the original

Include a slide

number for easy

reference if presenting

online

Try not to include too much

information on one slide

Other tips:• Add any assumptions you have made to your calculations

• Add an appendix to provide links to references and additional information

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Some general tips for delivering presentations (1)

• Present the findings in person: insist on a face to face meeting ( or online presentation) to present the findings. It will help the audience to better understand the results

• Jump right in: state the key findings at the start of the presentation

• Tell a story: build the presentation to tell a story with evidence and detail to support it

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Some general tips for delivering presentations (2)

• Be creative: use visuals, audio and images, but don’t overdo it. Try to match the style of delivery to the audience

• Be interactive: make any presentation as interactive as possible

• Focus on implications and actions: encourage ownership of the findings. Make someone responsible for following up what needs to be done

• Use appropriate language: make sure it suits the audience, but avoid jargon. Make the presentation simple to understand

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• No surprises: manage your audience expectations and publish preliminary findings

• Provide solutions: your job is to interpret the findings and make recommendations

• Be bold: state the findings and be confident in your explanation

• Leave no chinks in your armour: be confident in the approach you have taken

• Divide and conquer: deliver the findings in small groups or even one to one especially is the information you are presenting might be controversial

Some additional tips when presenting to difficult audiences

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• 3 aspects of communications design1. Simplicity2. Imagery3. A story

Or in other words:

“Tell a simple story with pictures”

Designing the presentation

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• Place numbers into a context so people understand what they mean

• Provide meaningful examples to articulate what the numbers are saying

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Simplify complex information

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Get to the core of the idea

• Strip the presentation down to its most critical essence – The message you want to get across

• Structure your presentation around a central story or idea to create cohesion. Then support key ideas with detail

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• The picture superiority effect says that pictures are remembered better than words

• The effect is strongest when the pictures represent common, concrete things compared to more abstract ideas

The use of images

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• Pecha Kucha www.pecha-kucha.org

• Animation Check out this example on youtube: http://tinyurl.com/2uoupt4

• Prezi – Mind-map style presentation tool www.prezi.com

• Naked – Present with no slides to capture your audiences attention

Some different presentation formats to try

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Some additional resources

Link Description

http://beyondbulletpoints.com/ Cliff Atkinson’s website of the book

www.i-render.net/2010/05/50-examples-of-data-visualization-and-infographics/

Infographics examples

www.edwardtufte.com Data visualisation guru

Www.heathbrothers.com Check out the stickypresentation guide

www.garrreynolds.com/ Presenting guru

www.presentationmagazine.com Presentation magazine with lots of useful tips

Www.mashable.com/2007/05/15/16-awesome-data-visualization-tools/

Data visualisation examples

http://www.lessig.org/ Lawrence Lessig’s site

http://identity20.com/media/OSCON2005/ Dick Hardt presenting the Lessig way.

http://www.presentationzen.com/ Garr Reynold’s blog on professional presentation design

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