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3-4-1: It’s like Happy Hour on New Skills!

A pitch is an invitation to collaboration

Three Stories:

1. Self

2. Us

3. Now

Ask for money and you’ll get advice.

Ask for advice and you’ll get

both.

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Giving Powerful Presentations

1. How to plan your presentation2. How to make your presentation3. How to give your presentation

Pro Tip:Agendas really are helpful.

They’re not spoilers.

If you remember only one thing,remember this…

The verb is

Give

Break any presentation rule you want if it is truly in the best interest of your audience.

You’re there for them.

If you’d like to remember a few more things…

Audience

Platform

Content

Locating your talk is the first step in planning your talk.

Audience

4 Slides

SES

10 Slides

GS 14-15

20-40 Slides

GS 9-13

All the slides you want

Academics

Attention Span

Pay Grade

Attention span is inversely correlated to pay grade.

Platform

Happy Hour TED Talk TPS Report

call to action X available time X Content

Do you know what needs to be done and what

your audience is interested in

doing?

How much time did you have to organize your thoughts and

prepare materials?

How much do you know and how well have you thought through the

issues?

Giving Powerful Presentations

1. How to plan your presentation2. How to make your presentation3. How to give your presentation

Pro Tip:If you have

a lot of content, mark out

chunks for people

The verb is

Give

The Black and White Rule:–Will your work be projected or printed?

Platform Governs Making

Performance

Large Print

Memo

is about emotionsA

Performance

Content comes from the speaker

Slides set the emotional tone: big pictures and evocative words

• Graphs have feelings too

• Don’t be afraid of empty space.

• You can always make a page of takeaway facts

• Use color to guide youraudience’s eyes

is about emotionsA

Performance

Pro Tips!

is about clarity of logic.Basic Rules of Memos Apply• Assume your audience

hasn’t read it when you present.

• Assume they will give it to someone who didn’t hear you present.

• Use headings to demark information for easy scanning.

• Write clearly and concisely.• Try to limit yourself to 5

bullet points in any list.

And Some Basic Visual Rules• You can put much more

information per slide.

• Use color, but don’t depend on it.

• Stay away from photographs, instead use drawings, diagrams and graphs.

• Try to keep objects visually aligned with each other – symmetry is inherently pleasing.

A Large Print Memo

How to Make Your PresentationFaster

How to Make Your PresentationFastest

Giving Powerful Presentations

1. How to plan your presentation2. How to make your presentation3. How to give your presentation

Pro Tip:Respect the time you’ve

been allotted.

The verb is

Give

3 Steps to betterpresentations:

• Rehearse

• Rehearse

•Rehearse

I’m going to say some stuff about…I’m sure the room will be set up…

Just a few last second changes…

Further Reading

• To make your presentations better: Give Your Speech, Change the World, by Nick Morgan

• To make your pitches more persuasive: To Sell is Human, by Dan Pink

• To make your data come alive: Visualize This, by Nathan Yau

• On improving your creative skills generally: Steal Like an Artist, Austin Kleon

Photo Credits

• Slide 2 Happy Hour A Paris by beyrouth• Slide 3 Wedding Invitations by Mathew Hutchinson• Slide 4 Clip Art – sometimes it doesn’t suck.• Slide 5 Advice by Lauglin Elkin• Slide 9Gift by Asenat29• Slide 13 Pheezy teaches music! By jm3,

Goring Clean Coal by jurveston, Helping me with my TPS reports by cutoutwitch

• Slide 18 Changing the Way We Eat by TEDxManhattan

• Slide 25 Rehearsing! By Jonathan Haynes• Slide 26 Red Flagged by Daniel R. Blume

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