Beyond the Slide Deck: Creating & Delivering Great Presentations
Pocket Guide to Delivering Effective Presentations
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Effective PresentationsA Guide
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The Four Key Elements
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Understanding your audience
Preparing your content
Delivering content
Controlling the environment
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1. Understanding your audience
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Did you know…
The average attention span is only 20 minutes
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What do they do?What are their roles?What are their preferences?
What do they need to learn?What do they already know?
What would a generic profile of them look like?
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What questions might your audience want to ask?
Prepare for tricky questions…
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Do you use any technical jargon that might be difficult for the audience to understand?
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What will leave your audience wanting more?
How will you capture attention?
2. Preparing Your Content
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Often, it helps to draft on a piece of paper what you want each slide to look like.Don’t let a computer stifle your creativity!
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Use splashes of colour
that stand out!
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WhiteSpaceCanAppear Calming And Clean
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ArialGill Sans MTTahoma
Sans serif fonts are the most readable…
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In your text, use three-part sentence structures to increase the impact of the statement…
Veni vidi vici
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Always distinguish the
important
parts of your slides.
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Less is often more. Presentations will oftenbe most effective when there are amaximum of six lines of text and
a maximum of seven words per line.More than one paragraph decreases attention and
can cause the audience to read on.
3. Delivering confidently
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Take speaker notes. Even if you don’t use them you will feel more confidentknowing they are there.
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Pay attention to what you’re going to wear. You may have hundreds of eyes on you. Look the part as well as sounding the part!
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Modulate your voice – speak as if to a friend rather than an audience.
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Summarise key points at the end of the presentation. It will reinforce your messages.
4. Controlling the Environment
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Practice in the same environment, or a similar environment, to which you will be presenting in
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Keep the lights on!
Don’t shy away, be bold, confident and memorable.
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Have a back up plan in case of any technical problems…
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1.Understanding your audience2.Preparing your content3.Delivering confidently4.Controlling the environment
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