The Presentation Taniwha

Olga Brochner, CNS ADHB

Plan• Positive

• Taniwha

public speaking

topic

presentation styles

• Strategies

Aim:

Present to colleagues: 1 year

Smile

•Disseminate information

•Nurses as educators

•Self learning

•Professional development

•Conference attendance

Speaking …

•Small steps

•Confidence

•Toast masters

•Practice

•Your choice

- objectives

- subject

Topic / subject

•Process

•Logical

•Message

•“KISS” for content

•Mistakes

•Questions

•Practice & rehearse

“How”

• Learning styles: visual, auditory, kinesthetic

• Script

• Timing

• Practice

• Power-point

consider: font size

colour / background

information on slide

Example

• You can have lots of writing but often it is better to have less and use it as a prompt. That way the screen is too not too busy

• PLUS it will mean no one is listening to you but instead are just trying to read everything that is up there

• Watch the effects……….• It is all too busy, too many colours and this black one is hard to read.

Remember contract on the screen

• As Aretha sang: think!!!• I read Steve Jobs used to try & have no words

Contrast

Pictures

Strategies

• Start planning early!

• Organised & prepared

• Advice / assistance

• Speak clearly

• Notes

• Water

• Practice

Remember

•Audience friends

•Visualise

•Breathing

•Practice

Thank you