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My Thoughts and LearningGeoffrey King | Sales Engineer, APAC | June 4th 2010
Building Presentations
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• Death by Presentation!• Key Death Causes• Summary
Agenda
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there are
300 millionpowerpoint users
in the world** Estimate
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they do
30 millionpresentations
each day** Estimate
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about a
millionpresentations are
going on right now** Estimate
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50%of them are
unbearable** Conservative Estimate
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killingeach other with badpresentations.
NOW.
MANY people are
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dead!well, almost.
they are all
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Death Circle
Bad presentations
Bad communication
Bad relations
Less sales
Less money
Less training
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Why are they doing it?
1. Indifference2. (In)experience3. Preparation4. Practice
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indifference
1 2 3 4
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Some presenters just don’t care
your audience can sense it
Why do you present?
• Last minute replacement?
• To pass the information?
• Carolyn told you to?
• Or to make meaning?
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passionthis is
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passionthis is
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passionthis is
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notthis is
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(In)experience
1 2 3 4
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In your lack of experience or knowledge
what will happen to your audience?
• Trying to prove yourself?
• Covering too much material?
• Too good for this?
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preparation1 2 3 4
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In your rush you may skip steps such as
• Considering your audience
• Structuring your presentation
• Simplifying your content
• Time management
• Design
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audienceconsider your
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Structurethe building blocks:
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Memorable opening
1 argument
2 argument
3 argument
1 More details...2 More details...3 More details...
Memorable closing
1 More details...
2 More details...
3 More details...
1 More details...
2 More details...
3 More details... } 45 Minutes
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Way-finding
• Agenda slide
• Handout
• Executive summary
• Slide numbering
• Progress bar
• Bumper / transition slides
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Simplify!
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kewl?
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yeah rock on, I get it. ALL
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I’m going to sleep. ZZZ
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• Visual ideas
• Create key points
• Impress
Key problems
• Prompter
• Handouts
• Data dumps
They use slides as: But PowerPoint helps to:
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time management
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You have bad time management so you
The more time and effort you put in, the
more they get out
• Left presentation building to last minute
• Lack of rehearsal
• Spent too long on some slides while presenting
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design
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Simple design rules: consistency
• Keep the number of bullet points low
• Don’t use more than three fonts
• Follow Eyeblaster’s template colours & style
• Images (photos ideal)
• Formatting
• Content
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Eyeblaster template tips
Animation & Layout Tips
Full Theme Colours
Theme Colours
Inserting Charts
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practice
1 2 3 4
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Practice makes perfect
• Never works first time
• Feedback. Go get some.
• No audience? Present to the furniture
• Check the room and equipment
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Questions to ask yourself• Budgeted adequate time to prepare and rehearse?
• Invested time in editing and simplifying your presentation?
• Learned at least one new thing to improve your next slides?
• Are you excited about your next presentation
• Personalised the slides to reflect your unique style and perspective?
• Adequately tailored to your next audience?
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summary1. Passion2. Experience3. Preparation4. Practice
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Feel free to ask any questions
Thank youHow did we do?
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