Building Presentations

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My Thoughts and LearningGeoffrey King | Sales Engineer, APAC | June 4th 2010

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• Death by Presentation!• Key Death Causes• Summary

Agenda


there are

300 millionpowerpoint users

in the world** Estimate


they do

30 millionpresentations

each day** Estimate


about a

millionpresentations are

going on right now** Estimate


50%of them are

unbearable** Conservative Estimate


killingeach other with badpresentations.

NOW.

MANY people are


dead!well, almost.

they are all


Death Circle

Bad presentations

Bad communication

Bad relations

Less sales

Less money

Less training


Why are they doing it?

1. Indifference2. (In)experience3. Preparation4. Practice


indifference

1 2 3 4


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?


passionthis is


notthis is


(In)experience

1 2 3 4


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?


preparation1 2 3 4


In your rush you may skip steps such as

• Considering your audience

• Structuring your presentation

• Simplifying your content

• Time management

• Design


audienceconsider your


Structurethe building blocks:


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


Simplify!


kewl?


yeah rock on, I get it. ALL


I’m going to sleep. ZZZ


• Visual ideas

• Create key points

• Impress

Key problems

• Prompter

• Handouts

• Data dumps

They use slides as: But PowerPoint helps to:


time management


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


design


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


Eyeblaster template tips

Animation & Layout Tips

Full Theme Colours

Theme Colours

Inserting Charts


practice

1 2 3 4


Practice makes perfect

• Never works first time

• Feedback. Go get some.

• No audience? Present to the furniture

• Check the room and equipment


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?


summary1. Passion2. Experience3. Preparation4. Practice


Feel free to ask any questions

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