Posted September 2nd, 2009 by Bill
So you’re standing there at the front of the room, you’ve checked that all of the equipment works, and you’re ready to present. How do you start?
People attending presentations fall into three type; prisoners, vacationers and learners. If you’re going to engage all three you need to be interesting and enthusiastic. It would be a really wierd type of person who would enjoy sitting though a long boring presentation. If you don’t engage them right up front, you can lose them. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted September 2nd, 2009 by Bill
This is teaching granny how to suck eggs, but necessary.
Before you even think of firing up your powerpoint program, go analog! Get a piece of paper, a pencil and an eraser, sit in a quiet spot and work out how you are going to present your message. Why? Because it’s like this image, and the alliteration of the seven “p”s that they taught me in the Army.
“prior preparation and planning prevents p*ss poor performance”.
Any story or presentation should have three parts – a beginning, middle and end. No big revelations there, but you’d be surprised at how many presentations I’ve seen where it’s difficult to distinguish these, apart from chronology. Receiving an amorphous mass of facts and figures with no structure can be extremely irritating. Read the rest of this entry »
