Presentations

I work as a sales trainer and for 8 hours a day i am standing there giving presentations.

Most of the advice others have given you is spot on, just a few things

1. only use bullet points, don't put loads of info on your flipor powerpoint doc, you can use these bullets to elaborate more info if need be

2. if your writing on a flip chart, write slightly downwards as this actually keeps the writing a lot straighter, if you try to write too straight you will end up writing on an upwards slant

3. colour is important, only use three colours on any visual aids also try to avoid the use of red and green for main points as this can be a bone of contention with anyone suffering from colour blindness, i tend to use blue and black for main point and if i have anything to elaborate on and want to highlight in different colour i use red or green.

4, be careful with humour,one thing that is looked at when assessing presentations is knowing your audience or pre-empting what type of audience you have. I made ths mistake earlier this year, for years when i have inducted people in the company i work for i have said when talking about our dress-code "no mini skirts, boob tubes, laddered tights, and thats just for the men!" which normally gets a laugh, but little did i know that i had a transvestite in my room once and the whole mood of the room went sour!!! not good for first impressions.

5. something called personal impact, people base thier impressions on three things, 60% on looks, 30% on sound and 10% on say, which means its not what you say its how you sound!!! for example if i said "i never said you stole the money" you could emphasise different words in that sentence and it would mean totally different things. When your speaking think of these things, your pitch, volume, articulation, energy and pace.

6. my little trick for public speaking when i get nervous, and i still get well nervous even though i've done it day in day out for years is to push my thumb and index finger together, no-one knows your doing it but it shifts focus from being nervous onto that

7. be careful of umms, aahhs, right and basically, it will probably happen but just be aware of it.

8. good luck, i'm sure you will do fine!

I did a power point presentation for an interview last year, the one mistake I made was I tended to read from the slide instead of the laptop, something to bear in mind. And as Kev said try not to use Ermmmm to much, its really easy to do especially when your nervous, I guess it comes with experience/practice.

that finger thing really works kev, i tried it today while wandering around and ad libbing some stuff for this presentation i have next week.

on a slightly crap note ive found out 2 out of the 4 places ive applied to has already filled up with places and the way the system works is i wont be able to have my last choice sent on for at least 3 weeks so this one is really my only shot.

i'm having to put more work into this than anything i've done in my 3 years of classes. if i don't get in it's off to the other end of the world to teach english for a year then travelling america until my money runs out and i need to come home but i'm growing rather attched to the new missus so that would suck.

damn my handsomeness

No reading.

Period.

Ever.

NO READING!!!


Do you know your material? Tell the class about it. Don't read. Don't bore the crowd. Everybody there is literate and will be able to READ the freaking slides themselves!! Talk about what is NOT on the slide and use examples to make your points rather than reading what everyone can read for themselves.

My best lectures and presentations did not involve handouts or pre-made slides. Mind you, usually I don't give presentations to teach but rather to sell. I tell stories, I draw graphs, I move numbers with zeros from one box or triangle to another I impress and I make them like me. The client might buy my services, but really they buy me and the other people on the project. If they like me and want to spend more time with me they will engage me. If I am a bore, they will count the minutes till I am out the door and I won’t hear from them again.

Like KevBee said: your appearance, tone, inflections and mannerisms are almost more important than the context of your presentation.

In principle, I use the same method whether or not I make a pitch to a potential client, point out a cool strategy to my boss, or get the staff up to speed to work on a particular project.

I like high level. Detail bores me. In a classroom settings at least. Detail is only interesting if it is on point and powerful. Otherwise, skip it.

From the perspective of an attendant, I have three things to say:
- Don’t insult my intelligence with reading the presentation for me
- Don’t waste my time with lame jokes and rambles
- Challenge me with new ideas and information that don’t come straight from a textbook

im not so sure about the too pretty for jail joke now so ive come up with a slightly cleaner one.

since it's about the wall i'm doing a part about the main players of the soviet and east german governments who led to it coming down. i'm probably going to say something along the lines of: prior to what you might have been told or read on the internet, the wall didn't magically fall down because ronald reagan shouted "tear this wall down" mr gorbachev at it nor because david hasselhoff sang ontop of it.

although it's adults i'm presenting too the "lesson" is aimed at 16-18 year olds...

goer or just stick to the jail one and hope they're not all stiff arses?

well, we all know how it really happened .... me and my punk friends .... lmao.....

don't steal the hoffs thunder

... says mr. modest.

woot whodda guessed after running around mad getting acetates n stuff for this my printer 1st decided to not print in colour then just stop working completely *thumbsup*