Presentation skills for business managers

Presentation Skills for Business Managers The New Rules of Presentations Presented by: Abhishek Sisodia Abhinav Joshi

Presentation A visual and aural event intended to communicate, for the purposes of providing information, helping to understand, gaining agreement, and/or motivating to act.

Content, Design, and Delivery Design is the architecture of the slides and the graphic-cal enhancements. Delivery is how you voice your message. Content includes the research and organization of materials To make the presentation great, there must be synergy of these three elements.

The Process First, you must create your content. Then, you must design for that content. Finally, you must develop your delivery strategy and style.

The Situation • Purpose • People • Point • Place

Using Humor HELPS YOU CONNECT WITH THE AUDIENCE. MAKES YOU MORE LIKEABLE. AROUSES INTEREST. KEEPS ATTENTION.

Using Humor HELPS EMPHASIZE POINTS AND IDEAS. DISARMS HOSTILITY. OVERCOMES OVERLY FLATTERING INTRODUCTIONS. GETS YOUR POINT ACROSS WITHOUT CREATING HOSTILITY. HELPS RELATE FACTS AND FIGURES.

Using Humor MAKES A POSITIVE IMPRESSION. SHOWS THAT YOU DON'T TAKE YOURSELF TOO SERIOUSLY. HELPS PAINT PICTURES IN THE AUDIENCE'S MIND. MAKES INFORMATION MORE MEMORABLE. LIGHTENS UP HEAVY MATERIAL.

Be Funny Image by Kathy Sierra, via Creating Passionate Users Blog

Using Humor YOU WILL BE ASKED BACK. YOU WILL GET HIGHER EVALUATIONS OR MORE SALES. YOU WILL MAKE MORE MONEY. YOU WILL MAKE PEOPLE HAPPY

Timing Timing is one of the most important aspects of humor and NOZZZZZs presenting. Not only is timing involved in an individual piece of humor, it is also involved in the placement of that piece of humor in the overall presentation. Timing is also involved in spontaneous reactions to "expected“ unexpected developments during the presentation.

Timing Jack Benny said, "Timing is not so much knowing when to speak, but knowing when to pause.“ In joke telling, a pause just before and just after your punch line gives the audience a chance to laugh. Absolutely do not continue to talk when laughter is expected. Laughter is hard to get and easy to discourage.

Timing Hold eye contact a little bit longer than you think you should when delivering punch lines because time is hard to judge when you are pumped-up for a presentation.

Time of day and Humor The first speaker of the day for an early morning (7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.) program should not expect hearty laughter. People are not conditioned to laugh a great deal in the early morning. Many won't even be awake yet. Use more information and less humor

Time of day and Humor It's important for you to know when NOT to expect hearty laughter. It would be a waste of time to use your best material at a time when laughter normally wouldn't be expected.

A Sound, Sound System A humorous presentation demands a better sound system than a serious talk. In a serious talk, words can be missed and the main message can still be very clear. In humor it doesn't work that way. If key words are missed in a joke or story, it will ruin the humor. No one will laugh and you will look like a giant goober.

Closings You must put as much time into selecting and practicing your closing as you put into any other part of your presentation. Just like your opening, your closing does not have to be humorous. It could be motivational, challenging, thoughtful, respectful of the length of the presentation, or it could restate your point in a different way.

Closings you could end with a touching story or quotation that leaves the audience thoughtful and quiet. Even the most serious subjects can benefit from humor, but the humor should be sprinkled throughout the body of the presentation. Don't put it at the end because closings are powerful and the audience will think your overall attitude toward the subject is flippant.

Know More than You Show “ It’s not hard to know a lot of stuff; what’s hard is to know what stuff to share.”

Rating Presentations Here’s how Rick Altman rates presentations (“The Tyranny of Presentation Software”) • Best Presentation: Truly excellent speaker, great ideas, and slides that amplify on the points made, instead of repeating them. • Very Good: Truly excellent speaker, great ideas, and no slides.

Rating Presentations Still OK: Excellent speaker, redundant slides that don’t add anything. Not So Good: Bad speaker, good slides. Pretty Bad: Bad speaker, no slides. The Worst: Bad speaker, redundant slides. As you prepare a presentation, imagine your audience rating you by this scale. How would you score?

1) What is your past training using PowerPoint (or Apple Keynote)? 2) Based on your experience at work or school, what are the traditional “rules” for using PPT? ISSUES IN POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS

Slide Design Bullets Fonts Colors Hierarchy and contrast PowerPoint is an on-line medium. Remember!

Golden Rules of PowerPoint Presentations A good PowerPoint presentation aims to change behavior. PowerPoint is on-line, highly visual, multimedia. February 6, 2003 Golden Rules for PowerPoint Presentations

Golden Rules of PowerPoint Presentations Fit content to goal, objectives, audience, timeframe Strong opening and closing Distribute content well across slides Consistent, visually pleasing design Fit font(s), color scheme to subject, audience No more than 1 serif and 1 sans serif font Complementary colors, good contrast Graphics to enhance text, add eye candy Animation to convey flow, dynamics Multimedia sparingly, to add pizazz February 6, 2003

New Rules of Presentations 1) Design Right-Brained Slides. 2) Tell Stories. 3) Use Pictures.

Rule #1 Design Right-Brain Slides NOT TEXT BASED ,BUT VISUAL BASED GOOD IN DESIGN

Photo: Steve Mellon/Post-Gazette Rule #2 Tell Stories

Vision trumps all other senses.

Rule #10: Vision trumps all other senses.

2% of the world owns 50% of the wealth. Use a Metaphorical Image

The poorest 50% of the world The poorest 50% of the world owns 1% of the wealth.

Left -Brained Slides People can’t listen and read effectively at the same time. Watching presenters read directly from their slides is really, really boring. Slide after slide of bulleted text puts people to sleep. Garr Reynolds calls this “Death By Powerpoint.” 7

Beware the Tyranny of Your Tools In his online article, “TheTyranny of Presentation Software,” Rick Altman warns that presentation software “dummies” down good presenters 7

Understanding Titles - Write informative titles that tell your audience the importance of the slide within three seconds. Illustrate information with charts , comparison tables, and/or pictures. Call Attention Use arrows or symbols that draw attention to the important part of the chart or diagram.

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