Giving Great Presentations

Advice on how to create (organise, design and facilitate) great presentations, especially suited to university students and lecturers.

Transcript

1. Giving Great Presentations Why Most Researchers Don’t Use Lego... © Matthew C. Draycott 2011
2. Matthew Draycott Currently: Enterprise Associate Glyndŵr University Formerly: Lecturer, Entrepreneur and Sales Manager Blog: www.mdraycott.com Email: m.draycott@glyndwr.ac.uk
3. Discuss What Makes Great Presentations Share Tips And Tricks I’ve Learnt Show You Some Great Examples
4. Why do I need to give great presentations?
5. What Makes A Presentation Great...
6. Content. What's the Story...
7. Aims: these define what you want to achieve in your presentation and give you something to structure your content around... How Many Aims In 3 Minutes? How Should You Structure An Aim? Let’s Create Some Examples...
8. Styles... Narrative Cause / Effect Chronological Problem
9. Content: select this to match your aims! Consider your audience...what do they know? Keep language appropriate and avoid Jargon Keep in Mind Timings...Don’t let it run away!
10. Outline: Presentation Plan
11. Body Introduction Conclusion 3 Key elements:
12. Impact! Grab the Audience
13. Body… Use Key Points Target Audience Craft Your Story Logic Flow
14. Conclusion It’s all about the call to action
15. Design. Don’t Spoil it...
16. There’s nothing worse than great content wasted by a badly designed presentation...
17. ...But Great Design can Inspire and Engage! Think Visual... pictures help Create Emotional Responses Use Less Words... Remember Slides and Handouts are Just a Prompt!
18. Be Consistent; choose colours and images that work together...
19. Because it’s really annoying when something changes halfway through!
20. Image Sources Flickr Dreamstime i-Stock Photo Stock.xchng Compfight...shhhhh!
21. Colours... Multicolr...shhhhh!
22. Fonts... Arial Berlin Sans FB Gill Sans MT ...Never Use Comic Sans. Ever!
23. No Bullet Points! ...Have I used any yet?
24. Delivery. Sell Your Ideas...
25. ...How do we communicate?
26. Body Language 70% Tone of Voice 20% What you say 10% !
27. Language: Feeling Short Sentences Simple Ideas ...Avoid Jargon
28. Tone of Voice: Volume Pitch Intonation
29. Body Language: Get Relaxed Find A Stance Let Your Body Lead Make Eye Contact
30. The Important thing is to relax. If you get lost just pause and take a second to get back on track!
31. Practice... ...Try not to read from your slides... ...The Audience’s Focus Should be You!
32. Learn From a Master Watch: Steve Jobs
33. Now Use Points... • Develop Aims • Select Relevant Data • Create an Outline • Create Great Design • Focus on Communication • Practice...Lots • Watch Experts for Tips
34. One Last Thing: Why don’t most researchers use lego? Fear...
35. Alice Bartlett Duanchaser Leg0Fenris Venzini Exxtrooper Solo Minifig Kennymatic Al_HikesAZ Photography.andreas Artifex Creation Mark Thompson j.Reed Ntlr32 yo3l IcedSoul Photography thewhitestdogalive Niznoz Solo Jpshannon44 Kalexanderson Image Sources Cool People Who Made Stuff Free...
36. References Cool People to Study... Slideshare: Presentation Skills V2.0 Yodhia Antariksa: Steal This Presentation Simon Jones: Jesse Dee: Presentation Skills... Other Stuff: Steve Jobs TED Seth Godin