Avoiding presentation disaster - how hard could it be?

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Avoiding PRESENTATION DISASTER

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Presentations should soar …

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But most of them suck

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At least this kind of sucking serves a useful purpose But most of them suck

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WHY?

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Because even when you are in a room with 10, 50, 300, 1000 or more people …

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… presenting can feel very lonely.

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The moment of birth and It is said that you are only truly alone at two moments in your life

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the moment of death It is said that you are only truly alone at two moments in your life

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But there is a third

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So what is the difference between a poor-to-average presenter ...

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✴This is my Fabulous Presentation and I love it so very very much. ✴It is full of incomprehensible ﬂowcharts, graphs that are too small to see, and decorative lo-res images that don’t really illustrate the point, but serve to ﬁll the little bits of empty space that are left on my screen. ✴But most of all, there are Bullet Points. ✴Lots and lots of lovely, meaty and cuddly Bullet Points. ✴And because they are so fabulous and so cuddly, I am going to spend most of the presentation with my back to you as I lovingly read out my cuddly Bullet Points. My Fabulous Presentation

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… and a really good presenter? … and a great presenter?

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Good presenters, great presenters, are like this ...

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Good presenters, great presenters, are like this ...

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Good presenters, great presenters, are like this ...

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Good presenters, great presenters, are like this ...

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Good presenters, great presenters, are like this ... They make it look effortless and you never see ...

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The sweat

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Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration

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Most presentations end up being one or more of the following ...

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An AutoCue for the presenter

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No content

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Something that would be better handled through the medium of a hefty report

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Or a brain-dump

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To avoid this, you need to stop and ask yourself one simple question

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Point A If this is where my audience are now ...

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Point B … how do I bring them to where I need them to be?

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Clarity

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Clarity You must be clear on what you are trying to achieve

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If you can’t explain it simply, then you don’t understand it well enough

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Comprehend

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Comprehend They must understand what you are saying

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How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things, but by how well we are ... UNDERSTOOD ONLY THE PARANOID SURVIVE

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Concur

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Concur They (usually) need to agree with what you’re saying

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I’m sorry. If you were right, I’d agree with you.

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Care

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They always need to care about what you’re saying Care

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Don’t know, don’t care. Q: Are you ignorant, or just apathetic?

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Action

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Action Then, they might take appropriate action on it

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ACTION expresses priorities

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So what is good presentation?

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C C C C

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C C C C +

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C C C =Action C +

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Otherwise, you pretty much suck

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Avoiding PRESENTATION DISASTER