Perfect Presentations
(or death by PowerPoint?)
Emma-Jayne Russell & Denise
Brooks
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How do you feel about giving presentations?
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Perfect Presentations
Why?
• Captivate
• Engage
• Motivate
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What?
• Audience
• You
• Props
How?
• Involve
• Engage
• Minimal
Mission impossible?
• 7 seconds - decide to
continue listening or not
Why?
• Captivate
• Engage
• Motivate
• 30 seconds - engagement
time to convince audience
• 50 seconds – get to the point
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It’s all about the audience
• Want to know v. need to know
v. can you answer?
What?
• Audience
• You
• Props
• 93% human communication =
body language
• Short, shorter, shortest
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And action…!
• Always have an element of
practical activity
How?
• Involve
• Engage
• Minimal
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• Engagement through empathy
• YOU are the key – not the
software
Checklist
Evaluation
• Knowledge
What do you think of
us?
• Structure
• Clear and consistent
• Simple
• Practice
• Performance
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Activity
• Your turn to present
• 90 seconds
• One object
• In pairs
• Use your checklist to
help
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Rescue Remedies - Behaviour
Eject them
Address them directly
Divide and conquer
Talk offline
Ask for input
Ask a question
Stand by them
Eyeball them
Silence it
Ignore it
‘Intervention Escalator’
- Gail Zack Anderson
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Rescue Remedies – You
• Voice – drink, pause, breathe!
• Technology – think quantity
• Audience – you can’t win ‘em all…
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Videos
• http://youtu.be/WnLjuj
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• http://www.youtube.co
m/watch?v=NXMarwA
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http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=examples+of+bad+
presentations&go=&qs=bs&form=QBVR#view=detail&m
id=B0969AEAF518B46200AEB0969AEAF518B46200A
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PowerPoint Alternatives
• PowToon: Best free presentation software, best
animated presentation software
• Google Docs: Best Simplified PowerPoint Clone
• 280 Slides: Best for good looking simple Bullet
point presentations.
• Sliderocket: Best Collaborative slideshow
software
• Prezi: Best non-linear presentation software
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Review
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