Presentation Skills Example: Paul

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Presentation Skills Example Paul John

• Paul
• Executive
• Counting ums

• John
• Executive
• First words Three slides

Who communicated better?
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Presentation Skills

• Organize well
• define terms and players
• ask what does my audience know?

Your listeners have to have context, just as you
do

• Boil it down
• 6 or fewer bullets per slide
• be upfront if editorializing
• have a point

Set expectations and fulfill them
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If you have a handout...

• DO
• Use in presentation
• Names, with spellings
• Maps
• Dates and timeline
• or, Use for peripheral but interesting info
• Map
• News story

• DONT
• Just give it out without explaining relevance
• Your audience should know immediately if they
  need to refer to it during your presentation

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Please Avoid...

• Reading

• Talkingtoofastfornotetaking

• Digressions
• unless you give a clear bookmark and return

• Numbers and names that are not important

• Irrelevant/heinous sounds, fades, and colors

• Ending without some sort of conclusion
• not Okay, Im done!

Make them want to and be able to follow you

• Going over time