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Actual for You - Presentation Planning
Over the course of your business life you'll come in contact with a number of other business people. They could be lawyers, business services, suppliers, customers, etc. These people are important to your business in more ways than one. If you hired them or they bought your product or service, you can also gain their business knowledge, experience, ideas, and advice. How do you do this? Stay Connected! Network! Networking is when two or more different businesses stay in contact on a regular basis to build and improve each others business. Consider all the benefits you'l
Content
At long last, I hear you shout, the actual content of the presentation. The most common mistake that we all do is put too much content into our presentations. We can bombard our audience with just too much to take in one swallow. Have a look at these stats which confirm how much of your content audiences recall:
100% - is what you plan to say in your presentation
80% - is what you remember to say
50% - is what your audience hears
30% - is what your audience remembers
15% - is what they recall 3 hours later
5% - is what
Imagine you're the technology reporter at a daily newspaper. You learn that a new computer virus is making the rounds on the Net and you find that it has shut down three local banks within the past few hours. You're desperately searching for information on the virus, names and phone numbers of experts who can tell you about it, ways to prevent the virus from spreading, how to eradicate the virus and repair the damage to computers, and a spokesperson from at least one of the banks so you can get a quote for your article -- all before 5 PM so you can write the story that will appea
Objectives
A house is built on firm foundations and can last for centuries. A business presentation, in fact any presentation, will fall down without the right foundations and these foundations are the objectives. They give purpose and direction for your speech and allow you to measure success. In today’s world, measuring all activity is a must. You’ve probably heard of SMART objectives, which is a very useful acronym on how to structure any business objective but what I want you to do is to switch the focus. Away from you and to your audience, who are actually more important than you. It’s not what you want to achieve…it’s what the audience want to get out of listening to you talk.
My experience has shown that business presentation audiences want to do one of three things. As a result of listening to you, they want to be able to do something, or understand something, or agree to do something.
Naturally your talk might want to help them do a few of these objectives but you do have to be very careful in not trying to achieve too much.
Audience and Time
The audience is king, and should be put up there on the throne. How much time to we spend researching our audience:
Who they are?
Why are they attending?
What time of day is it going to be?
What knowledge do they already have?
What attitudes and beliefs do they have?
How many of them are there?
What’s their background
Venue
Often overlooked in our preparation, is the actual venue you’ll be speaking at. Now it might be the company’s board room which you’ve used dozens of times before but it might be a local hotel for example, which you don’t know about. The golden rule is to own the venue yourself, not nip out and buy it, but become very close to it. If your presentation is important enough, visit the venue to assess where the screen will be, where you’ll sit, the air conditioning, windows, the microphone etc.
Here’s a tip if you have to present to an audience around a traditional board room table. You know the type – enormous and too heavy to even contemplate moving and often highly polished. Big comfy chairs too. And the worst thing is that the screen is right at the front of the table where you are supposed to present from. The trick here is to remove the chairs in the bottom left hand part of the table and make the whole corner your delivery zone. The screen can stay where it is and because you’ve moved some chairs where your delivery corner is, the whole audience can see you and the screen.
Content
At long last, I hear you shout, the actual content of the presentation. The most common mistake that we all do is put too much content into our presentations. We can bombard our audience with just too much to take in one swallow. Have a look at these stats which confirm how much of your content audiences recall:
100% - is what you plan to say in your presentation
80% - is what you remember to say
50% - is what your audience hears
30% - is what your audience remembers
15% - is what they recall 3 hours later
5% - is what
Voiding the biggest myth about buying or starting a business with your own cashHave you ever said to yourself one time or another " I would give anything if I could have my own business, but I don't have the money." Well, you're in for a huge and shocking surprise. You don’t actually need any of your own money- not a penny of it, and the money you do require is readily available from others, often from the most unexpected of sources.So you can have the American dream—being your own boss and not having to answer to anyone, taking home all the profit—all without putti
My experience has shown that business presentation audiences want to do one of three things. As a result of listening to you, they want to be able to do something, or understand something, or agree to do something.
Naturally your talk might want to help them do a few of these objectives but you do have to be very careful in not trying to achieve too much.
Audience and Time
The audience is king, and should be put up there on the throne. How much time to we spend researching our audience:
Who they are?
Why are they attending?
What time of day is it going to be?
What knowledge do they already have?
What attitudes and beliefs do they have?
How many of them are there?
What’s their background
Venue
Often overlooked in our preparation, is the actual venue you’ll be speaking at. Now it might be the company’s board room which you’ve used dozens of times before but it might be a local hotel for example, which you don’t know about. The golden rule is to own the venue yourself, not nip out and buy it, but become very close to it. If your presentation is important enough, visit the venue to assess where the screen will be, where you’ll sit, the air conditioning, windows, the microphone etc.
Here’s a tip if you have to present to an audience around a traditional board room table. You know the type – enormous and too heavy to even contemplate moving and often highly polished. Big comfy chairs too. And the worst thing is that the screen is right at the front of the table where you are supposed to present from. The trick here is to remove the chairs in the bottom left hand part of the table and make the whole corner your delivery zone. The screen can stay where it is and because you’ve moved some chairs where your delivery corner is, the whole audience can see you and the screen.
Content
At long last, I hear you shout, the actual content of the presentation. The most common mistake that we all do is put too much content into our presentations. We can bombard our audience with just too much to take in one swallow. Have a look at these stats which confirm how much of your content audiences recall:
100% - is what you plan to say in your presentation
80% - is what you remember to say
50% - is what your audience hears
30% - is what your audience remembers
15% - is what they recall 3 hours later
5% - is what
Unless you've had your head in the sand you realize that we are living in a changing world, a changing universe, a changing marketplace. Change is everywhere.You can't avoid change. You can't ignore change. You can't prevent change. You just have to live with it!And if you fight change you'll ultimately end up the loser.So how do you deal with change? And if you're a leader, perhaps the more important question is, "How do you help your people deal with change?"The truth is…"People resist change with every fiber of their being!"They would
Audience and Time
The audience is king, and should be put up there on the throne. How much time to we spend researching our audience:
Who they are?
Why are they attending?
What time of day is it going to be?
What knowledge do they already have?
What attitudes and beliefs do they have?
How many of them are there?
What’s their background
Venue
Often overlooked in our preparation, is the actual venue you’ll be speaking at. Now it might be the company’s board room which you’ve used dozens of times before but it might be a local hotel for example, which you don’t know about. The golden rule is to own the venue yourself, not nip out and buy it, but become very close to it. If your presentation is important enough, visit the venue to assess where the screen will be, where you’ll sit, the air conditioning, windows, the microphone etc.
Here’s a tip if you have to present to an audience around a traditional board room table. You know the type – enormous and too heavy to even contemplate moving and often highly polished. Big comfy chairs too. And the worst thing is that the screen is right at the front of the table where you are supposed to present from. The trick here is to remove the chairs in the bottom left hand part of the table and make the whole corner your delivery zone. The screen can stay where it is and because you’ve moved some chairs where your delivery corner is, the whole audience can see you and the screen.
Content
At long last, I hear you shout, the actual content of the presentation. The most common mistake that we all do is put too much content into our presentations. We can bombard our audience with just too much to take in one swallow. Have a look at these stats which confirm how much of your content audiences recall:
100% - is what you plan to say in your presentation
80% - is what you remember to say
50% - is what your audience hears
30% - is what your audience remembers
15% - is what they recall 3 hours later
5% - is what
Do you know anyone who is afraid of talking about himself, afraid to blow his own horn? I am not referring to a narcissistic person who believes he is the ‘greatest thing since sliced bread’. I mean someone who is reluctant to let others know about his on-the-job or personal successes.Talking about oneself tends to conjure up images of conceit, self-centredness, egotism and the likes. It’s especially difficult when so many of us have been conditioned to believe that it is wrong to call attention to ourselves. On the contrary, it’s when we don’t, that opportunities pass us
Here’s a tip if you have to present to an audience around a traditional board room table. You know the type – enormous and too heavy to even contemplate moving and often highly polished. Big comfy chairs too. And the worst thing is that the screen is right at the front of the table where you are supposed to present from. The trick here is to remove the chairs in the bottom left hand part of the table and make the whole corner your delivery zone. The screen can stay where it is and because you’ve moved some chairs where your delivery corner is, the whole audience can see you and the screen.
Content
At long last, I hear you shout, the actual content of the presentation. The most common mistake that we all do is put too much content into our presentations. We can bombard our audience with just too much to take in one swallow. Have a look at these stats which confirm how much of your content audiences recall:
100% - is what you plan to say in your presentation
80% - is what you remember to say
50% - is what your audience hears
30% - is what your audience remembers
15% - is what they recall 3 hours later
5% - is what
Like most organizations, schools in the United States are subject to constant budget stress. Important athletic and scholastic programs are subject to budget cuts as demographics change and taxpayers become increasingly budget aware. As a result, schools include fund raising resources in their planning for programs.Education should rank high on the list of tax payer funding. With exception of defense, it is hard to imagine a governmental effort that is more important to our country than good education. Education and schools focus on our future leaders and it is in the scho
Content
At long last, I hear you shout, the actual content of the presentation. The most common mistake that we all do is put too much content into our presentations. We can bombard our audience with just too much to take in one swallow. Have a look at these stats which confirm how much of your content audiences recall:
100% - is what you plan to say in your presentation
80% - is what you remember to say
50% - is what your audience hears
30% - is what your audience remembers
15% - is what they recall 3 hours later
5% - is what the audience recalls 3 days later
Copy what the professionals do. And that is to limit the number of points you want to make. Aristotle once said that presentations are easy – you make your point and then back it up. Use arguments, stats, stories, anecdotes, participation, quotes, graphics, pictures. It’s what the pro’s do. They make a point and then support it.
Visuals
The definition of a visual aid is that it is something for the audience to look at that helps them get the message. Once you designed the content and you know what you want to do, then is the time to consider any additional visual aids that might help. Challenge yourself not to use slides all the time. Visuals can be created in people’s heads with a well crafted story, a metaphor, an interaction exercise, a physical prop, demonstrations and so on. Don’t forget you…you are the most important visual aid for the audience to see and trust and believe, not a piece of machinery that displays stuff on a screen.
Thorough preparation will equal thorough success. It’s a bit of a clich? now but so true.
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