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Effective Presentations
How to make sure you never lose your audience
Why are we here?
"Ever struggled to keep the attention of your audience during a presentation? Ever wondered if your client is actually listening to you, or just scrolling through Reddit while on mute? Want to prevent your meetings from turning into monologues? This session aims to remedy all of that!"
- Cindy Rose Mathew, Data Scientist
Ideal Outcomes
What will I get out of this?
- You will get a few thought-starters on ways to begin improving your presentation style
- You will walk away with some ready-to-implement tips to make your presentations more effective
- You will gain a new found respect for Aakarsh, which will consequently feed his ego
FIRST THINGS FIRST
To be a effective presenter, you need...
EMPATHY
Really REALLY put yourself in the listener's shoes
- Is your presentation useful or at least interesting in ANY way?
- Could this have been an email?
- Would you have 'scrolled Reddit' if someone else delivered your presentation?
And finally...
- Did you go through every slide you intended to?
MEMORABILITY
MEMORABILITY
Ways to be memorable:
- Tell a compelling story
- Work on better optics
- Go big or go home!
And finally...
- Make your selfish audience give you that elusive "nod"
HUMOR
- Don't be lazy and use a "relevant" comic strip
- Don't be tacky and rehearse your jokes
- Watch a lot of stand up
If you're not a funny person...
- Talk like a human being and try to smile
BEFORE THE PRESENTATION
- Know the PPO. Send the PPO. State the PPO.
- Work on the story, not the slides
- Identify the "win themes"
THE PRESENTATION
This is it.
OPEN STRONG
THE FLOP
- Small talk is not small
- Kill the introduction
- State the PPO
- Say the ideal outcome out loud; Bonus points if you get them to do it
SAY YOUR STORY
THE TURN
- Start with the big picture or theme and keep going back to it
- Ask questions and let them guide you through the "nods"
- Break the monotony with visuals, examples, stories
- Your slides are S**T; no one cares
CLOSE LIKE A BOSS
THE RIVER
- State outcome; check outcome
- Leave them with a "If you remember nothing else, remember this" message
- Leave them wanting more
LAUNDARY LIST OF TIPS
POSITIONING
- Sit in the center of the room
- Spread your team
- Sit next to the naysayer
INTRODUCTION
- Stand up to meet people walking in
- Practice a firm handshake (list made before COVID)
- Business card only when given
PRESENTATION
- Look at everyone
- Pause before answering
- Walk up to the screen
- Use your hands and change posture
LAUNDARY LIST OF REMOTE TIPS
"But I'm not in the room..."
SLIDE WORK
- Text light and visual heavy
- Try to be non-linear
- Fill up that appendix section with answers to every question
VOICE
- Practice tone inflection
- Laugh, you humorless robot
- Don't..uh..use..kinda..filler...um..words
VIDEO
- Presentable but not formal
- Smile, you joyless machine
- Use your hands but don't fidget
THE BIG REVEAL...
THE META CHECKLIST
PREP
- Worked on the story, not the slides (see exhibit 1)
- Knew the PPO. Sent the PPO. Started with the PPO.
THE OPEN
- Small talked
- Killed the introduction
- Started with the ideal outcome
THE BODY
- Established the theme – empathy, memorability, humor
- Slides were shit; committed to the story
- Got the head nod and/or laughter
- Did not use a comic strip
- Used a new medium to make it memorable
- Went big or went home
- Smiled :)
THE CLOSE
- Landed the BIG reveal
- Closed the meta loop by being more meta
- Finished with “If you remember nothing else…
THE STORY
Exhibit 1
Remember this
If you remember nothing else...
Be empathetic, be memorable and...
try to be funny!