presentation skills
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GAJAH ANNUAL REPORT 2015 | 1
Presentation Skills
Richard BrooksK International
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Be interesting earlyPresentations are dull
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The Magic Formula
• Tell them what you’re going to tell them• Tell them• Tell them what you told them
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Managing Nerves• Get there early• No coffee, drugs, alcohol• Prepare, prepare, prepare• Look people in the eyes• Run through in the room• Move around
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Technology• Assume its not going to
work. You might have to present without powerpoint.
• Someone else’s laptop, someone else’s screen.
• No fonts installed, no internet connection.
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Practice > Feedback > Get good
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Use Stories
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Use Social Media• Use it to your advantage. 10% of the
room will be on twitter.
• Make the content ‘tweetable’.
• Put your slides on slideshare.
• Put hashtag and name on all slides.
• Share with your own social network before, during and after. Link it to our network.
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Avoid Plagiarism• Cite the relevant
research. • Use
Harvard referencing method.
• Presentations, books, papers, websites… anything can be cited.
Cite example
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HandleQuestions
mmmm…. Great… any other
comments or questions?
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HandleQuestionsRepeat the question
(gives you time to think)… then answer
it generically.
mmmm…. Great point. Let’s open
that up to the floor.
I’m an asshole and want to ask a really
difficult question that I think you can’t answer.
Great question. The question you should be asking
is… and then answer that one.
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