tuesday tip

CEO

04 de junho de 2019

Putting together a Great Presentation

Built a public presentation is always stressful and a process with a lot of doubts: What to talk about? Is this even relevant? What do words mean?

So our top 6 tips are:

1. Know your Subject

If you are giving a presentation is because you have something to say, so be sure you know it perfectly, that you know everything you’re going to talk about, relevant things or just little curiosities.

2. Discover your Audience

Presenting at school or at a conference is not the same thing. The way you need to present the information and the language you use should be different. One may be more informal and with a lighter speech to captivate the interest, but the other should be more professional and more focused on content presentation.

3. Separate the Information into groups
• So important, we cannot live without it — the information you absolutely have to share, like definition, the why of your work and the how (if it applies);
• Just for context — history, relevant breakthrough, the information that's going to set the landscape for your work;
• Curiosity — the things that are interesting and add something extra to the presentation but you should only add them if you have time;
• Take it to the trash — the absolutely irrelevant things that you shouldn’t bother and waste your time with it.
4. Choose your Platform for presenting

The way you present your work is important, it needs to be relevant and concise. Whatever way you choose to do it remember people will either listen to you or read what is on the screen, so do not flood the slide with information. Visual information is always easier to assimilate, so be creative and find new ways to present.

5. Practice, Practice, Practice

K. Anders Ericsson created the concept of the 10 000 hours rule, but Malcolm Gladwell put it plain by saying that “you need 10 000 hours to be a phenom” (can you imagine that?). We are not saying you should practice your presentations for 10 000 hours, but the more you do it the better it will be, it will more natural and you will be more comfortable with what you have to do. Practice in your room for your teddy bears, in the mirror or for your dog, but practice a few times so on the day you don’t have to add to the nerves by having to worry about the words you have to say.

6. Test the material Before

In line with the practice of advising, make sure all material is working properly and if there are limitations find a solution to work around them. If something goes wrong on the day you will lose focus and be even more nervous.