The Dark Art of Presentation Skills

What you will learn

• A process to create, display and deliver better presentations.
• Apply these principles for real in a practical presentation exercise.

At this moment how do you feel about presentations in terms of:

1. The process of creation
2. Delivery
3. Your overall performance

The 3 stage process we will follow

Your task

To create & deliver a 2 minute presentation titled "Why you should employ me"

What do we need for this quest


Pen
Paper
Ideas

Step 1: Planning phases. The Brainstorm

• Start with your central theme or idea
• Write all related ideas under sub-topics
• Let your mind run free

Step 1: Central Theme & Brainstorm

Step 2:

Write brief notes about what you want to talk about under each sub-topic

Step 2: Content. Now add what I want to talk about

Step 3

Review, refine, combine
Remove weak ideas. Keep vital stuff
"What can I most talk about naturally and confidently?"
"Does the sub-topic contribute to the main theme?"

Step 3: Review, remove, combine

Step 4. Running order

Now to make the story.
"Which topics naturally relate and flow into each other"

Step 4: Running order to create a story

Step 5. Book ends.

Add your intro and ending
Intro: Create a wow factor
Conclusion: Reinforce main points

The 5 Steps. Planning Summary

• Theme & brainstorm
• Add content
• Review, refine, remove
• Running order & story
• Bookends. Intro & summary

Stage 2:
Content Creation

Consider

Platform
Layout
Your time

Do

Limit yourself to 4-5 points per slide
Use professional looking visuals

Don't

• Create visual clutter
• with endless bullet points
• reading word for word what your audience can read anyway
• a bit like this slide.

Stage 3: Delivery

+practice

Think about how you would read a story to a child

OK LET'S
HAVE A GO!

Summary

1. Planning
2. Creation
3. Delivery