Effective Presentation Strategies: Understanding Message, Audience, and Delivery
Enhance your presentation skills with this comprehensive guide on understanding your message, audience, and delivery techniques. Learn how to create engaging content, connect with your audience, and deliver impactful presentations. Avoid common pitfalls and master best practices for successful presentations.
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Bart Flewelling March 2016 Planning Presentations 1
Summary Objective: How to Put Together and Deliver an Effective Presentation Understanding Your Message Understanding Your Audience Combining Message with Audience Effectively Presentation Delivery Best Practices Common Pitfalls Questions 2
Understanding Your Message Who is contributing to your message? Stakeholders your teacher, your boss, your peers Customers your audience Presentations lost in translation Can you boil down your message into one sentence? Can you create a max of 3 bullet points outlining your objectives? Do you have passion, or at least some strong feelings, about your topic? Technical or specialized information Calibrated to the audience Presented in the most simple manner possible 3
Understanding Your Audience Think of your Audience as your Customer You have a message and an objective, but they may not understand it or share it if you do not focus on them and their needs The Audience are also Collaborators In your anticipating their needs and validating them, they dictate the course of the presentation Who is in the Audience and who is important? Decision makers whom you might be trying to persuade Members who need to learn something from you and apply it 4
Putting It Together All presentations must at least be interesting! The Why why should the audience care about your message? Getting the audience s attention A Story, Demonstration, or Visual Aid Overview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-vHj4a6RI8 A Joke, or a Shocking Statement 2016 Oscars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NU31kz8r4k Storyline Approach Current State and Future State Call to Action PowerPoint, the Deck Colors, Fonts, Clip Art, Animations 5
Delivery Best Practices Preview, View, Review Tell them what you are going to tell them Tell them Tell them what you told them Time: 60/40 guideline Nerves Be prepared to improvise Eye contact 6
Common Pitfalls and Solutions Audience Issues Seemingly irrelevant questions from the audience Bored or distracted audience, other interruptions Technical problems Time there is never enough of it 7
Review Understand your message Build credibility by being a subject matter expert Make it easy on yourself SimplifyYour Message SimplifyYour Presentation Calibrate the message to your audience Anticipate their needs and validate them Get feedback, anticipate questions Practice, prepare! Take pitfalls in stride 8
