How to Make a Successful Presentation Chances are… • You are a school student who at some point will need to produce a • And, you are nervous about it. Chances are… •  You are sick and tired of sitting through terrible PowerPoint presentations. THIS PRESENTATION WILL……. 1. Give you a simple and effective tips to prepare for presentations. 2. Walk you through the simple steps that will get you there. AEOMISSS •  •  •  •  •  •  •  •  9 principles to consider Audience Energy Organization Material Interaction Surprise Staging Self‐awareness AEOMISSS Audience. Look at the audience – If you ever wondered where you should be looking when presenting, the answer is right in front of you. Don’t just single out one person, but instead try to make eye contact with numerous people throughout the room. If you don’t do this then you aren’t engaging the audience, you are just talking to yourself. This can result in an utter lack of attention from your audience. AEOMISSS Energy. Show some movement – You probably know that you need to show some movement when speaking, but naturally you may forget to do so. Make sure you show some gestures or pace around a bit (not too much) on the stage when speaking. Remember, no one likes watching a stiff. People are more engaged with an animated speaker. AXIOM: A high‐energy presentation is, generally, much more effective than a low energy AEOMISSS Organization. Don’t over prepare – If you rehearse your presentation too much it will sound like it (in a bad way). Granted, you need to be prepared enough to know what you are going to talk about but make sure your presentation flows naturally instead of sounding memorized. Usually if you ask experienced speakers what you shouldn’t do, they’ll tell you not to rehearse your presentation too much because then it won’t sound natural. AEOMISSS Material. Use a variety of material. Include‐ §  Hand-outs. §  Illustrations (e.g. Advertisements, Posters) §  Videos. §  Props (e.g. Products). AEOMISSS Interaction. •  Be natural and alert •  Building in interac.on does not always work e.g. how many of you have been to site xyz.com? (What if the answer is zero?) AEOMISSS Surprise •  Use an image or anecdote to start. •  Be creative! AEOMISSS Staging. •  Have a plan for moving the speakers along if •  you have multiple presenters AEOMISSS Self-‐Awareness Watch what you say – You usually don’t notice when you say “uhm”, “ah”, or any other useless word frequently, but the audience does. It gets quite irritating; so much that some members of the audience will probably count how many times you say these useless words Differentiate yourself – If you don’t do something unique compared to all the other presenters the audience has heard, they won’t remember you. You are branding yourself when you speak, so make sure you do something unique and memorable. Got all that? •  •  •  •  •  •  •  •  Audience Energy Organiza.on Material Interac.on Surprise Staging Self-‐awareness A‐E‐O‐M‐I‐S‐S‐S •  •  •  •  •  •  •  •  Audience Energy Organiza.on Material Interac.on Surprise Staging Self-‐awareness TASK Please can you get into your groups and you have 5 min to pick the best online CV and you have 30min to prepare a presenta.on