Presentations

Prepare:

• Know what you’re talking about 
• Plan to a story you want to tell and break down slides to remind yourself
• Use imagery to enhance what you’re saying and reinforce points you’re covering 
• Limit text as lots of text takes away from what your saying 

Relax:

• Fight or flight reaction to facing crowds
• Easiest way to relax is to prepare and rehearse so you are fully conversant with what your talking about 
• Keep it simple

Speak Clearly:

Take your time and try not to read from notes

Introduce yourself, simply tell people who you are 

Smile!

Tell them what they're going to see:

set out what you want to cover during the presentation 

Make eye contact, pause and relax and remember to smile 

Take your time, theres no need to rush

Pauses:

a few pauses will relax you and helps people catch up and consider potential questions 

Tell it a story: 

• Beginning
• Middle 
• End 

Consider adding a video:

• it will allow for a break and pause 
• lift a presentation, make it more interesting 

If you use bullet points:

think about build ups so there not read all at once, this can also be applied to images 

Checklist:

• why am I doing it 
• what am I trying to get over 
• what do I need to show 
• get a rough draft together, time it out and refine 
• Check quality of images 

Spell check if using words

Final file preparation 

Hardware:

• Check files on more than one computer 
• Make sure the its saved in the correct format 
• Save onto one or two memory sticks 
• Save as a pdf 
• Test on projectors 

Consider:

Printing presentation, bind with a nice cover and leave so it can be reviewed