Good and bad presentations......
Good and bad presentations......
(OP)
IRStuff has a nice FAQ on presentations and for those who want more there is plenty on the internet, but don't accept it all as gospel.
Here is a link to the "top 20 reasons Presentations suck".
These are all valid reasons but some are a bit trivial, (and so think some of the commentators).
I think anyone who has sat through a few presentations should have a good idea of plenty of other good reasons presentations suck.
One of my favourites is the "Kindergarten reading class" where the presenter reads his slides to the audience.
These web sites and helpful tips are all very well but if your company expects you to give good presentations, then they could do worse than pay for some professional training.
I started giving presentations some decades ago and my first untutored efforts probably ticked all the top 20 and then some.
Perhaps one of the keys to learning involves seeing what you dislike in other peoples presentations and making sure you don't do the same. Another is to rehearse rehearse and rehearse. If your presentation doesn't flow perhaps it is that your material doesn't flow or is not cohesive.
When you rehearse, video your presentation and then watch it back critically......
Anyone else got any tips on how to give a good presentation or how not to give a bad one?
Here is a link to the "top 20 reasons Presentations suck".
These are all valid reasons but some are a bit trivial, (and so think some of the commentators).
I think anyone who has sat through a few presentations should have a good idea of plenty of other good reasons presentations suck.
One of my favourites is the "Kindergarten reading class" where the presenter reads his slides to the audience.
These web sites and helpful tips are all very well but if your company expects you to give good presentations, then they could do worse than pay for some professional training.
I started giving presentations some decades ago and my first untutored efforts probably ticked all the top 20 and then some.
Perhaps one of the keys to learning involves seeing what you dislike in other peoples presentations and making sure you don't do the same. Another is to rehearse rehearse and rehearse. If your presentation doesn't flow perhaps it is that your material doesn't flow or is not cohesive.
When you rehearse, video your presentation and then watch it back critically......
Anyone else got any tips on how to give a good presentation or how not to give a bad one?





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Did you mean to include a link?
David
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My number one no-no isn't included, which is don't have "horse charts" i.e., don't have charts that basically say, "this is a horse." Every chart should have a purpose, and that purpose should be essentially spelled out in the title. Zillions of charts have a graph of something with a title like, "Measured Data." Is the data good, or bad, or what? What the heck was that chart supposed to tell me?
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JMW
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Anyway, there is a point to this story; if like me you're in a situation where you will be giving presentations year after year to the same groups, try to add something unexpected which they will remember since it will both make your presentations memorable, but it will also great an expectation which you can leverage to get and keep the audiences attention.
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I doubt I have ever given the same or even similar presentations in the last 15 years.
JMW
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I fell asleep in my own presentation once... I had an audience of one and he was already asleep.
This is some time ago and standard sales training stuff. Conferences are more fun.
JMW
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