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Articles: Delivery - 0 views

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      While I am not passionate about the subject of Personal Hygiene, I am passionate about presenting the Good Manuafacturing Practices topics and helping the production personnel be passionate about delivering a safe and qaulity product.
  • The audience wants to like you and they will give you a few minutes at the beginning to engage them — don’t miss the opportunity.
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      Each year that I do this presentation it gets more personal as I work with and get to know more of the staff each year.
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  • Audience attention is greatest at the opening and then again when you say something like “In conclusion….”
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      Very true. Most people will remember the first thing you said and the lst thing you said and so it goes...
  • Removing physical barriers between you and the audience will help you build rapport and make a connection.
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      I need to work on my boss about getting a hand held remote so that all the speakers can do this.
  • If you press the “B” key while your PowerPoint or Keynote slide is showing, the screen will go blank
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      I did not know that. The "B" key will now be in my arsenal.
  • "When you prepare and rehearse the presentation—out loud, over many hours and many days—you'll come across as much more engaging as a speaker and effortless."
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      I do rehearse, I just need to do it more than I have in the past.
  • "We know through research that 93 percent of the impression you leave on somebody has little to do with content and everything to do with body language and verbal ability—how you talk, sound, look and what you're wearing," Gallo says. "Only about 7 percent of the actual words or content is important."
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      I try to make sure I am comfortable in the clothes that I am wearing and that translates to me being cmfortable presenting.
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Articles: Design - 0 views

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      Somehow that simple idea got very lost along the way.
  • “Sorry I missed your presentation. I hear it was great. Can you just send me your PowerPoint slides?” But if they are good slides, they will be of little use without you.
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      If someone had said this to me, I would have. Now if they say it to me I still will send them the slides. Ha Ha.
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  • You can take your own high-quality photographs with your digital camera,
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      I ran into soem object that I need for my presentation that were "iffy" for me in the copyright area, so I decided to take my own pictures instead. I feel great about how it turned out.
  • So make sure your slides pass what I call the glance test: People should be able to comprehend each one in about three seconds
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      Love this idea. It's a good way for me to see if I am travelling down the right road.
  • Live long and prosper.
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      I found out that "Live long and prosper" was added by Leonard Nimoy for character and was based in his Jewish teachings.
  • By getting out of the Slide View and into the Slide Sorter view, you can see how the logical flow of your presentation is progressing. In this view you may decide to break up one slide into, say, two-three slides so that your presentation has a more natural and logical flow or process.
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      I used the sticky notes at the begginnig to check the flow of my presentation. I will use the sorter to check the presentation at the end of the creation process.
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Articles: Preparation - 3 views

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      This is my most common mistake. I know I tend to cram too much information. I am taking the same source document I used for the first presentation to try to re-do the presentation from scratch
  • Simple does not mean stupid. Frankly, thinking that the notion of simplifying is stupid is just plain, well, “stupid.” Simple can be hard for the presenter, but it will be appreciated by the audience. Simplicity takes more forethought and planning on your part because you have to think very hard about what to include and what can be left out
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      Simplifying my presentation will be the smartest but the most difficult thing I have done in a long time.
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  • I suggest you start your planning in “analog mode.” That is, rather than diving right into PowerPoint (or Keynote), the best presenters often scratch out their ideas and objectives with a pen and paper. Personally, I use a large whiteboard in my office to sketch out my ideas (when I was at Apple, I had one entire wall turned into a whiteboard!).
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      I am looking forward to this step. my sister-in-law quilts and does this step to see what the quilt will look like laid out. I bought sticky notes just for the occasion,
  • When building the content of your presentation always put yourself in the shoes of the audience and ask “so what?” Really ask yourself the tough questions throughout the planning process.
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      This idea of "so what?" was my a=ha moment. It will probably be the one question to help me determine what is really important.
  • Ten slides.
  • Twenty minutes
  • Thirty-point font
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      10/20/30 was another a-ha moment for me. I had not heard the 10 slides rule before. I had heard that 20 minutes was the ideal time and 30 point font for projecting. I am looking forward to getting to see if I can make my presentation work
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Story and Storytelling | Presentation Zen: How to Craft a Presentation with Messages th... - 3 views

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      I liked this quote as I started in a school setting and now find myself in the corporate world. I really liked the term "corporte sominex". It rings very true.
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Presentation Zen: Is it finally time to ditch PowerPoint? - 9 views

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      Sweller's quote was the perfect way to bring together the use of visual and auditory modality and the danger of the bullet point redundancy actually decreasing understanding. Armed wth this information it is time for me to look at all my presentations and change them into something that works.
  • "It is effective to speak to a diagram, because it presents information in a different form. But it is not effective to speak the same words that are written, because it is putting too much load on the mind and decreases your ability to understand what is being presented."                                                        — John Sweller
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Articles: Presentation "Awakening" - 11 views

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      Weird thought: I've turned my thinking on this to include slides of how I would make up slide for the rules.
  • IMPORTANT: Don’t hand out the written stuff at the beginning! If you do, people will read the memo while you’re talking and ignore you. Instead, your goal is to get them to sit back, trust you and take in the emotional and intellectual points of your pr
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      I have experienced this first hand. I will work at taking this advice and I know I should have better results than in the past.
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The Process | Presentation Zen: How to Craft a Presentation with Messages that Stick | ... - 2 views

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      I love old movies and when I read about the storyboarding, I instantly was back at the moveis and thought about how they put together a movie (storytelling). This concept has cahnged my outlook on what it really means to present a topic, rather than "Death by Powerpoint"
  • Each situation and each individual is different, and there are indeed many paths to better presentations, including better preparation. My personal approach moving from rough analog sketches to digital slides is not uncommon at all. I have been surprised, however, that for the most part, individual professionals, entrepreneurs, and students usually just open up slideware, type about a dozen subject slides, and then fill them with talking points. This is not an effective approach, nor is it a method I recommend although it is common
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      This is so how I have done Power Point. It also the way I was shown, Wish I would have had this information sooner.
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