A Few Thoughts on Presentations
- Always put yourself in the shoes of your audience.
- Prepare for the obvious questions. [Consider why that is important.]
- Don't start a presentation unless you have the time to do it properly.
- Generalizations need examples to bring them into focus.
- Examples, once they begin to multiply, need generalizations to link them together.
- Any slide which does not strengthen or clarify the message should be omitted.
- The same goes for examples.
- It is better to pass on giving a presentation than to give one when you are not ready. [Anyone who has done otherwise will know what I mean.]
- Never try to portray a penguin as a peacock. Your credibility will become a dodo.
2 comments:
I have done these well, and I have done these badly--very badly on one occasion. Mostly I'm happy not to have to do them anymore.
Larry,
There can be a fine line between the presentations that work and the ones which do not and, as presenters, we often learn more from the latter.
They are not easily forgotten.
Michael
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