GAJAH ANNUAL REPORT 2015 | 1

Presentation Skills

Richard BrooksK International

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Be interesting earlyPresentations are dull

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The Magic Formula

• Tell them what you’re going to tell them• Tell them• Tell them what you told them

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Managing Nerves• Get there early• No coffee, drugs, alcohol• Prepare, prepare, prepare• Look people in the eyes• Run through in the room• Move around

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Technology• Assume its not going to

work. You might have to present without powerpoint.

• Someone else’s laptop, someone else’s screen.

• No fonts installed, no internet connection.

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Practice > Feedback > Get good

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Use Stories

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Use Social Media• Use it to your advantage. 10% of the

room will be on twitter.

• Make the content ‘tweetable’.

• Put your slides on slideshare.

• Put hashtag and name on all slides.

• Share with your own social network before, during and after. Link it to our network.

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Avoid Plagiarism• Cite the relevant

research. • Use

Harvard referencing method.

• Presentations, books, papers, websites… anything can be cited.

Cite example

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HandleQuestions

mmmm…. Great… any other

comments or questions?

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HandleQuestionsRepeat the question

(gives you time to think)… then answer

it generically.

mmmm…. Great point. Let’s open

that up to the floor.

I’m an asshole and want to ask a really

difficult question that I think you can’t answer.

Great question. The question you should be asking

is… and then answer that one.

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