GREAT and RUBBISH presentations in business
Posted on: 15th April 2015
Here is a list of suggestions for what makes a GREAT presentation & what makes a RUBBISH one!
| GREAT PRESENTATIONS: | RUBBISH PRESENTATIONS: |
| • Grab them with an interesting hook to start • Good voice projection • Smiling, friendly, natural approach • Passionate about the theme • Conversational in tone • Clear points • Good use of supporting visuals • Use video to reinforce points • Simple design • Have one clear main point to get across • Have confident body language • Punctuate with relevant examples • Involve your audience • Take questions and allow time for them • Keep to time! • Have a clear conclusion • Make your audience think • Include new topical info • Only include statistics with context • Explain why not just what • Change your pace periodically |
• Rambling and slow starting • Sound like you are reading a script • Reading lots of text on slides • No eye contact with your audience • Seeming unconfident • Looking bored or disinterested • Too long or too short! • Too confusing • Badly designed visuals • No clear point to it all • No examples to back up points • Facing away from audience at the screen • Repeats a point too often • Repeats a point too often!! • Monotone delivery • Seeming to be unprepared • Talking too fast • Data shared too complex • Charts are irrelevant to the message • Charts impossible to read! • Using industry jargon • Speaking down to your audience • Slides contain nothing new • No flow, just lots of bullet points • Doesn’t inspire or motivate |
