Powerful Presentations

1. owerful Presentations:
Persuasive Pitches, Poignant PowerPoints,
and Prezis with Pizzazz
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2. 3-4-1: It’s like Happy Hour on New Skills!

3. A pitch is an
invitation to
collaboration

4. Three Stories:
1. Self
2. Us
3. Now

5. Ask for money
and you’ll get
advice.
Ask for advice
and you’ll get
both.

6. owerful Presentations:
Persuasive Pitches, Poignant PowerPoints,
and Prezis with Pizzazz
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7. Giving Powerful Presentations
1. How to plan your presentation
2. How to make your presentation
3. How to give your presentation
Pro Tip:
Agendas really
are helpful.
They’re not
spoilers.

8. If you remember only one thing,
remember this…

9. The verb is
Give

10. Break any presentation rule you want if it
is truly in the best interest of your audience.
You’re there for them.

11. If you’d
like to
remember a
few more
things…
Audience
Platform
Content
Locating your talk is
the first step in
planning your talk.

12. Audience
4 Slides
SES
10 Slides
GS 14-15
20-40
Slides
GS 9-13
All the
slides you
want
Academics
Attention Span
Pay Grade
Attention span
is inversely
correlated to
pay grade.

13. Platform
Happy Hour TED Talk TPS Report

14. Content

15. Giving Powerful Presentations
1. How to plan your presentation
2. How to make your presentation
3. How to give your presentation
Pro Tip:
If you have a
lot of content,
mark out
chunks for
people

16. The verb is
Give

17. The Black and White Rule:
–Will your work be projected or printed?
Platform Governs Making

18. is about emotions
Content comes
from the speaker
Slides set the
emotional tone:
big pictures and
evocative words

19. • Graphs have
feelings too
• Don’t be afraid of
empty space.
• You can always make
a page of takeaway facts
• Use color to guide your
audience’s eyes
is about emotions

20. is about clarity of logic.
Basic Rules of Memos Apply
• Assume your audience hasn’t
read it when you present.
• Assume they will give it to
someone who didn’t hear you
present.
• Use headings to demark
information for easy scanning.
• Write clearly and concisely.
• Try to limit yourself to 5 bullet
points in any list.
And Some Basic Visual Rules
• You can put much more
information per slide.
• Use color, but don’t depend on
it.
• Stay away from photographs,
instead use drawings, diagrams
and graphs.
• Try to keep objects visually
aligned with each other –
symmetry is inherently pleasing.

21. How to Make Your Presentation
Faster

22. How to Make Your Presentation
Fastest

23. Giving Powerful Presentations
1. How to plan your presentation
2. How to make your presentation
3. How to give your presentation
Pro Tip:
Respect the
time you’ve
been allotted.

24. The verb is
Give

25. 3 Steps to better
presentations:
• Rehearse
• Rehearse
• Rehearse

26. I’m going to say some stuff about…
I’m sure the room will be set up…
Just a few last second changes…

27. Further Reading
• To make your presentations better:
Give Your Speech, Change the World, by
Nick Morgan
• To make your pitches more persuasive:
To Sell is Human, by Dan Pink
• To make your data come alive:
Visualize This, by Nathan Yau
• On improving your creative skills generally:
Steal Like an Artist, Austin Kleon

28. Photo Credits
• Slide 2 Happy Hour A Paris by beyrouth
• Slide 3 Wedding Invitations by Mathew Hutchinson
• Slide 4 Clip Art – sometimes it doesn’t suck.
• Slide 5 Advice by Lauglin Elkin
• Slide 9Gift by Asenat29
• Slide 13 Pheezy teaches music! By jm3, Goring Clean
Coal by jurveston, Helping me with my TPS reports by
cutoutwitch
• Slide 18 Changing the Way We Eat by TEDxManhattan
• Slide 25 Rehearsing! By Jonathan Haynes
• Slide 26 Red Flagged by Daniel R. Blume

29. owerful Presentations:
Persuasive Pitches, Poignant PowerPoints,
and Prezis with Pizzazz
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