Present with Clarity and Confidence. Public speaking coach Ms. Swallow shares slides from a workshop on how to make your content easily understood, and tips how to speak with confidence.

1. Good Morning!
Present with Clarity
and Confidence
Marianna Swallow
mariannaswallow.com
for
General Growth Properties

2. Ever had this happen?

3. Present with Clarity
and Confidence
Marianna Swallow
mariannaswallow.com
for
General Growth Properties

4. Agenda
¡ Meet each other
¡ Make content relatable
¡ Present data effectively
¡ Present with confidence
¡ Practice!

5. Let’s Meet You!
¡ Name & Role
¡ Favorite Accounting Term
¡ Presenting Aspect
You Don’t Love
¡ First concert?

6. Goal
Give you skills and techniques to
present and share data more
effectively.
What’s your goal?

7. Get into your audience’s
mindset
“When puppets or dolls fall into
our hands, we know how to
project stories into them, how to
talk in their voices, how their
actions set them apart as
individuals.”
- Author Dan Chaon

8. Present Data Effectively
“We should work to present data
more effectively so that our work is
easily read, comprehended, and
understood.”
- Stephanie Evergreen,
@evalu8r

9. Is this graph effective?
Source: stephanieevergreen.com

10. How about this one?
Source: stephanieevergreen.com

11. Guidelines for
presenting data

12. Guidelines for
presenting data

13. Presenting with
Confidence

14. Notes on confidence…
¡ Comes with practice, experience
¡ No magic formula
¡ Presenting = Conversation
¡ Remember: You are the expert

15. Your introduction
¡ Keep it short – start strong
¡ Frame what you’re going to say
¡ Always take the positive

16. Final Presentation
¡ Time to revisit and prep
¡ Work with partner(s)
¡ Will videotape 3 – 4 m.
presentation
¡ 1 min. of feedback
¡ You keep video

17. Break and
Prep Time

18. Thank You!
Marianna Swallow
mariannaswallow.com