Lesson 1 'Intro: Presentation skills for entrepreneurs

1. Presentation Skills
for Entrepreneurs
Lesson

2. Overview
me
the course
the presentation
preparation

3. Me

4. About the Course
• Presentations and Meetings
• 1Elevator pitch
• 4x3 hours + 2x3 hours (2 gr.)
• 1 ‘long’ pitch
• Speaking exercises
• Useful vocabulary and phrases
• Pronunciation and intonation

5. Teaching Method
• Reflection
• Student autonomy
• Context-related language teaching
• Nestor
• Teacher and peer feedback

6. Learning Method
• Reflection
• Self-assessment
• Peer assessment
• Nestor
• Open to criticism
• Collaboration
• English!
• ‘Practice ground’

7. Nestor Collaborate Etiquette
• Leave your webcam on
• Turn your microphone off when you are not
speaking
• Be active!

8. Presentation skills for entrepreneurs
• Discuss with a partner:
- Why do you need presentation skills?
- Which situations are there in which
presentation skills are important?
- What is marketing?
- How do presentations relate to marketing?
- What is a pitch?
- Who is your audience when you pitch?
- What are the characteristics of your audience?

9. Presentation skills for entrepreneurs
• Presenting to persuade - Seth Godin

10. Presentation skills for entrepreneurs
• The goals of a presentation (your deck)
• Getting in front of people who care
• Pitching for your smallest possible audience
• Earn attention
• Earn trust
• Earn enrollment - ‘If I do this, will you do this?’