7 Tips To Ensure Your Presentation Is Not Boring

7 Tips To Ensure Your

Presentations Are Not Boring

Peter Dhu

info@peterdhu.com.auwww.peterdhu.com

“There are no boring topics,

only boring presenters”

David Ellis-Jones

7 Tips to ensure that your presentation is not boring

1. Don’t read from your script

2. Don’t read from your PowerPoint slides

3. Involve the audience

4. Be passionate and excited about your topic

5. Use your stories to engage the audience

6. Use appropriate and congruent body language

7. Show the audience that you care about them

Tip # 1 Don’t read from your script

Don’t read from your script

Use a mind map

Use a one page outline

Use headings and bullet

points

Tip # 2 Don’t read from your PowerPoint slides

• People who know what they are talking about don’t need PowerPoint – Steve Jobs

Tip # 2 Don’t read from your PowerPoint slides

• Don’t read from your PowerPoint slides• Don’t do bullet points• Bullet points - is shooting your audience to

death one bullet at a time• The PowerPoint slide is for the audience, not

for you• It is not your teleprompter• It is not your script• It is not your reminder• This is death by PowerPoint

Effective PowerPoint

Use images

Use photos

Use graphs

Use models

PowerPoint should enhance what you are saying – not replace what you are saying

Tip # 3 Involve the audience

Involve the audience – engage them and get them thinking

How to Involve your audience

Tell

Show

Ask

Share

Tip # 4 Be passionate and excited about your topic

“What makes your heart sing”

Steve Jobs

Passion

Conviction Attitude Responsibility Energy

Communicate with CARE

Tip # 5 Use your stories to engage the audience

Use your stories to engage the audience

Tell a story

Make a point

Highlight the benefit

Tip # 6 Use appropriate & congruent body language

Your body speaks louder than your words

Walk the talk

Are you aware of

your body language

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Breaches of the code carry financial penalties.

Tip # 7 Show the audience that you care about them

WiiFM - What’s In It For Me??

Its about the audience

Solve their problem

Remove their pain

Help them achieve their goals

Help them meet their KPI’s

7 Tips to ensure that your presentation is not boring

1. Don’t read from your script

2. Don’t read from your PowerPoint slides

3. Involve the audience

4. Be passionate and excited about your topic

5. Use your stories to engage the audience

6. Use appropriate and congruent body language

7. Show the audience that you care about them

Bonus TipUse humour if you are good at it

“If I can get you to laugh, you like me more, which

makes you more open to my ideas. And, if I can get you

to laugh at the point I am making, by doing so, you

endorse it’s truth.”

John Cleese