Better Presentations

Plan!Show!

Talk!Demonstrate!

Ask!

{Present}!Answer!

Tell!Move!

Explain!Engage!

TOOLS!These are my

STAGE!This is my

^ Don’t blow it

1. outline!

SKETCH!

A.!

B.!

STORY!Focus on telling a

OPTIONS!Give yourself several

A.!

D.!E.!C.!

F.!B.!

2. visual!

Scan the text that you are reading for emotion. Things like love, hate or an intense passion for tacos. The idea here is that you are getting down to the emotional level of whatever the story is. Scanning texts takes a little time, but once you know what to look for your presentation will be greatly improved. Whether it’s a story about a client’s historical foundation in the eastern Carolina mountains, or a twisted tale about a pirate’s first time dancing the two step in Tijuana, or even a case study highlighting the detailed connection of chocolate to the mood swings in infant pandas. It doesn’t really matter the text, because everything has an emotion, and human beings connect emotion to every decision they make in their lives. Love-life, business, what you eat for dinner, the movie you watch on Saturday…all of these things relate back to an emotional instin

IMAGES!(Use free license!!)

NERVOUS!Sort of

RELAXED!

ANGRY!A little

VERY!SPOOKED!

Turn This

This new business direction left !Mark a little bit unsettled.!

STRESSED!Mark’s feeling a bit

To This.

Visual Slides

Your Presentation

3. brevity!

CONDENSE!Y UR

THOUGHTS

honest funny Brief

Informative Relaxed

fresh Visual Colorful

Bold Memorable

Inspiring Creative Meaningful Quotable interesting

The idea

All of your thoughts

Remember the movie INCEPTION?

Hunt for the core IDEA!

People aren’t going to remember long run on sentences with tons of words per slide for 45 slides long that go on and on and on spelling out each tiny little detail that reads more like an old

encyclopedia than a PowerPoint presentation. Seriously, who wants to be beaten over the head with tons and tons of facts that they are supposed to

remember after a single 30 minute presentation? I don’t…do you? I’m not

even taking notes…what were we talking about? !

INSTEAD!

Just keep it short.!

4. words!

TTU: Engagement strategy Initial campaign ideas 1.  Admissions promotion, connecting freshmen online to build community feel 2.  Student artwork showcase on Facebook, links from Twitter 3.  Showcase school events (commencement live Twitter feed, ball games,

dunk team events) on social channels 4.  Connecting student athletes to coaches before the school year starts online 5.  Teachers on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube providing students with

educational resources (office hours, short lessons) via video 6.  Spirit week - to promote online/offline community and TTU pride

Build relationships 1.  Support similar Facebook pages, Twitter accounts* 2.  Ask for user submitted content on Facebook (photos, answers to questions,

stories of their time with TTU) 3.  Respond quickly to user comments/posts 4.  Encourage audience driven engagement on all channels via two-way

conversation 5.  Target both online & residential students and potential students

Terrible use of text

Better use of text

5. style!

make it yours, give it your own

VOICE!

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OUTLINE…1!VISUALS…2!BREVITY…3!WORDS…4!STYLE…5!

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