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7 Tips To Ensure Your
Presentations Are Not Boring
Peter Dhu
“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
COUNCIL BANS DEEP SIGHSNovember 29, 2013 · by Your Herald
NEGATIVE body language is to be banned at Melville city council under a new, more
restrictive code of conduct for elected members.
Examples of outlawed behaviour include shrugging of shoulders, rolling of eyes, deep
sigh, finger pointing, turning our back on someone, standing over, throwing of
documents, slamming of fists or slamming of the door;
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
