Public speaking can be very stressful. Whenever I get up in front of a crowd I go trough panic moment. My hands are shaking and my speaking isn’t clear. But, I’ve found that the more prepared we are, the more confident we feel. The preparation here includes mental preparation, physical preparation, support materials preparation, and don’t forget to enough practice before giving a presentation.
There are few things we
should remember when we speaking such as positive thinking, stories telling,
avoid to read slides or notes, strong and short intro, slow and steady
presentation, confidence, smile, also the strong, crisp, clean, and powerful
end. Don’t forget to prepare for interruptions and questions. If we’re doing
well, we’ll have lots of questions.
There are five simple
rules for creating presentations. The first rule is: Treat audience as king.
The audience deserves to be treated like royalty. Design a presentation that meets their needs,
not just ours. Audiences want to know what we can do for them, why they should
adopt our view, and the steps they need to follow to take action. Give them
those things in a clear, easily understandable way, and we will undoubtedly
find favor with the king.
The second rule is:
Spread ideas and move people. The audience
didn’t show up to read 60 page on screen dissertation. They’re there to see us,
to be inspired by our message, and witness the quality of our thought. We are
not giving our presentation to have another meeting. We are there to covey meaning. So,
consider including imagery that powerfully illustrates our point. Sometimes
moving images can inspire in a way that static slides cannot. A slow moving animation creates a sense of
nostalgia. And a thought-provoking video moves your audience in a way that can
change not only minds, but hearts.
The next rule is: Help
them see what we are saying. Half of the people in our audience are verbal
thinkers and the other half are visual. Combining minimal text with meaningful
visuals means that we’ll reach everyone. Brainstorm graphics that will
effectively communicate our message, and replace those words with a picture,
chart or diagram. Then apply a
consistent treatment to our graphics to give our whole presentation a unified
look so that the audience is attracted to, rather than distracted from the
message.
Rule number 4: Practice
design, not decoration. As tempting as it is to fill our slides with stuff,
often de-decorating is the best policy. Any writer or designer will tell that
90% of the creative process is destructive. If we have a main point, consider
putting just one word on the slide by itself.
Want them to remember a few items?
Don’t show everything at once.
Instead, show one item at a time.
Have a picture that accurately expresses the idea? Scale that picture so that it fills the
slide. Have a quote that says it
all? Let it say it and remove everything
else.
The last rule is:
Cultivate healthy relationships (with your slides and your audience). Letting
go is hard, we know. But don’t hide behind the slides. Breaking our dependence on our slides can do a world of good
for our relationship with the audience. Reduce the amount of text to a few key
words. Put the rest into your notes, and
then practice, practice, practice. Thinking of the slides as digital scenery,
allows us to connect eye-to-eye with our audience in a meaningful way.
So there are the rules.
But the question remains—Why go to all this trouble? Why not do it the way we
are used to? The answer is simple, because everyone else does it that way, too.
We need to stand apart and be different. When we apply these rules, and keep the audience’s needs top of mind, our presentation
will not only hold their attention, but also change the world. (Well, at least
our part of the world).
-this essay is made to fullfill college task-
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